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THINK Releases US EV-Ready Cities Index

Green Car Congress

The THINK EV-Ready Cities Index was presented by THINK CEO Richard Canny at the Electric Drive Transportation Association Annual Conference and Meeting at the Washington Auto Show. San Diego, Portland and Sacramento were rated fifth, sixth and seventh putting four cities in California in the top-15 index. Sacramento.

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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. Here's one of the announcements that came out of the conference : EPRI, GM, 34 Utilities Collaborate to Advance Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles PALO ALTO, Calif. Sacramento Municipal Util. and Southern Company. Aptera, of Carlsbad, Calif.,

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Oakland, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City. The press conference will be at 3:00 pm at Austin City Hall. As fleet orders increase, city governments around the country also continue to join the coalition. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid. Howard’s team is holding a conference on June 24th for city managers throughout the county that I’ll be attending. Ted Flanigan, EcoMotion.

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Parking EVs In Driveways and on the Street: Implications for EV Charging

EV Adoption

Thigpen at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and published in The Journal of Transport and Land Use (Note: study PDF will automatically download) estimated that 37% of the households in the Sacramento, CA market they studied do not use their garage for parking cars. But an estimated 75.5%