Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

million from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to help complete key routes of the West Coast Electric Highway (WCEH), a network of fast charging and Level 2 electric vehicle stations expected to stretch from Canada to Mexico. In two of the locations, Recargo will also install an additional 50 kW charger.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 3, 2010

Mercedes-Benz and smart have started the installation of recharging points across their dealer networks in preparation for the, what is hoped will be a widespread uptake of electric vehicles in the UK.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2015

The European Commission is launching three new related research projects aimed at making electromobility cheaper, more efficient and more reliable in order to facilitate more electric vehicles on Europe’s roads. The three projects will collaborate to research and develop environmentally-friendly, safe and robust electric vehicles.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2009

Well, Seattle will get 15 diesel/electric work trucks that are expected to save more than 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year as well as reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 112 tons annually. It will also pick up $500,000 for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 15, 2012

In a sign of the ever increasing importance of electric vehicles – one of the world’s largest companies has decided to invest heavily in the technology. The Boeing Company has reached an agreement to install ChargePoint electric vehicle charging stations from Coulomb Technologies at four of its campuses.

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Green Cars News

MAY 16, 2011

Ever wondered how many electric vehicle chargers have been installed as part of the Recovery Act? He reports that 1,800 electric vehicle chargers have been installed to date with Coulomb Technologies, ECOtality and General Motors among those moving forward thanks to the administration’s investments.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 13, 2011

Toyotahas selected an electric vehicle supply equipment provider as it prepares for the release of two new electric vehicles in the US. Leviton has been chosen – and it offers programme management with a certified installation team and an extensive customer service centre.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi has added a new charging supplier for its electric vehicle home charging systems and installation services that support the Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car. It has a turnkey solution that includes a home charging station, installation, permit acquisition, [.].

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Extended range electric vehicle powertrain company ALTe ( earlier post ) is tracking to produce a limited number of production-caliber vehicle powertrains by December, and plans to ramp up production in the first quarter of 2013, said CEO John Thomas in a recent interview with Green Car Congress. Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 25, 2011

In an effort to prepare communities for the widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles, the US Department of Energy has launched two online tools.

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Green Cars News

MAY 14, 2009

Last week we told you how Think had expanded to Spain and now the Norwegian company has made several additional announcements at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Norway. It confirmed that the Think City has been granted the first ever pan-European homologation certificate for an electric vehicle.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 2, 2012

Chiltern Railways has hopped aboard the electric vehicle express after charging points were installed at nine major train stations. Accompanied by specially allocated [.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Ford has teamed up with “The Jay Leno Show” in the United States to provide an all-new battery electric version of the Ford Focus ST five-door for celebrities to drive in the programme’s regular “Green Car Challenge&# segment. The “Green Car Challenge” will be a regular feature on “The Jay Leno Show”.

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2013

With new Government subsidies for home electric car charging points now coming into force, British Gas is going one better and offering electric car owners the chance to have home charging facilities installed for free. Electric cars'

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Green Cars News

JULY 30, 2013

The biggest names in Japanese motoring have agreed to work together in an effort to boost the installation of a charging network for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles across Japan. Latest News Green cars Electric cars Hybrid cars Nissan Mitsubishi Honda Toyota'

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Green Cars News

MAY 14, 2009

British company Elektromotive has unveiled a groundbreaking tool for monitoring and invoicing electricity drawn from vehicle charging stations. It will be installed at all Elektrobay charging stations of which there are already 160 across the UK.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. Nissan Leafs, which were the first battery-electric vehicle to hit the U.S. John, welcome to the podcast.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports. Nissan Leafs, which were the first battery-electric vehicle to hit the U.S. John, welcome to the podcast.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 20, 2022

Millennials, those born from 1981 to 1996, are amongst the top buyers of electric cars in the world. If you are one of the members of this cohort interested in an electric vehicle, congratulations! Now, for your peace of mind, there is one more thing that you should have–electric car insurance.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

UK businesses and fleet operators only have to the end of the month to apply for funding towards the installation of charging points or refuelling facilities for alternative fuelled vehicles. For fleets, the cost of installing refuelling or recharging infrastructure represents a major barrier to switching fuel use.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Level two, J1722-compliant charging stations will be installed at 12 Best Buy stores in Tucson, Arizona; Phoenix, Arizona; San Diego, California; Los Angeles, California; and Seattle, Washington. US electronics retailer Best Buy will soon offer charging stations after reaching an agreement with ECOtality, Inc.

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EV Connect

MAY 30, 2023

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption is gaining speed, and the nation’s charging network is surging to keep up. If your business chooses to electrify its fleet or install public charging stations, you need to be confident you can do it securely. EV Connect’s network offers that assurance.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Development agency, One North East has agreed to install 619 free charging points for electric cars in the North East of England by 2011.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 17, 2010

Volt owners will be boosted by a 240V charge station from either ECOtality of Coulomb Technologies with the cost of home installation also expected to be included in many [.].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Heinz-Jakob Neußer, Member of the Board of Management for the Volkswagen brand with responsibility for Development, and responsible for Powertrain Development of the Volkswagen Group, observed that although the electric drive in the e-tron quattro is being developed within the second-generation MLB toolkit: It is not an MLB platform anymore.

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Green Cars News

JULY 11, 2009

Hot on the heels of McDonald’s announcing it will install an electric vehicle charging station at one of its North Carolina restaurants (for more see our article ‘ McDonald’s embraces electric cars ‘), Burger King has jumped on the fast food green car bandwagon.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

But in the automotive world and especially when related to electric vehicles, deliveries frequently fall well short of what was promised. And it is looking through that lens that I wanted to dive into GM’s most recent electric vehicle “supply” promise. Electric Vehicle PR Is Driving Up the Stock Price.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 31, 2014

Nissan has now installed a 1,000 of its CHAdeMO quick chargers across Europe with the installation of a new charger at the Roadchef Clacket Lane Services in Surrey, UK. These rapid chargers enable electric vehicles, including Nissan’s own LEAF, to recharge to 80 per cent battery capacity in just 3[.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 29, 2009

However, now one of its leading universities has signed one of the largest electric vehicle infrastructure deals, with Brighton-based Elektromotive the beneficiary. Elektromotive will install 150 Elektrobay charging stations across the campus of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology by September this year.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

The country’s CSIRO and Victorian energy distributor SP AusNet have begun a three-month road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with staff from SP AusNet to use the vehicles for their daily drive to work and for leisure purposes.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Last week we told you that the company was heading to Belgium and Luxembourg (see article ), and now it will play a pivotal role in the introduction of an electric vehicle recharging infrastructure in Denmark. There will be several more bays installed during 2010.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 19, 2014

The event was organised by Chargemaster, the company that has installed over 3,000 public charge points in London. They’ve been in the electric vehicle news rather a lot in the past few weeks as they are the first compa[.]. Electric cars Green credentials Robert Llewellyn Editor Pick'

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

UK based Elektromotive is making headway in the electric vehicle recharging market after appointing ThePluginCompany to install networks of charging stations across Belgium and Luxembourg. The first project starts in Brussels at the headquarters of LeasePlan, the world’s largest vehicle management and leasing provider.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In

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Green Cars News

JUNE 18, 2009

Environmentalists unsure about the benefits of electric vehicles constantly question where the electricity will come from and whether the emissions from its production will wipe out the fact that the vehicles themselves are clean. However, what if electricity could actually be generated from the cars themselves?

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 13, 2009

Electric Avenue will soon arrive in Music City USA as the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County became the first municipality in the State of Tennessee to install and deploy Coulomb ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations.

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