Green Car Reports

JUNE 1, 2016

Electric utility Southern California Edison (SCE) is moving ahead with plans to install electric-car charging stations within its service area. As part of a pilot program, it plans to work with property owners to facilitate the installation of 1,500 charging stations. The program, called Charge Ready, kicked off May 27. SCE has committed $22. California electric utilities plug-in cars charging charging infrastructure

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 29, 2014

For people who don''t own a home in which to install a charging station, that can be a problem. For many drivers, a home charging station is necessary to make electric-car ownership feasible. California has now made life a little easier for plug-in electric-car drivers who rent apartments, condos, and homes, though. DON''T MISS: Landlords Vs Tenants

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2015

For most owners of battery-electric cars, some form of home charging is a must. Having a charging station at home ensures there will always be a readily available place to plug in.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 16, 2013

There are few better ways of running an electric car than doing so on solar power, and that''s now cheaper than ever according to a new report. The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory produces an annual "Tracking the Sun" report (pdf file) into the prices of photovoltaic (PV) power systems. From 2011 to 2012 it shows

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2015

It's installing a remarkable 120 charging stations at its U.S. Honda currently doesn't offer any plug-in electric cars, and has only sold a small number over the past several years. But the Japanese carmaker isn't quite done with cars with plugs. headquarters in Torrance, California. DON'T MISS: Honda To Offer New Electric Car, Plug-In Hybrid. Green California charging charging infrastructure plug-in cars

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Last spring, a map on Tesla''s website promised that 18 new "Superchargers"--the ultra-fast charging stations for its Model S electric luxury car--would be activated around the U.S. during "Summer 2013." Though summer''s not technically over until September 21, most of us have put away the sunscreen, sent the kids off to school, and transitioned to

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2015

As electric-car sales continue to grow, major changes are expected to come to the electricity infrastructure used to power them. As solar cells become more affordable, utility companies must ponder the impact of a larger portion of U.S. homes and businesses that either disconnect from the grid or buy only a fraction of their previous electricity

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Green Car Reports

JULY 10, 2013

If you think about it, the Tesla Model S comes close to being the ideal tow vehicle for lighter loads. It''s large, weighty and stable at speed. It''s rear-drive, for good traction. And it has plenty of torque. If those aren''t good tow car characteristics, we don''t know what are.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 26, 2014

On Monday, the California Legislature sent Gov. Brown a law meant to ease a big electric car adoption hurdle. The law, AB-2565, which passed in the California Senate on Monday after earlier approval by the House, will require

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The California Energy Commission and the Department of the Navy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing a partnership that supports Navy and Marine Corps installation efforts to develop alternative energy resources and increase energy security and reliability. Following the MOU signing, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment Dennis V.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 7, 2013

A shopping mall near Glasgow has become the first shopping centre in Scotland to install a rapid charging point.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 23, 2014

Almost 13,000 solar panels have been fitted to Toyota’s engine manufacturing factory in Deeside, North Wales.

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All Cars Electric

JULY 25, 2011

If you hadn’t guessed, we’re talking about installing electric car charging stations, a trend that's getting more common among big businesses across the Cracker Barrel did it at all its Tennessee stores, and Best Buy is doing it at stores all around the country. Now pharmaceuticals giant Walgreens is getting in on the action as well.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2013

has installed a new 1MW solid oxide fuel cell system from Bloom Energy ( earlier post ) on its Torrance, California campus. Over the past decade, American Honda has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce the company's carbon footprint at its Torrance campus, including the installation of high efficiency cooling systems and a recent lighting retrofit that cut the facility’s CO2 emissions by nearly 750,000 pounds per year. American Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 14, 2016

Install some solar panels on the roof of a building, cut carbon emissions, and perhaps save some money on electricity bills. It should have been fairly straightforward. But car dealer Bariel Ford just happened to be located in a town that owns its own utility. DON'T MISS: As Solar Power Spreads, Diverse Users Fight Utility Attempts To Penalize It. dealers energy policy electric utilities dealerships renewable energy solar

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Green Cars News

MARCH 28, 2013

The firm’s factory in Crewe is to become home to the UK’s largest roof-mounted solar panel installation, with over [.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

HAM) will install a compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station on its Marysville Auto Plant property in Marysville, Ohio. As part of its effort to reduce its global CO 2 emissions and minimize the environmental impact of its operations, Honda of America Mfg. The CNG station, which will be designed, constructed and operated by Trillium CNG, will be the first public CNG station located on a Honda property in North America.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The cost of having an electric vehicle charger installed in your home just got a lot cheaper this week thanks to Toyota, which confirmed that its official 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid charging station will cost just $999, including installation. While there are several home charging solutions now available for under $1000, installation is

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Green Cars News

MAY 20, 2013

London''s Plugged-in Places scheme, Source London, has now successfully installed 1,300 electric car charging points across the capital.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 7, 2014

That winning combination of an electrified vehicle and solar panels, is allowing one mum from Christchurch to power her car completely for free, using her home generated energy.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 14, 2016

