CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 12, 2021

A new study has revealed that subsidies for electric bikes are more cost-effective than electric vehicle incentives when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the challenges in getting car shoppers to consider plug-in electric vehicles is the education required. Tesla attacked this problem head on, opening its stores in malls and other sites where potential future buyers could dip their toes in and start to learn about electric cars without being pressured to sign on the line.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 19, 2015

When it comes to electric-car charging, speed is typically as important as availability. Installing more charging stations is important, but it's generally thought that they need to charge a car as quickly as possible, to lessen any inconvenience to owners. DON'T MISS: Portland's.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 17, 2011

In what we see as a shrewd move to help keep Portland, Oregon at the forefront of the electric-car movement, the city has dedicated a full city block, called Electric Avenue, to electric vehicle charging.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 2, 2015

What's our new champion for the greenest sports car you can likely afford? And, who's built a plug-in hybrid with armor plating--and why? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, July 31, 2015.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Maven is now offering its first all-electric fleet of cars for use in the gig economy; 20 Chevrolet Bolt EVs are available for freelance drivers in Austin, Texas to earn money on their own schedules. Maven Gig vehicles are available for flat weekly rates that include the car, unlimited miles, insurance (minus deductibles) and maintenance.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 7, 2013

You see it all over: the meme that "electric cars are a sales failure." Yet California is experiencing shortages of electric cars, with many dealers saying they''ve entirely sold out of plug-in electric cars. Some Nissan dealers in Portland, Oregon, even say the Leaf electric car is now their best-selling passenger car.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 25, 2016

Since modern electric cars went on sale in volume five years ago, some cities have been more eager to promote them than others. Officials in those cities find electric cars attractive for their ability to reduce pollution,among other reasons.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Some auto companies have incorporated car sharing elements into their new business enterprises. New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2010

Portland State University (PSU) and its Oregon partners, including Portland General Electric, have been selected by Toyota as one of six groups nationally to demonstrate and evaluate the next-generation Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV). Portland State University will administer the program regionally.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) launched Project Get Ready , an initiative that emerged from its Smart Garage Summit in October 2008 and that is intended to help communities prepare for plug-in vehicles including full battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and converted hybrid or internal combustion vehicles.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 14, 2010

Oregon has been keenly competing with California for the title of America’s greenest state and now it has been rewarded for its efforts as it has been chosen as one the sites for Toyota’s Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle programme.

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EV Life

AUGUST 28, 2020

There’s never been more interest in electric cars. According to a recent study , the average American driver saves $1,117 per year on fuel and maintenance costs when they switch from a gas car to an electric one. One reason electric cars haven’t taken off yet: it isn’t easy. Narrow your electric car search.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 4, 2009

Cold Ironing is the term for plugging a ship’s electrical system into the on-shore grid to supply power so that the ship’s giant diesel engine can be turned off while it’s docked. of Portland, Ore., was plugged into what is billed as the world’s first shore-side electrical grid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

Ford plug-in hybrid owners are operating in electric mode nearly 60% of the time, according to new aggregate data collected from Ford’s MyFord Mobile app. The top five most active regions for charge station searches are San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and the northeast corridor. More daily total miles. More daily trips.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The pilot program offers mobile charging for free to AAA members in San Francisco, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Orlando, Nashville, Charlotte, Denver, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Avon, Peabody and West Springfield, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, and Bend and Portland, Oregon. Office Plug-Ins. Clean Fleet Report agrees completely.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

With more than 750,000 units sold over the year, the number of electric vehicles in the global parc—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)—surpassed 2 million units in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

The four new chargers added to Oregon’s current network of 815 DC fast chargers will increase fast-charger availability by 15% in the Portland metro area and 5% statewide. The 2016 Soul EV is Kia’s first all-electric car to be sold in the US. Of the 20 dealers in the region, 12 will be located in Washington and eight in Oregon.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. Portland, Ore.; 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.;

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. Project lead.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2012

