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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, New York City, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. By Jim Motavalli for the New York Times. A $2,000 value!).

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Use These Exciting EV Charging Incentives to Fund Your Commercial Charging Station

EV Match

These incentives are offered by the federal government, state governments, local jurisdictions, and electric utility companies in hopes of boosting the installation volume of EV chargers across the nation. The grant covers all costs with the project including permitting, installation, and even five years of operation.

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Tesla Tax Credit: How Californians Can Save $15,000 with EV Credits and Rebates

EV Life

In this article, we’re going to show you how California residents can save over $15,000 on Tesla Model 3 and Model Y by taking advantage of available EV tax credits, rebates, and incentives. Qualified residents can receive grants of up to $5,000 in buy-down assistance and special financing, plus free vehicle charging and installation.

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California Dump Truck Owners Association sues ARB to overturn Truck Bus emissions rule

Green Car Congress

Air Resources Board, was filed in the US District Court, Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division, on 11 February 2011. The Truck and Bus rule requires truck owners to install diesel exhaust filters on their rigs, with nearly all vehicles upgraded by 2014. Earlier post.).

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. Charging infrastructure installs vary, a lot. The time and cost of installing the needed charging infrastructure for electric trucks can vary enormously.

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Parking EVs In Driveways and on the Street: Implications for EV Charging

EV Adoption

But I recently came across an article and data that suggests that perhaps more than one-third of US households with garages don’t actually park their cars in them. Said another way, only 63% of the households studied in the Sacramento market used their garages to park or repair their cars and trucks. The study by Jamey M. His solution.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid. First of all he’s already gone where I want to go by installing solar, back in 2007. Or waiting for do-nothing local governments to do the right thing.

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