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DOE AVTA Completes 1M Miles of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Testing

Green Car Congress

In a recent talk on AVTA for Oregon EV planners, Jim Francfort from INL made the following macro observations from the testing results so far: Driver behavior, charging frequency, and environmental conditions have significant impacts on electric drive vehicles’ 80-85% energy efficiencies and mpg results. Oregon E.V. AVTA PHEV testing.

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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

Cars That Think

There are technical reasons that contributed to faster repairs in Manhattan, but in general the neighborhoods that waited the longest to have their power restored tended to be poorer and less white. The recent record-breaking heat in Oregon and Washington state, for example, claimed more than 200 lives. COVID-19 changed all that.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association. While people can purchase neighborhood electric vehicles today for about $10K, they only have a top speed of 35 miles an hour or so, essentially glorified golf-carts.

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The lowly refuse truck offers the perfect use case for electrification

Charged EVs

Again, it really depends, but in the neighborhood of between 70 and 100 miles. Route length really depends, but in the neighborhood of between 70 and 100 miles. We have two options available for the battery pack on the MD Electric, a 150 kWh pack and a 240 kWh pack. That can extend your range by 20%, 30%. And they have been.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. Several thousand Leafs made in Japan will be delivered to metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, Washington state, Oregon and Tennessee.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

Baua Electric

At Portland International Airport, in Oregon, there’s a movie theater screening short films by creators from the Pacific Northwest ( located after security in Concourse C). “Sometimes I look at their books, sometimes not, but it’s a part of the airport that never feels rushed.”

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California announces it will ban the sale of New Gasoline Cars

Setec Powerr

Thirteen other states, including Oregon, New York and Colorado, typically follow California’s auto emissions standards, which are already the most stringent in the country. CARB also estimates that as more zero-emission vehicles become available, the price to consumers of electric cars will fall. Washington Gov.