Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2010
GM announced that the first buyers of the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle with extended-range capability will be eligible for one of 4,400 free home charging stations. The program will provide Volt owners with a 240-volt charge station from either ECOtality, Inc. or Coulomb Technologies.
EV Adoption
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
Because the US is so vast and spread out and we lack convenient passenger rail in most parts of the country, Americans’ best, most affordable, preferred, and often only option to take the kids to Disneyland/Disney World or see grandma 500 miles away — is by car. And in one area we do — at least to an extent.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 20, 2009
billion in federal grant monies awarded to accelerate the manufacturing and deployment of hybrid electric vehicles and new-generation batteries for a project to develop, validate, and deploy 220 advanced plug-in hybrid electric pickups and minivans. Earlier post.). Power management will be one of the key challenges in this development?
Plugs and Cars
MARCH 3, 2011
Plugging in to public charge stations is part of the process of introducing Americans to electric cars. Here's what's going to happen: You get your new LEAF or Volt. Publicly plugging in is an act of coming out, of civic responsibility. A charge station appears at the grocery store you frequent. You plug it in, but nothing happens.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
Project documentation prepared to support the grant award indicated that production of battery cells would transition from LG Chem’s South Korean facility to the Michigan plant beginning in 2012, assuming that demand grew as expected. Less than half of the expected number of jobs had been created to support the project.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JUNE 3, 2010
A new Federal Grant will enable many electric vehicle early adopters to get their chargers for free. (A Nine United States regions will receive 4,600 free chargers for public and private use through the ChargePoint America program, funded in part by $15 million in stimulus funds administered by the Energy Department.
Plugs and Cars
JULY 13, 2011
All plug-in cars these days come with a 120-volt charge cord. This will actually be sufficient for many if not most Volt drivers, and quite a few LEAF drivers. An empty Volt pack will take 10 hours to fully recharge; an empty LEAF about 20 hours. Something Ecotality couldn’t do even with $100 million in federal grant money.
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