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Downtown South San Francisco electrified

Plugs and Cars

Four electric vehicle charging stations were unveiled today at a new parking structure in downtown South San Francisco. Miller Avenue was blocked off as dignitaries gathered to celebrate the delayed opening of this large project for this small city in the shadow of San Francisco.

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San Francisco Will Juice Your Electric Car For Free

All Cars Electric

The city of San Francisco, California, will install electric vehicle charging stations in publicly-owned garages and at San Francisco International Airport by the end of the year that drivers can use for free until 2013.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

Coulomb Technologies unveiled San Francisco's first ChargePoint America charge stations yesterday in a Priority Parking lot along the Embarcadero. Free Juice Bar explicitly sells charge stations to offer free power. Mayor Newsom and many city employees were there, along with large signs and representatives of MasterCard.

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

Plugs and Cars

I wrote back in December about my unhappy experience attempting to charge my loaner LEAF at San Francisco City Hall's electric car charging stations. A threat taken seriously in San Francisco. San Francisco's Department of the Environment just received its first LEAF, which now uses one of these spaces.

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Who knew?

Plugs and Cars

A few more J-plugs have appeared in the San Francisco Bay Area, tho I challenge you to find out where they are. The units I found quite accidentally are Free Juice Bar dual-connector units. So for all that I like about the Free Juice Bar business model, this is one case where they are not a model to follow. Good for them.

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Feature: The 3 Best EVs for Road Tripping

Clean Fleet Report

Use Tesla’s Supercharger network (25,000+ chargers worldwide) to juice up your ride and add 175 miles worth of power in just 15 minutes. Michigan retailer Meijer has teamed up with Electrify America to offer EV charging stations across the state, so you can travel anywhere you please without running out of juice. California.

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More SF Bay Area Charge Stations.some work

Plugs and Cars

Furious phone calls during the event couldn'tget the machine to allow the juice to flow after waving the Coulomb Card. A brand spanking new South San Francisco municipal parking garage one block off Grand Ave. Now I learn from fellow LEAF driver and long-time EV driver Danny Ames (he loved his Th!nk Metered pay parking.)

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