Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. The thirteen award selections announced today fall into two areas: Concentrating Solar Power Systems Studies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The technology installation in Germany follows the debut of the domestic Honda Power Manager Concept at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show in September. This latest trial installation at Honda’s Offenbach site applies the same principles on a larger scale. Earlier post.) tonnes of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The repower kits are engineered by Lightning eMotors and will be installed by ABC technicians. The first repowered motorcoach, a 2012 Van Hool T2145, will be going into operation in the San Francisco area this month, while other motorcoach models are being readied.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 14, 2022

San Francisco-headquartered Sunrun, the largest residential solar and battery storage installer in the US, has launched a home electric vehicle (EV) charger. The post Sunrun, Ford’s official charging partner, launches a home EV charger [update] appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2014

The Energy Commission approved 15 grants totaling more than $5 million to install 475 electric vehicle chargers in communities throughout California, including the cities of San Francisco, Burbank, Torrance and San Diego and the counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

This wall-mounted charging station features an SAE J1772-compliant connector, a weather-resistant NEMA 3 enclosure for indoor and outdoor installations, and with an output capacity of 7.2 BMW Installation Services. BMW Solar Energy Program. The BMW i Charging Station provides a fast way to charge the BMW i vehicle.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Tesla has highlighted its use of the Cybertruck to deliver part of an art installation in California, along with a Powerwall 3 and a Solar Roof used to keep the exhibit lit 24 hours a day. The installation is on display until April 28, 2024, in Golden Gate Park’s Peacock Meadow.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Linde’s refueling station at AC Transit’s Emeryville site will use liquid hydrogen produced off-site and gaseous hydrogen produced from water by a state-of-the-art electrolyzer, which will be powered by renewable energy credits generated by AC Transit’s new 575- Kilowatt solar installation at its central maintenance facility.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

San Francisco-headquartered Sunrun , the largest residential solar and battery storage installer in the US, yesterday posted on social media that its transition to electric fleet vehicles is under way with a photo of Sunrun-branded Ford F-150 Lightnings.

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EV Obssesion

MAY 30, 2021

The post Sunrun Partners with Ford to Provide Seamless Installation of 80-Amp Ford Charge Station Pro and Home Integration System for the All-Electric Ford F-150 Lightning appeared first on EV Obsession.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Alison Diaz (with scissors) along with ECHS staff and supporters about to cut the ribbon in front of Environmental Charter High School's new solar-powered greenhouse. Plants in black tubes behind the ECHS Science teacher are being fed by aquaponic system in the new solar-powered greenhouse. photo by Glenn Marzano).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

million to deploy 21 battery-electric Class 8 trucks at four Anheuser-Busch distribution facilities, and to commission solar generation at its Carson facility. million to deploy 21 battery-electric Class 8 trucks at four Anheuser-Busch distribution facilities, and to commission solar generation at its Carson facility.

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Electrek

AUGUST 9, 2022

San Francisco-headquartered Sunrun, the largest residential solar and battery storage installer in the US, has launched a new home electric vehicle (EV) charger. The post Sunrun, Ford’s official charging partner, launches a home EV charger appeared first on Electrek.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tesla has shared a unique new project at its Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, featuring a small, dedicated facility that’s powered only by solar and the company’s home battery. Storing Surplus Electricity If your solar system generates more electricity than you need, you can store the extra power in the Powerwall for later use.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

This system can enable energy produced from solar panels to be used more efficiently. In 2013, BMW and the University of San Diego installed a micro grid application with Battery 2nd Life MINI E batteries. This approach minimizes energy waste, effectively reducing energy costs on a day-to-day basis.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By cutting red tape and avoiding costs for construction and electrical work, combined with free solar energy, Beam Global says its EV ARC systems can offer customers a lower total cost of ownership compared to grid-tied charging stations. This may well be the case with the EV ARC, a solar-powered off-grid charging station made by Beam Global.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2018

Through the dynamic load balancing control of the JuiceNet Enterprise solution, EV owners can install more stations on their property without costly electrical upgrades to their building infrastructure, balancing the charging load in real-time to match site electrical capacity.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. SAN FRANCISCO — If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

The BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), have launched an 18-month pilot of the BMW i ChargeForward Program in the San Francisco Bay Area. The program is now issuing calls to participating BMW i3 drivers in the Bay Area to request the interruption of the charging of their EVs for one hour.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Electric distribution spending is affected by the number of customers served, the amount of electricity sold, the number of miles of electric distribution wire installed (line miles), and the maximum amount of load on the lines at one time (peak load).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