The Vehicle Emissions and Fuel Cost Calculator utilizes such information as vehicle type, fuel type and traffic conditions (stop-and-go city traffic or on the highway, for instance), along with the geographic region in which the car will be used to generate information about the efficiency of a fleet. EcoBoost V6. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Nearly 22,000 people in North America have contacted Nissan since the company unveiled the car in August. Our goal is to confirm at least 20,000 reservations for Nissan LEAF by the time we deliver the world's first mass-market zero-emission car in late 2010. Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Nissan North America, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

The City of Hillsboro, Oregon plans to deploy 16 Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for plug-in and electric vehicles. Hillsboro is located 15 miles outside of Portland and is the home to more than 90,000 residents.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Things have been nuts this week, but I did get a chance to see the Nissan Leaf come to Portland today. Here's Nissan's spokesperson who graciously answered all our geeky questions about the car. Here's the requisite photo op with the Leaf showing the charging plugs at the front of the car.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 28, 2017

Sometimes it's applied to the challenge of electric-car charging stations: which comes first, sales of the cars or installation of public charging to support them? It's an old cliche used to indicate an unsolvable problem: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, Jeff Allen isn't having any of it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The company also provides one of the charging stations on Portland’s “Electric Avenue” SPX Services works on EV projects with utility companies, cities and other organizations, and is an automotive diagnostics supplier to OEMs globally. That’s really what they did with [Portland’s] Electric Avenue.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Beyond the founders, several new companies have already joined the Association, including Efacec, Portland General Electric, SemaConnect, and BTC Power. —Simon Lonsdale, Chair of the Board of ROEV.

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Cars That Think

MAY 25, 2022

One of the biggest challenges in a World Building competition that asked teams to imagine a positive future with superintelligent AI: Make it plausible. She sees the contest partly as a way to provide hopeful visions of the future. Yelizarova says that another motivation for the contest was to see what sorts of ideas people would come up with. “If

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 10, 2017

Around the world, roughly 1 billion vehicle owners stop at fuel stations and keep cars powered by fossil fuels running—and have done for a century now. Breaking with routine and tradition is never easy, especially when it comes to buying, owning, and operating a vehicle powered by an internal-combustion engine.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 30, 2017

Oregon is a state that punches well above its weight in promoting and adopting zero-emission vehicles and plug-in electric cars. Smaller than California, it offers a laboratory where EV makers can try out new programs and experiment with new marketing and charging programs to see how they work.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 23, 2016

Now, there's the Jolt EV, the third Chevrolet electrical car. First, there was the Volt. Then came the Bolt, later renamed the Bolt EV. At least, that's what appeared on a website a few weeks ago—the all-electric Chevrolet Jolt EV, a sporty two-door coupe offering more than 230 miles of estimated range.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

There are multiple interesting aspects to the vehicle, including GM’s rationale for offering fast charging as an option (it’s not to go across country), but one of the most manifest when driving the car (aside from the “Wheee!” of those 400 lb-ft in action) is how smooth and quiet the drive is. That results in actual torque. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! More on Electric Cars: It’s On!

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Unlike individual car owners, fleet operators know exactly how many miles their vehicles travel, and they aren’t likely to be swayed by questions of styling or coolness factors—if you can demonstrate that an EV will save them money, then you should be able to make a sale. In the real world, things haven’t been that simple.

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Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2017

When it comes to policy efforts aimed at promoting electric cars, the focus is usually on private passenger vehicles. That includes the thousands of cars and light trucks in the municipal fleets of large cities. But to cut carbon emissions in a meaningful way, policymakers will have to look at other types of vehicles as well.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

When it comes to raw numbers of electric cars sold, California leads. However, just to the north, the small state of Oregon has long been a pioneer and a trendsetter when it comes to electric mobility.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

A couple weeks ago, I read about the Rocky Mountain Institute’s gathering of EV interests in Portland for “Smart Garage.&# But the key problem remains the lack of cars in the showroom. is where I feel Plug In America should be involved. Amory Lovins. No one else represents the voice of EV users like we do.

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