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An Overview of Charging Incentives in Oregon

EV Connect

According to statistics from Portland General Electric, the average annual fuel cost for an electric vehicle is approximately $500, compared to around $1,500 for a gasoline-powered vehicle. Work with EV Connect Oregon offers a range of incentives to promote the adoption of electric vehicles and the installation of EV charging infrastructure.

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Chevrolet to invest $40M in clean energy projects

Green Car Congress

This is an opportunity to connect with Chevy customers through clean energy projects that directly impact them. Chevy will be making investments through third-party organizations such as Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Ore. —Dan Akerson, GM CEO.

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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

Cars That Think

The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no Internet connection required. The most capable AI models today lean heavily on data centers packed with expensive AI hardware that users must access over a reliable Internet connection. Even so, AI models accessed remotely can of course be slow to respond.

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Air Quality: Easy to Measure, Tough to Fix

Cars That Think

Portland, Ore., Sold for US $299, the View Plus can gauge seven critical metrics: radon , particulates, carbon dioxide, humidity, temperature, volatile organic compounds, and air pressure. I had the monitor installed, working, and connected to the Airthings app less than 10 minutes after it arrived at my doorstep, in June.

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World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

Cars That Think

The Future of Life Institute , a nonprofit that focuses on existential threats to humanity, organized the contest and is offering a hefty prize purse of up to $140,000, to be divided among multiple winners. The first, a solo effort by Rebecca Rapple of Portland, Ore., Those AIs, in so many words, are not AGI.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. Rustam Kocher: It is. It’s called Electric Island.

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Non-stop car insider 

Electric Auto Association

Kirsch’s primary focus in both organizations has been on educating the public about driving electric. In fact, when contacted for this profile, Kirsch was test driving a Rivian through the mountains of Oregon and Washington in anticipation of the display of the vehicle at ECI’s events in Portland and Eugene.