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Recap: Exhibiting at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo and Honoring Our Customers

EV Connect

Among 200 clean vehicle and fleet exhibitors, EV Connect shared our robust clean vehicle fleet solution platform with close to 8,000 clean tech conference attendees. Having partnered with since 2014, Caltrans has over 300 connectors at 37 sites powering their light duty fleet in their maintenance and construction stations.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

Cars That Think

White was the first American chair of the International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems. He was an IEEE member for 60 years and presented several papers at the organization's conferences. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods. He left the Army with the rank of sergeant.

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CMU demo’ing Autonomous SRX in Washington this week

Green Car Congress

In the demonstration in DC, cameras in the vehicle will visually detect the status of traffic lights and respond appropriately. NSF has supported Rajkumar’s work on autonomous vehicles since 2005, but it is not the only project of this kind that NSF supports. Cho, Young-Woo Seo, B.V.K Autonomous driving Sensors Vehicle Systems'

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

The overarching question was not whether the light-duty transportation sector would electrify to a significant degree, but when. The nightmare scenario Darbee has is that on a very hot day, after businesses have been running operations, lights and air conditioning all day, people go home, turn the AC on or up, and plug their car in.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

One of the keys to TOD is to desegregate commercial and residential land use so people live near where they work and even if they have to commute to work the distributed nature housing and commercial avoids the overcrowding in one direction you experience with dedicated residential neighborhoods. The city will have two transit levels.

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

Charged EVs

For instance, in our jurisdiction, to install electric vehicle infrastructure, we don’t have to obtain approval from the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), whereas Duke and Florida Power & Light do. It’s probably a bunch of trucks that are operating in a gravel lot with a single hut and a light swinging in it and a computer, right?

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From Recreation to Everyday Transport: The Growing Appeal of E-Bikes

Plug in America

The cost of an e-bike ranges from $500 to thousands of dollars, with the average price around $2,500, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. For those of you who have yards and gardens, electric landscaping equipment is making inroads into neighborhoods nationwide. All of the passenger cars in the State.