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Tesla Is Now A Dominant Charging Network On Three Continents For Most Cars

CleanTechnica EVs

US-centric car and EV media has been consumed recently with news that Ford, then GM, and now likely Stellantis (or at least the Jeep and Chrysler brands) are going to be installing Tesla charging plugs in their vehicles instead of anything else. Mercedes-Benz is assessing it too.

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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

Cars That Think

We will need a lot of workforce to install and maintain these facilities at the front lines, which are not always well suited to humans. However, there’s a shortage of roboticists tackling climate change, due to a lack of awareness of necessary and urgent applications. Why aren’t there more roboticists working on climate change?

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Los Angeles Mayor Announces Southern California Regional Plug-in Electric Vehicle Plan

Green Car Congress

If we are to be at the forefront of tackling climate change, reducing emissions from the automobile must be front and center. Cities will work to streamline the process for installation of new charging infrastructure including local city permitting and inspections. to help encourage adoption of PEVs. cents per kWh (6pm to 2am).

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California Energy Commission awards more than $15M to advance biofuels, plug-in and V2G research

Green Car Congress

The program, created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), provides approximately $100 million annually to encourage the development and use of new vehicle technologies and alternative and renewable fuels to help attain the state's climate change policies. Villa Ford Inc. Earlier post.)

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[PRESS RELEASE] POLITICAL PARTIES – LET’S BACK EV POLICIES TO SAVE NEW ZEALAND MONEY

Drive Electric

By a margin of five to one, Kiwis say they are concerned about climate change and want the government to help people convert to less polluting vehicles. Finding sites to install charging stations is a challenge, and it can be prohibitive to connect to the network under current settings.

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Feature: Bridging the EV Affordability Gap

Clean Fleet Report

The number of plug-in electric cars nearly doubled from 40 to more than 70 vehicles this year, including attractive SUV crossovers in the $40,000 range like the Ford Mustang Mach-E and the Volkswagen ID4. They could have 5-10 different incentive applications to manage, as well as needing to install a home charger.

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The Benefits of EV Charging Stations for Businesses: A Smart Move As the World Re-opens

EV Connect

After seeing the pandemic’s effect on vehicle emissions and their contribution to climate change, though — a drop of roughly 2.4 Business owners who ignore this trend could be leaving money on the table, especially with incentives available for installing EV charging infrastructure at your place of business.