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How EV Charging Stations Can Help Your Business Attract and Retain Employees

EV Connect

Daily Commutes Not only have many workers gotten used to working remotely (thus avoiding the fuel costs associated with gas-powered vehicles), but gas prices have also risen by 42.52% over the past year. Charging at work also means that employees can skip the installation (and public charging) and juice up their EV at work.

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What the Nissan Leaf Has Taught Us About Natural Disaster Recovery

Blink Charging

The Leaf models were used as portable power stations , with enough juice to power the average Japanese home for four days, power 6,200 smartphones, or run 100 elevator round trips in a 48-story building. . After the successful use of the Leaf to help keep the power on in hospitals, their utility expanded to homes and businesses.

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

Cars That Think

Some observers thought V2G could prevent the kinds of price spikes and rolling blackouts then plaguing the Golden State. Major utilities were compelled to purchase high-cost peaking power, and because retail prices were capped, they could not pass their costs on to consumers.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit.

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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For on-the-go juice ups, the idea is to exchange your dead battery for a fresh one owned by Better Place. House Dems Unveil Climate Plan: Carbon Cuts, National RPS and More $$$ said on March 31st, 2009 at 1:16 pm Without accessories running, the Tesla Roadster consumes 275 Wh/mi of energy from a battery. might be achievable.

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Al Muratsuchi Votes To Kill Community Choice Then Finds Out He Was Duped & Calls Me To Apologize

Creative Greenius

They also blow away the restrictions the investor-owned utilities place on solar and pay rooftop solar power generators a retail price for the extra energy they produce. AND they will help generate tens of thousands of good, local jobs. I’m sure the generous union health insurance will cover all the costs.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Reductions in Emissions. Lomborg says.