California will issue nearly $9 million in grants for the installation of electric-car DC fast-charging stations along the state's highways. This will create a charging network to link up the country's most populous state with the West Coast Electric Highway already developed by Oregon and Washington. That will, in turn, make it easier for. California natural gas plug-in cars charging charging infrastructure

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Green Car Reports

MAY 11, 2014

Do your Mother''s Day plans involve safety glasses and hydraulic lifts? While one mother is taking today off as a weekend, tomorrow she and her daughter will likely don their work clothes and head back to the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant that builds the Chevrolet Volt and Cadillac ELR extended-range electric cars. Earlier this week, te Detroit

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Mobileye has completed the installation of collision avoidance technology across 4,500 for-hire vehicles in New York City. Together with Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc.,

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2013

Volkswagen flipped a large ceremonial switch yesterday that signaled the official launch of a huge array of photovoltaic solar cells at its Chattanooga assembly plant, which builds the Volkswagen Passat mid-size sedan. The new solar field can supply up to 12.5 percent of the plant’s total energy needs, adding to an already low-carbon

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2017

The technology group Wärtsilä has signed an agreement with Eidesvik Offshore to install a hybrid system with batteries on board of its vessel Viking Princess. Wärtsilä will install the new hybrid system in September 2017.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2013

We''ve all seen those ''FAIL'' pictures that turn up on the internet with startling regularity--tastelessly placed adverts in newspapers, security cameras facing blank walls, products with overly suggestive graphics. you know the deal. Welcome to the latest in a long line of fails, spotted by of BMW ActiveE facebook group user, Jack Brown.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Sumitomo Corporation has developed and installed the first large-scale power storage system which utilizes used batteries collected from electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2014

A 5-partner consortium led by ABB has launched a €8.4-million (US$10.5-million) project, co-funded 50% by the European Union, to install a corridor of high-quality fast chargers along key European motorways until the end of 2015.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 11, 2014

Honda announced today that it will install a compressed natural-gas (CNG) fueling station near its Marysville, Ohio, assembly plant. If drivers are going to use an alternative fuel, they need places to fill up their tanks. The fully-automated station--constructed and operated by Trillium CNG--will feature three Class 8 dispensers for commercial

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2012

Opcon, in collaboration with Wallenius Marine, recently completed the first reference installation of its Waste Heat Recovery technology for ocean-going vessels in a project supported by the Swedish Energy Agency. are two 450 V, 60 Hz, 1,700 kW AC-generators installed. The MV Figaro.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 7, 2013

The collaboration means that the firm will not only be the manufacturer of BMW’s i Wallbox, but also its recommended installer. BMW is to team with Schneider Electric to ensure that buyers of its new i3 electric car will have somewhere to plug-in and recharge at home.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2017

a provider of low- maintenance, software-operated, and data-verified auxiliary wind propulsion systems, signed an agreement with Finnish shipping company Viking Line to install its Rotor Sail Solution onboard the M/S Viking Grace , an LNG-fueled cruise ferry. Norsepower Oy Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

has installed a 9 kW-capacity solar power generation system at the Adachi Odai location of the Honda Cars Tokyo Chuo dealer network. The installation is the kick-off of a project to install Honda Soltec solar power generation systems with a total capacity of 1 MW at Honda automobile dealership locations in Japan by 31 March 2014. Honda has been installing solar power generation systems at Honda operations in Japan. Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Cars News

MARCH 17, 2010

The charging points made by Reuben Power are part of the manufacturer’s plans to install a network of 1 million charging points across the country. Little Chef is to begin testing high speed charging points for electric cars at ten of its branches within the next few weeks, The Times reports. If the trial is [.].

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2011

It's the green ideal: Charging an electric car or plug-in hybrid using electricity generated purely from the sun. But it's not fiction; a handful of large, multi-space solar carports are popping up in areas as diverse as Silicon Valley, New York City, Detroit, and Tennessee. The latest one, unveiled last week, sits outside the headquarters of GE

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

General Motors is introducing a solar charging canopy that moves with the sun. The Tracking Solar Tree is located at GM Company Vehicle Operations in Warren, Michigan. Chevy Volts beneath the Solar Tree. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2012

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), has signed an agreement with Henley Transmission Services, LLC, the largest franchise holder of AAMCO automotive service centers, to certify AAMCO technicians to install and service XL Hybrids’ hybrid-electric conversions. The XL Hybrids hybrid powertrain is designed for aftermarket installation. XL Hybrids, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

The refueling station is based on the H2Station CAR-100 product and was installed in only 48 hours before conducting of the first refueling. All local works were prepared prior to installation.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 13, 2012

Under a recent Federal contract, Eaton will provide those charging stations to various Federal locations--and the company is also working to train new installers for those stations. Industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation, whose automotive business makes superchargers and many other parts, also supplies electric-car charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The signing of the agreement begins the process of building and installing the first LPG-powered Scuderi power generator and energy storage systems. Scuderi split-cycle engine in power generator/CAES application. Click to enlarge. Scuderi Group, Inc.,

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