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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

Green Car Congress

This service allows users to pick up and drop off a vehicle at any legal public parking spot, including metered locations, within a 13 sq. To support powering the fleets, Electrify America will also install charging stations with ultra-fast chargers to power each service. mile “Home Zone.” EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.

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Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

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Net proceeds from sustainable financing will be invested and expended in four areas: Clean Transportation – Designing, developing and manufacturing zero-emissions transportation, focusing on battery-electric vehicles and the batteries that power them across the full range of design, development, manufacturing and end-of-life.

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Polaris to buy Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM) from Chrysler

Green Car Congress

Since the company was established in 1998, it has placed more than 45,000 electric-powered vehicles on the road worldwide. The six GEM passenger and utility models are legal on most streets with posted speeds of 35 mph or less. To date, GEM cars have driven more than 450 million emission-free miles.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

Electric Auto Association

We were without power for six weeks,” White said. “I I was at a trade fair and I saw this little neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV). There was no NEV legislation on the books that made it legal,” White said. “I This prompted White to construct three additional solar-powered GEMs, including a small truck.

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Greenius Weekend Update

Creative Greenius

Last Saturday’s Solar Homes Tour put on by the Environmental Priorities Network and the Manhattan Beach Environmental Task Force brought out hundreds of visitors to the ten different solar powered homes in Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Torrance.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

By reducing wind resistance and weight, the company’s engineers effectively are reducing the amount of work an electric engine will have to perform to get the car up to driving speeds, which in turn conserves battery power.&#. million gallons of gas consumed by those white little trucks trolling your neighborhood.

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