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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

as well as 600 universities throughout the country. Each vehicle has a home location: a reserved parking space located on a street, driveway, or neighborhood parking lot in the member’s area, to which it must be returned at the end of the reservation. Hertz has 8,500 locations in 150 countries. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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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

As one example in the opening plenary panel session, Peter Darbee, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation described the opportunity and challenges from his utility’s point of view. Dania Ghantous, Vice President, Technology and Battery Development, Imara Corporation. Vehicle to grid is further out, he said.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica.

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

Charged EVs

If someone only spends $100 with me yearly to charge their vehicle at one of my high-speed chargers, I’m still probably going to see in the neighborhood of an additional $400 or $500 in home charging. We took a charging hub live in July that is one of the largest universal charging hubs. Factor at a rate of 0.33

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Green Car Congress

Of the lead recipients, 43% are small businesses, 35% are educational institutions, and 19% are large corporations. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

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