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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, New York City, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. By Jim Motavalli for the New York Times. The worst case is that the recipient of the free charging station pays for installation.”.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

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The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. If you are a business in a program area, you can get the same deal - free charge stations paid for by stimulus money. The new ChargePoint America installation seems designed to illustrate my point.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Renewables account for approximately 10-15% of the global energy infrastructure investment and according to New Energy Finance renewables have been hit hard by the global recession with a 47% in Q1 2009 vs. Q1 2008 ($13.3 Grant Davis is a Managing Director at New York Life Investments. Billion vs. $28.3 Billion in 2008).

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Beijing and New york —. “If I’m going to consider an electric vehicle to buy as a second vehicle for commuting, then I’m going to have to see clear advantages and a quick payback period,&# says Trevor Houser, a partner at Rhodium Group, an economic advisory firm based in New York. Advocates disagree.

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Pike Research forecasts 37% CAGR for EV charging equipment, with 2.4 million units sold in 2020; wireless charging to show strong growth

Green Car Congress

install a charger. Although EVSE sales have been driven by federal stimulus dollars in 2011–2012, these projects are winding down, so sales will shift to non-publicly funded units. Europe will see the most EVSE installations during the forecast period, just slightly higher than in the Asia Pacific region.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Photo by Jim Wilson, New York Times. The New York Times looks at how EVs are going to shake up our cities. From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Eighteen more will be installed this year. “No

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?” .

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