Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The staff of the California Energy Commission will conduct a workshop to gather input from stakeholders on a draft outline of a Vehicle-Grid Integration Roadmap document on 8 October in Sacramento, California. solicit stakeholder feedback with regard to a draft vehicle-grid integration roadmap outline.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Charged : We’ve been covering your company for several years. What did you tell the folks in Sacramento?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

California’s grid is facing an era of rapid change. Framework of Electric Mobility - Infrastructure - Charging - Grid Nexus. million PEVs would add about 15,500 GWh of charging demand, equivalent to just about five% of California’s current total annual energy load. The California Energy Commission forecasts that 3.9

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Tesla owner Mark Gillund of Sacramento, California, will not be paying out of pocket for his solar and battery system’s monthly payment this month. With California dealing with a serious heatwave, the state’s grid has seen its own fair share of challenges as of late. And charges both our cars for free.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Partial Consent Decree, CARB moved forward the company’s plans for DC fast-charging in more metro areas, adding charging for regional routes, and strengthening highway networks. The company also will invest in rural Level 2 charging. Sacramento-Roseville-Arden-Arcade. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. San Diego-Carlsbad.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced 16 major US employers and two stakeholder groups have joined the Workplace Charging Challenge ( earlier post ), while another 3 US corporations have joined the National Clean Fleets Partnership. National Clean Fleets Partnership.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

These initial 125 EVs will be maintained at Ryder’s state-of-the-art maintenance facilities within the California, New York, and Illinois markets where EV charging stations are being installed. Ryder also plans to equip its maintenance facilities in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, and San Jose, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The vehicles are 2015-2016 models, with battery technology that enables an everyday range of about 80-90 miles—suited for in-town driving, and enough for travel between Davis and Sacramento. We are learning more about how to integrate electric vehicles with the grid. —Dahlia Garas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The second cycle investment will build on Electrify America’s initial priorities and expand into new areas, where the need for electric vehicle charging stations and technology are greatest or are most likely to be used regularly. Sacramento-Roseville-Arden-Arcade. Cycle 2 is a 30-month investment period, which begins in July 2019.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

Four of the top 15 markets are in California: San Francisco (1), Los Angeles (2), San Diego (7) and Sacramento (8). LEAF performs well because of a good charging infrastructure, a dense urban footprint and congestion. Honolulu, with 26 quick chargers, has one of densest charging grids in the US. Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

Appendix C outlines four areas of qualified investments: ZEV infrastructure (including the development and maintenance of ZEV charging stations), public awareness, increasing ZEV access, and a green city. Charging infrastructure. ARB may approve, partially approve or disapprove the Plan. liter Consent Decree.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

Hohm is also intended to help utility companies manage the added demands of electric vehicles on the electric grid. Increasing numbers of electric vehicles will have a significant impact on energy demand; the addition of an electric vehicle to a household could effectively double home energy consumption while the vehicle is charging.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

Coulomb Technologies, in partnership with Ford, Chevrolet and smart USA, will provide 4,600 free home and public ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles throughout the United States through the ChargePoint America program. Sacramento, Calif.; Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington DC. and Washington DC.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

More than 150 charging stations for EVs are now being installed in the State through Coulomb’s $37-million ChargePoint America Department of Energy program. The charging stations will be located in the Boston metropolitan area, primarily within the Route 495 Beltway. Cloud-Based ChargePoint Network service plans.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The California Energy Commission approved its first $10 million to fund Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) research and development (R&D) projects during its monthly business meeting today. The first hydrogen refueling station in Northern California was dedicated in West Sacramento.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The PHEV Ram 1500 pickups are part of a national demonstration fleet of 140 vehicles that will be used during the next three years to evaluate customer usage, drive cycles, charging, thermal management, fuel economy, emissions and impact on the region’s electric grid. Earlier post.). Albany, N.Y., and Charlotte, N.C.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The California Energy Commission awarded $227,000 to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) for a research project demonstrating how energy storage can be integrated into local microgrids. One system will be at SMUD’s Sacramento headquarters; the second will serve the Anatolia III SolarSmart Homes community in Rancho Cordova.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Coulomb Technologies, ECOtality, General Motors and others have been moving forward to install the charging stations as part of the Administration’s investments in US electric vehicle manufacturing and alternative vehicle infrastructure. Sacramento, Calif.; and manufactures its charging equipment in San José, Calif.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. It’s crucial that any operator have at least one person charged with the responsibility of coordinating all aspects of adding electric trucks to a fleet.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Charging patterns with (TOU) and without (RES) whole house time-of-use rate during summer weekdays at Progress Energy, one of the participating utilities. The work was done under the DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability’s (OE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG program). Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD).

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The proclamation coincides with the launch of the brand’s all-electric i5 and is supposed to incentivize customers into “aligning their vehicle charging with times when renewable energy is highest on the grid.” BMW believes this can be mitigated with ChargeForward by ensuring user charging times are carefully monitored and scheduled.&

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), along with several auto manufacturers, utilities, and regional transmission organizations, will demonstrate the Open Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) Platform software system, developed by EPRI and Sumitomo Electric Industries. Earlier post.). Auto manufacturers are American Honda Motor Co.;

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

The BMW ActiveE ( earlier post ) will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011 for $499 per month for 24 months with a down payment $2,250. BMW ActiveE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Nissan Motor Corporation has begun testing in Japan of a system to use electric vehicle technology to help power grids cope with peaks in demand. Demand response is a strategy to make power grids more efficient by modifying consumers’ power consumption in consideration of available energy supply. to 8:00 p.m. Earlier post.)

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held a rally in Sacramento Thursday outside the lobbying offices of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers to protest their continuing lawsuit against California's greenhouse gas legislation. It's about 90 miles from my house in San Francisco to the Capitol in Sacramento.) See my remarks below.)

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 1, 2008

. – July 22, 2008; The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) announced today a research and development collaboration with General Motors and 34 top utilities to facilitate integration of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles ( PHEVs ) into the grid, a key step in providing the nation’s drivers an alternative to petroleum fuels.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech. Val Miftakhov , also a member of the chapter, founded Electric Motorworks , where he first converted BMWs to electric and then moved onto manufacturing JuiceBox charging stations. Tesla licensed the technology.” And I would recommend Ian’s TedX talk.”

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

I participated in the Governor''s Office Conference Coast-to-Coast Workshop on E-Mobility in Sacramento sponsored by the governments of California and the Netherlands on Wednesday. For the past decade I''ve been driving the 91 miles to Sacramento without stopping to charge in a 2002 RAV4 EV. There weren''t.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In addition, four public workshops were held over the summer in Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento and San Francisco in an effort to consider comments prior to developing the draft. The release of the discussion draft update marks the beginning of a public comment period to help inform the Proposed Update to the Scoping Plan.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 10, 2009

AB 920 + AB 811 = Solar Powered Electric Cars & PV Powered Charging Stations. So rather than beat a dead horse, last week I went straight to the source and got in touch with Assemblyman Jared Huffman’s office up in Sacramento. AB 811 is already law and here in L.A. I think that will be our argument with the Governor.

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