Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has issued a first-in-the-nation solicitation for charging equipment to service electric vehicles (EVs). Oregon is poised to lead the nation in the early adoption of plug-in electric vehicles. Gail Achterman, chair of the Oregon Transportation Commission.

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Oregon Transportation Electric Vehicles Charging 170

Open Source Civic EV Kit

APRIL 7, 2008

This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association. While people can purchase neighborhood electric vehicles today for about $10K, they only have a top speed of 35 miles an hour or so, essentially glorified golf-carts.

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Kits Conversion Golf Cart Saturn 185

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 21, 2017

Ladies and gentlemen your friendly neighborhood Greenius has hit the wall. I helped found the South Bay Bicycle Coalition, helped win the $250,000 grant from the LA County Health Department and worked with the rest of the Board to get the 7-city Master Bicycle Plan passed. I’ve got National Parks in Oregon and Washington state to see.

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Los Angeles Climate Washington All-Electric 284

Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2025

The dial-a-ride service was designed to resurrect a defunct cab company that had once served Pittsburghs African American neighborhoods. Indeed, the idea that universities are engines of innovation is so ingrained that we take it for granted that it was always the case. Are innovators born or made?

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Universal MIT North Dakota IDEA 78