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Innovative Arizona Utility Program Rents Your Roof For Solar Power

Green Car Reports

And charging an electric car with renewable energy from solar panels remains the low-carbon ideal for many green-car buyers. Now, a new initiative in Arizona shows that it's possible for utilities and individual home solar.

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Lucid Motors factory, Euro fast-charging network, Mazda electric car: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, Lucid Motors selects Arizona as the location for the factory that will build its luxury electric car, four automakers collaborate on a DC fast-charging network for Europe, and Mazda executives indicate the Japanese automaker will launch an electric car in 2019. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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VW e-Golf Drive Report, Tesla In Arizona, Used Honda Insight Guide: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green CarReports: We drive VW''s first electric car to be sold in the U.S., All this and more on Green Car Reports. run down what you need to know if you want to buy an early Honda Insight, and dig deeper into GM''s new and more fuel-efficient engines.

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Testing Hydrogen Vs Electric Cars, Infiniti QX30 Concept Teased, Audi Buys Fuel-Cell Patents: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today we look at a way to test battery-electric cars against hydrogen fuel-cell cars, a teaser for an Infiniti Geneva Motor Show concept, and Audi''s purchase of patents for fuel-cell technology from Ballard Power Systems. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Charge your electric car at Best Buy

Green Cars News

Level two, J1722-compliant charging stations will be installed at 12 Best Buy stores in Tucson, Arizona; Phoenix, Arizona; San Diego, California; Los Angeles, California; and Seattle, Washington. They are expected to be in place by March, 2011.

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McDonald’s embraces electric cars

Green Cars News

Perhaps it won’t work quite like that, but a McDonald’s restaurant in Cary, North Carolina, will become the first location in the fast food restaurant chain in more than a decade to offer electric car recharging. According to Richards, customers have a dedicated place to park and recharge their vehicles.

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ECOtality reveals electric vehicle infrastructure plans

Green Cars News

As it prepares to move into the metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, area, ECOtality Inc has outlined its electric vehicle infrastructure plans at a Press conference. The company released electric vehicle charging maps showing potential locations for its Blink EV chargers while discussing the electric vehicle project’s progress.