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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 EV Charging Can Drive Shoppers to Your Business Spending at clothing and clothing-accessory stores grew by more than 200% year over year. EV sales globally are expected to hit 5 million in 2021.

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3 Pieces of Good News for EVs in 2023

Clean Fleet Report

Today’s EVs can travel farther on a single charge and manufacturers are working hard even more efficient new models. They’re also working with Sony on a jointly designed model that will show up soon. For example, some schools have begun to convert to electric buses, which help combat climate change. Where to charge!

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EPA finalizes strongest-ever truck rule to save billions in health & fuel costs

Baua Electric

billion tons, but had to re-do the baseline of these calculations due to California’s strong truck rules , which will reduce overall emissions by a huge chunk (both in California and other states). We need to electrify transportation, and soon, and we simply aren’t doing enough to fight climate change.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

In California, regulators separated generation from distribution and sold 40 percent of installed capacity to newly created independent power producers that specialized in peaking power. In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

The new digital meters are being installed by the thousands in many utility districts, and in SoCal Edison’s case, they expect to be fully installed by 2012. The grid today could handle many millions of EVs charging late at night when rates are lowest. To be honest, we’ll be very lucky to see that many.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

Bill Ford on the prospects for EVs. At a media dinner at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last month, Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford made some observations on the prospects for electric vehicles: “ Here we are today now, embarking upon something which is very different for our industry.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia.

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