Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Put the bumper sticker and your car and let everyone know.).

Plug-in 100

Plug-in Al Gore Plug Gore 100

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

There are already spaces in New York City and Los Angeles, and there are now two in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I’m located. The newest Polestar Space just opened in Silicon Valley, at the Westfield Valley Fair, 2855 Stevens Creek Boulevard, San Jose. There’s a second location in Corte Madera in Marin County.

Volvo 81

Volvo San Francisco Google All-Electric 81

Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

In downtown San Jose, Coulomb Technologies CEO Richard Lowenthal demonstrated how the… (Coulomb). Coulomb envisions a landscape transformed by cutting-edge charging stations — a kind of “smart grid&# of Web-networked stations that will communicate with drivers about their availability. By Scott Duke Harris.

Charging 140

Charging San Jose Re-Charge 140

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Same truth of engineers who have actually talked to real drivers is in evidence with the BMW Mini-E. Too bad BMW isn’t planning on building and selling this car for real. The eBox above from AC Propulsion is sending power to and from the grid right there on the Long Beach Convention Center floor.

i-MiEV 170

i-MiEV 2009 Plug-in Volt 170