Creative Greenius

JANUARY 18, 2015

I do it because I love to ride my bike and because here in the South Bay – which happens to be the best climate in the whole world in which to ride your bike – we need lots more zero emission people-powered bike trips to replace car trips, especially fossil fuel powered cars. Our obesity and diabetes rates need it too.

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EV Life

APRIL 7, 2023

Buying a new car is one of the most significant purchases you’ll likely make in your life, so you want to make sure you’re getting the best deal available. Qualified residents can receive grants of up to $5,000 in buy-down assistance and special financing, plus free vehicle charging and installation. Finance your Tesla for less.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2018

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2019

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jack Rosebro, founder of Perfect Sky in Los Angeles [and a contributor to Green Car Congress ], spoke of the need for government policy makers to move beyond incremental changes that are not providing enough incentive for the market to produce alternatives to oil as the almost exclusive source of energy for road and rail transportation.

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EV Match

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As if one partner would buy two new cars – a significant purchase – for her and him as a complete surprise. So if you’re finding yourself persuaded to buy a car this holiday season, let it be electric. This podcast episode from Gimle Media explains why EVs are undeniably better for the climate.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Once out of the Los Angeles area, we took CA 123 through Fillmore and Santa Paula, then headed to Ojai on CA 150 through the Topatopa Mountains. For most people this is more than they drive dally, which means they will rarely be stopping to buy gasoline. A quiet runner.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

For the current fiscal year, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, to help the state meet its climate-change goals. The fueling stations will be located in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles County) and Mission Viejo (Orange County).

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Alternative Fuels Los Angeles Hydrogen Fuel 170

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

No one needs to buy another new gas powered car. Keep your old car, or buy an inexpensive used car. The Plug-Ins are coming and you should wait till they get here before buying your next new car. Otherwise you’ll just be buying a dinosaur that you’ll have to pay to convert or dispose of. Save your money.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In California, several utilities offer incentive programs to buy down the capital equipment cost for their customers, a model other states should consider emulating.”. Funding of $90 million for the project came from the California Climate Investments, which contributed $44.8 Onward and upward. million of Cap-and-Trade money.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

For his sequel, Paine’s been gauging the mood at the now-much-gloomier GM headquarters, visiting geothermal-powered and EV-friendly Iceland, and test driving his brand new Tesla in Los Angeles. A: I know that Mitsubishi, Nissan and a lot of smaller companies all will have cars available to buy in 2009. And he was right.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We’d have liked knobs for climate control rather than having to use the central screen—we ended up using Android voice, but not every buyer will want to do that. Those are Los Angeles, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. On the road—disappointing for a $50K-plus EV in 2021—the XC40 Recharge proved inefficient.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re going to go to, let’s say, San Francisco-Los Angeles round trip, you’re going to make three or four round trips per day, and every trip is going to be substantially depleting your battery to the maximum capacity. But that means that I can’t buy from just any supplier. That has its own problems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Funding priorities through the ARFVT Program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climate change policies. These charging sites will be located at 7-Eleven convenience stores, and will provide a charging network in Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. A-Z Bus Sales, Inc.

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EV Life

MARCH 7, 2023

Qualified California residents of disadvantaged communities (DACs) can receive grants of up to $5,000 in buy-down assistance and special financing, plus a free vehicle charger and installation. You can use your low-interest EV Climate Loan to purchase your Chevy Bolt EV at nearly any dealership. Apply your savings anywhere.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

inch digital instrumentation, 9-inch HD touchscreen, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility , wireless phone charging, a 12-speaker Bose premium audio system, power-adjustable heated front seats, heated steering wheel, dual-zone climate control, parking sensors, and seat upholstery made out of bio-based leather.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 27, 2006

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

In the 15 months that have passed since I wrote the following, ALL the climate change news has gone from bad, to worse, to much worse than that. For the past three months I’ve been working night and day as the Chairman of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group. The truth is George W.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

When we took delivery of the Mirai, the dash gauge read 345 miles of estimated range, which means we could have driven from Los Angeles to the Silicon Valley and had a few miles to spare. There is wireless phone charging, selectable eight-color ambient lighting, 3-zone automatic climate control system and a fixed dual panoramic roof.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Simple math says we possibly could have driven 316 miles, which is just 36 miles shy of Los Angeles to the Silicon Valley. If you are considering buying a midsize sedan, no longer want to be tethered to the gasoline umbilical cord, then quite possibly a Mirai could be a good fit. inch touchscreen.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In 340 miles of driving through Southern California counties of Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles, we averaged 4.1 Clever touches Kia has a clever design to go between the dual-zone climate and infotainment controls. miles per kilowatt-hour (kWh), which is very efficient. The liquid-cooled 64.8

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

Equally, the state has long had a subsidy plan to help low-income residents buy EVs. As one CARB member has stated , their concern is climate, whereas solving power generation is the responsibility of the CPUC. Nichols projected on the screen, in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Harry decided to forego buying an EV, but he remains open to purchasing one if both the affordability and charging issues are better addressed. “I One was affordability.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Under Hoff were research laboratories in Sunnyvale, Los Angeles, and Grass Valley, Calif.; Hoff then had to choose between convincing Tramiel that he could play a role in a narrowly focused company uninterested in funding futuristic research, and allowing Warner to buy out his contract. At Atari, chaos reigned. Cambridge, Mass.;

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The first wave of electric car buying is expected to begin around December, when Nissan introduces the Leaf, a five-passenger electric car that will have a range of 100 miles on a fully charged battery and be priced for middle-class families. “We In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., They cost drivers on average only 2.5

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Yeah, go buy a 59k Tesla that can go 200 miles… then your screwed, sure go park and get a hotel and charge it for 8 hours… then go another 200 miles, great for long trips i’m sure. Most people would have bought a new car years ago, but I didn’t because nothing worth buying was on the market. — Ken Smith 4.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

You can buy it now. How many millions have they spent to develop a vehicle that you cant buy, that no one is prepared to service and that most Americans wouldnt want if you gave it to them? Minus two when people realize that if theyre going to get stuck in traffic, they might as well do so in the climate controlled comfort of a car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

People will likely not buy plug-ins without big federal tax breaks." ( Reuters ) 11/29/06 [In response to GMs announcement at the LA Auto Show], Ford Group marketing manager Cisco Codina said the answer for now is full hybrids, like the latest version of its Ford Escape hybrid SUV unveiled at the show. ( People wont buy a full car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. And with EV maintenance you are less exposed to being ripped off buy the ICE car repairman. — Jeff U 6.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Posted by: J-Bob | Apr 13, 2009 4:48:10 PM "Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 21, 2014

I’m guessing Bloomfield thinks he’s buying a Ben Allen who would NOT be Waxman-like on the issues. But this election season in my own South Bay of Los Angeles just keeps getting curious and curiouser – and it’s impossible for your friendly neighborhood Greenius not to note and comment on these curiosities.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to a report from the Los Angeles Times , people living in California’s northern rural school districts don’t see EVs working as school buses. However, other companies are still struggling and Blue Bird has been crystal clear that the range of electric buses can vary depending on climate, load, and other external factors.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. But in the current economic climate their support has dropped a notch. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Market Background Policy.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Ironically, Governor Abbott targeted renewable energy just as The New York Times was writing that Texas’ grid trouble is a sign of disruption to come as climate change induces more and more extreme weather events. If utilities don’t meet a goal, they buy ZECs from the government. Credit: Los Angeles Times.

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