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Cali to Colorado with kids: Our EV road trip adventure

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With the comprehensive Supercharger network available to Tesla owners (which will soon be made available to all EV drivers), and other rapidly growing charging networks, including our very own peer-to-peer nationwide EVmatch platform , road tripping with your EV is not only possible, it can be really fun.

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Four Next-Generation Fuel Cell Buses Introduced in Hartford

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Only the Greater Oakland/San Francisco, Calif., CTTransit is building a new garage to store up to six fuel cell buses, and the agency also plans to install a hydrogen fueling station on-site. The new buses will be operated by Connecticut Transit (CTTransit) and are equipped with UTC Power fuel cell systems. Earlier post.).

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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The pilot is being offered to select Ford Credit customers in California—including Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco; as well as in Portland, Oregon; Chicago and Washington, D.C. Availability of zero-emission Focus Electric vehicles. The bike folds and stores inside any Ford vehicle, where it can be charged while stowed.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

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and the contractor says, “We can’t do it, because you’ve already used up all your available circuit capacity on that site.” “We don’t get deployed where the grid is available—we get deployed where people actually want charging. And then the unit of energy thereafter is zero. This is not theory.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the US. billion available for highway, transit, bridge, rail, shipyard and airport construction and repairs nationwide. AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. The DOT is making $48.1 Of that, $26.5

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