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Missed Charge Station Opportunity in San Francisco

Plugs and Cars

ClipperCreek, an Auburn, CA based manufacturer of electric vehicle charging equipment, has just announced the shipment of its 5,000th unit. Some of those units are being paid for by a California Energy Commission grant to upgrade existing Avcon charging stations across California. What's the problem? Might look quite different.

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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers

Green Car Congress

Lane Transit District (LTD) in Oregon has awarded New Flyer a contract for 11 Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses, including seven ABB depot chargers to support electric bus infrastructure development. LTD has a longstanding commitment to sustainability.

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Charlotte Douglas International Airport to buy 5 Proterra electric buses; 9th airport

Green Car Congress

Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) has agreed to purchase five 35-foot Proterra Catalyst E2 electric buses and five 125 kW Proterra plug-in charging systems. Proterra charging systems utilize the universal J1772-CCS Type 1 charging standard, enabling buses, utility vehicles and cars to share the same chargers.

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Electric Car Charging Stations: 6 Easy Steps To Test Your Range Anxiety (Before Buying An EV)

EV Life

Electric Car Charging Stations. According to AAA research, the two biggest fears Americans have about switching to electric cars is not having enough electric car charging stations (58%) and that they’ll run out of charge (57%). According to a new AAA study, 95% of electric car drivers have never run out of charge.

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Tesla Autopilot abuser released from jail, buys new Tesla, rides in backseat again

Teslarati

Now, he is in a new Model 3 and riding around in the backseat once again after claiming that he’s so rich, he can buy a new Tesla every time the police arrest and release him from jail. I’m very rich,” 25-year old Param Sharma said to San Francisco’s KTVU on Wednesday. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) May 13, 2021.

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Peninsula Clean Energy and California Energy Commission propose $24M partnership to install EV chargers in San Mateo County

Green Car Congress

Peninsula Clean Energy, the California Energy Commission, and Center for Sustainable Energy are partnering to launch an incentive project in San Mateo County in 2020 to increase publicly available electric vehicle charging locations with investments potentially reaching $24 million. —Jan Pepper, PCE CEO.

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“Insanely frightening and incredibly cool”: What it is really like to catch a self-driving robo-taxi

EV Central

But it turns out there is one machine that becomes insanely frightening as soon as it exceeds walking speeds – a self-driving taxi, or AV (Autonomous Vehicle) as the cool folks in San Francisco, for whom they are already a way of life, refer to them. Because America.

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