Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

A coalition of 13 leading industrial companies and electric utilities, including General Motors Company, The Dow Chemical Company and Duke Energy, issued a white paper recommending the installation of up to 300 GWh of distributed energy storage (DES) systems around the country by 2022. value proposition. value proposition.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 7, 2008

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2018

For the second year running, Los Angeles is inviting innovative and environmentally-friendly entrepreneurs from around the world to push the envelope on urban mobility solutions from ride-sharing and zero-emission electric bikes and scooters to self-driving vehicles and flying cars. Revenues of up to $5 million.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Last mile trucks like Amazon’s are moving to EVs Almost all of those trucks run on diesel, but change is coming. More and more, especially the smaller “last mile” trucks, are powered by electricity. FedEx, Amazon and others are making the switch to electric power, as are school buses and garbage trucks. Even the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Let me tell you about it. Installing the 5.2

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 11, 2023

Personal: I Built the Ultimate Checklist for a Successful Road Trip Gear Up to Hit the Road and Not Look Back This article may contain affiliate links. It was a godsend, particularly for those times when we were in out-of-the-way places with limited access to electricity.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

42 months and now all mine. It’s now what’s know as an orphan car—no longer in production as GM moves to full electrics. I love several things about the Volt that tipped my decision to buy out the lease and keep on driving—mostly on electricity: The Lectron charger has style and speed. This post may contain affiliate links.

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Electrek

JULY 23, 2024

Today’s Green Deals are focused on more personal ventures out of the house and beyond – whether that entails keeping to the neighborhood, wandering around town, or heading off beyond to spend some relaxing time in nature.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 29, 2009

And I have never been more all now or totally happening. In this case for GRID Alternatives at a low income home in my old neighborhood in Long Beach, California. Thanks to them, a family’s electricity is now solar-powered. One of the great things about this display was how people all day long were touching the panels.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 18, 2022

When Weston Hills Country Club resident Glenn Gordon took delivery of his Rivian R1T, he did not expect the all-electric truck to become a pain point between himself and his HOA. The Rivian R1T has become a point of attraction of sorts in his neighborhood, partly because there is really no other vehicle like it in the area.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

As one example in the opening plenary panel session, Peter Darbee, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation described the opportunity and challenges from his utility’s point of view. The impact from plug-in electric vehicles on the grid could be very substantial. kW—about three times the load.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

It’s all happening excruciatingly too slowly of course, and at the pace we’re currently on we are quite simply as doomed as doomed can be – but in the meantime it IS starting to happen and the first signs of momentum are now starting to show. Or waiting for do-nothing local governments to do the right thing.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2009

And for the first time ever it’s an all green Fiesta Weekend in Hermosa! It’s because all the buses and generators involved in the Fiesta will be fueled with clean-burning biodiesel, made from used vegetable oil donated by local restaurants Patrick Molloy’s, Sangria, and Café Boogaloo. Bravo, Mr. Montgomery.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. However, heavy-duty electric trucks from traditional makers have started to hit the market. Publicity magnet Tesla said it delivered its first battery-electric Semi tractor on December 1. Put another way: Plan first, order trucks second.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The thumb drive was all that—and more. With all these advantages, it effectively ended the era of the floppy disk. $7 MB of data. Why aren’t they more famous?

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 12, 2021

EVHybridNoire members at the Atlanta National Drive Electric Week event. With gas prices going up and the cost of electric cars coming down, there are real economic benefits to driving electric,” said April Bolduc, EAA President. Every neighborhood deserves clean air and the transition to EVs is the quickest way to get there.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Fleet Solutions: ReachNow Fleet Solutions will offer residential members an unparalleled level of convenience with exclusive use of BMW i3 electric vehicles and BMW 3 Series that remain onsite at select apartment and condominium buildings or complexes. The ReachNow Ride scheduling feature will be widely available to members in early 2017.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

Our neighborhood is called the “Hollywood Riviera&# because of its beautiful hillside homes with idyllic ocean views framed by palm trees. We both know that 20% of California’s electric power is used just to move water from the North down here to the South and all the other places it goes.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

As our planet’s atmosphere overheats because the greenhouse gas firewall we’ve built by burning fossil fuels works so damn well, there is one secret weapon we can all still whip out if we want to fight back and try to save ourselves from frying. Our daily use of electricity during this two year period has gone from 22.55

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. Oh how it dwarfs the normal sized other homes all around it. I want it to be all of California. And this is boring.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. Indeed, adopting electric vehicles will go a long way in helping to improve environmental outcomes. Here we’ll show you in greater detail why that is.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

AUGUST 17, 2007

One person suggested I send the adapter back to ElectroAuto since the cone was flawed. After re-attaching all the other wires and mechanical cables, I fired up the AC motor again and spun it up to 5500 RPM. I never get up to 5000 RPM if I stay in 2nd gear in neighborhoods and 3rd gear on the freeway. The car still vibrates!!