With an increasing supply of electricity from fluctuating renewable energies, such as wind farms or solar power stations, they can help stabilize power grids, levelling out energy fluctuations with virtually no loss—a role that is partly fulfilled by fossil power plants at present. It also markets electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

The program also includes a “second life” for used MINI E batteries, by repurposing these batteries into a stationary solar-powered electric storage system located at the BMW Technology Office in Mountain View, California. Using BMW i Home Charging Services, the vehicle is charged with home-generated solar power whenever this is available.

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Teslarati

JULY 12, 2023

Tesla has reached an agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit brought forth by Solar Roof customers who were faced with higher prices for installations in 2021. The settlement amounted to a bit over $6 million, as per a document from the United States District Court in San Francisco.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Photo: Caltrain Caltrain, the 160-year-old San Francisco to San Jose rail corridor, has ditched diesel and is now fully electric. This makes Caltrain’s zero-emission service from San Francisco to San Jose the first diesel-to-electric transition in North America in a generation. Get started here.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a bonus, the tech onboard the balloons runs on solar power. Compared to Starlink’s sky-cluttering swarms of tiny satellites, San Francisco–based Astranis’s plans may seem old school. The components are for startup NuScale , whose design promises to drastically reduce cost and installation time.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Image: Penske Truck Leasing Penske Truck Leasing is rolling out rooftop solar on its US truck leasing, rental, and maintenance buildings, starting in Illinois. The next Penske Truck Leasing rooftop solar system to come online will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan, “in the coming months,” followed by another in Linden, New Jersey, in 2025.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

EV owners are more likely to add solar panels to their homes, according to a new US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study – here’s why. More of the 2018 survey participants owned or previously owned solar panels than an EV – 9.1% That has a significant influence on your owning EVs or PVs.”

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EV Life

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Level 2 chargers cost as little as $500 to $800 at stores like Amazon and Walmart and can be installed at home with the help of an electrician. At a minimum, Level 2 chargers should be installed on a dedicated 40-amp circuit. In some cases, landlords may be open to installing faster Level 2 chargers. Utility Incentives.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

Most of the growth of air conditioning will be in other countries,” says mechanical engineer Vince Romanin, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based Gradient Comfort , “and restricting access is not fair.” Heath says, “I keep thinking, ‘What else is there?’”

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 6, 2024

Waymo is adding to its driverless taxi service areas in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is currently testing in Austin in advance of offering rides to the public soon. The cars currently only work in certain geofenced areas that have been well-mapped by Waymo, in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 11, 2024

San Francisco takes the top spot, for the second year since 2022, followed by Paris, Singapore, Munich, and Amsterdam. San Francisco has made significant public and private mobility investments, including purchasing electric vehicles and installing charging stations. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Alongside an expanded partnership with Uber , the influx of cash will help the company expand its Waymo-One robotaxi service in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami , delivering more than 150,000 paid trips each week. After getting a hefty $5.6 Tokyo is the companys first international destination. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Wayve, a well-funded London-based autonomous vehicle startup backed by Uber and Softbank, will begin testing its “Tesla-like” self-learning automated driving software in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Photo credit: Wavye To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 9, 2024

Ørsted formed a strategic partnership with San Francisco-based Mission Clean Energy, a utility-scale renewable energy and storage developer, to advance 1 gigawatt (GW) of standalone battery energy storage systems across the Midwest. The storage project at Eleven Mile Solar Center is one of the largest built in a single phase in the US.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 4, 2025

For EV charging, Loves recently installed next-generation chargers at two stores in New York and three in Pennsylvania and will continue building out the EV charging infrastructure across the country. Voltera announced the addition of 294 charging stalls in Santa Monica and San Francisco, California, and Dallas and Austin, Texas.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The current I-Pace cars currently only work in certain geofenced areas that have been well-mapped by Waymo, in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Charge your electric vehicle at home using rooftop solar panels. Find a reliable and competitively priced solar installer near you on EnergySage , for free.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

According to Ford, that translates to three days for an average 30 kilowatt-per-hour-per-day house with the extended-range Lightning battery, or as long as 10 days when used with a home solar power system that is equipped with a transfer switch that disconnects the house from the grid.

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