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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

Charged EVs

Anyone who would deploy any kind of large-scale EV charging project needs to work closely (and early) with their local electrical utility. Since 2010, OUC, a municipally-owned public utility, has installed hundreds of public charging stations, some powered by solar arrays. Q&A with the Orlando Utilities Commission’s Peter Westlake.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.

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Greentech Media | The Bus With Plug and Play Batteries

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The company claims you can even get 50 miles per gallon, but full development is still underway. Editor-in-Chief Michael Kanellos cranked it up to around 15 miles an hour. Greentech Media Advertisement Fifty miles per gallon. Most buses get about three to five miles a gallon. For a car, it sounds impressive.

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Chipping away at the ICE

Electric Auto Association

When I launched our chapter 19 months ago, you could count the number of networked EV charging stations in the area on one hand. For example, when a historic downtown area is undergoing a revitalization, I make sure it’s widely known that EV charging stations bring more tourism to town and provide economic stimulus.

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