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Baua Electric

JUNE 14, 2024

In fact, these days, they’re more commonly found zipping through neighborhood streets or joy-riding around beach communities. Once powered by polluting combustion engines, these days, most golf carts use quiet and emissions-free electric motors, charging up their batteries for mere pennies and offering plenty of around-the-town range.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 18, 2024

One of the main benefits of an electric vehicle is in the convenience of owning and charging the car. If the parking space is the units own space, the new rules say it should be on a separate circuit wired to that units electrical panel when feasible (a phrase that will likely do some heavy lifting in power-sharing situations).

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

BMW: AI, AR, Digitalized Mobility and Remote Controlled Valet Parking BMW sees in-car gaming as a coming trend BMW was all about the digital customer experience at this year’s CES. Timing: BMW says all these technologies will be become available over the course of 2024. Timing: Roll-out through 2024.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The electricity was faulty, forcing my children to use a flashlight to climb a steep stairwell, and the Wi-Fi didnt work, requiring us to spend about $200 on international data. It was a smart move keeping all communications in writing too. For workers to come fix the Wi-Fi, we were instructed to leave the key in a lockbox.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. It is, as the cliche puts it, where the rubber meets the road, and the road is the street I live on. The Green L.A.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 24, 2025

Automotive Tech Moves Onward at CES 2025 CES, shorthand for the Consumer Electronic Show, has become a key event for the announcement of automotive news, all of it with a technology focus. Both 0 Series models are targeting a 300-mile all-electric driving range with 15%-80% fast charging in under 15 minutes. We only live in it.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

Members of the Denver Electric Vehicle Council tour the Xcel Energy Cherokee power plant. David McNeil first joined the Denver Electric Vehicle Council (DEVC) , a chapter of the Electric Auto Association, soon after its founding in 1974, but he’s never owned a Tesla, a Chevrolet Bolt, or any other likely suspects.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 21, 2023

The project required over 1,650 in person-hours to be completed. The church noted that Tesla’s investment would yield more than $285,000 in electricity saving over the next ten years. When equity and justice for all is the goal, we all win. May this be the first of many.” ” she added.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 26, 2023

It plans to support this with plans to establish more EV charging infrastructure throughout all five boroughs. Uber CEO sets deadline for drivers to move away from gas cars With ride-hail drivers classified as independent contractors who use their personal vehicles to drive, convincing them to buy or lease a new electric car may not be easy.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

This narrative could be found all over the CPUC’s NEM 3.0 Affordable Clean Energy for All , a coalition of groups that include open NEM 3.0 backers like Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric, has been particularly active in pushing the idea that NEM 2.0

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

Photo: Highland Fleets Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) announced nearly $1 billion in grants to replace gas heavy-duty vehicles and school buses with electric vehicles. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 15, 2021

We have been telling you the benefits and advantages of electric vehicles and the positive impact they are going to make on our economy and environment. Facts such as The Tesla stock being the ‘HOT’ one in the market right now, Elon Musk rises to the richest person in the world, Governments providing incentives for electric vehicles , etc.

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Baua Electric

JULY 23, 2024

Today’s Green Deals are focused on more personal ventures out of the house and beyond – whether that entails keeping to the neighborhood, wandering around town, or heading off beyond to spend some relaxing time in nature. You can also find the updated Razor Rambler 20 electric minibike for $999 that extends its travel range to 16.6

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 12, 2021

EVHybridNoire members at the Atlanta National Drive Electric Week event. With gas prices going up and the cost of electric cars coming down, there are real economic benefits to driving electric,” said April Bolduc, EAA President. Every neighborhood deserves clean air and the transition to EVs is the quickest way to get there.”

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