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BMW providing 10 pre-owned i3 EVs to UC Davis for 18 months

Green Car Congress

The vehicles are 2015-2016 models, with battery technology that enables an everyday range of about 80-90 miles—suited for in-town driving, and enough for travel between Davis and Sacramento. Dahlia Garas, program director of the Plug-In Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center, with a BMW i3.

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Tesla Tax Credit: How Californians Can Save $15,000 with EV Credits and Rebates

EV Life

The state’s most popular program, the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) , offers rebates from $1,000 to $7,500 for the purchase or lease of eligible zero-emission vehicles, including electric (EV), plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV), and fuel cell vehicles (FCEV). How our EV Climate Loan works: Pre-qualify in minutes.

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EV acquire hobby creeps up slowly

Baua Electric

has constructed its personal national charging community. Certainly, electrical and hybrid automobiles made up part of all unused retail automobile registrations within the San Francisco segment in March and April this time, S&P International Mobility discovered. Normal Motors and Ford Motor Co. It’s the first main U.S.

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Guide to California EV Incentives

EV Life

California EV rebates California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) promotes the production and use of zero-emission vehicles, offering EV rebates between $1,000 and $7,500 for the purchase or lease of electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles.

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Ford and Microsoft Partnering on EV Smart Charging

Green Car Congress

Microsoft Hohm is an Internet-based application, built on top of Azure, Microsoft’s new cloud-computing operating system, that provides consumers with personalized energy saving recommendations.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). Hertz has 8,500 locations in 150 countries.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

We filled the place, which had a 225-person capacity,” said Jerry Pohorsky, another former EVA board member who has served as EAASV chapter president for 11 of the past 13 years. “It Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose. It was standing room only.

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