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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

Electric Auto Association

Every neighborhood deserves clean air and the transition to EVs is the quickest way to get there.” The result was a promise of two new Level 2 chargers to be installed in Trotwood over the next 24 months. Participant at the National Drive Electric Week event in Trotwood, Ohio. When I bought my VW ID.4,

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Cars That Think

Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains.

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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

Electric Auto Association

Every neighborhood deserves clean air and the transition to EVs is the quickest way to get there.” The result was a promise of two new Level 2 chargers to be installed in Trotwood over the next 24 months. Participant at the National Drive Electric Week event in Trotwood, Ohio. When I bought my VW ID.4,

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FTA awarding $55M to 10 projects deploying battery-electric and fuel-cell buses

Green Car Congress

The Worcester Regional Transit Authority (WRTA), the transit provider in Central Massachusetts, will receive funding to purchase and install a Proterra charging station for its existing fleet of zero-emission battery-electric buses. million rides per year throughout Stark County, Ohio. Worcester Regional Transit Authority (WRTA).

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

Cars That Think

He supervised the installation of the equipment by more than 150 cable systems in the United States. He consulted on large-scale power generation and delivery, helping bring electricity to neighborhoods in more than 60 countries during his career. In his free time, he was a musician and a tinkerer. as an engineer.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region. Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

I continue to be an aspiring policy wonk on the solar financing issue known around the state as AB 811 financing, since we need it if we’re going to make it possible for people to install solar right now, instead of waiting till electric rates triple and the greenhouse gas situation makes it mandatory.

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