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Event: City of Los Angeles Taking Green To the Streets

Clean Fleet Report

The route to electrification is now going through the City of Los Angeles. The department opened its Center for Green innovation in the San Fernando Valley and showcased two plug-in hybrid street sweepers, a battery electric Class 6 truck and innovative solar charging to mark the opening. ” Rocking Plug-Ins.

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Tesla owner designs creative Model Y solar roof mod that adds up to 60 miles a day

Teslarati

Using some clever DIY strategies and conventional solar panels, the Model Y owner was able to design a system that allows his all-electric crossover to charge from the sun while it’s parked outside. The Model Y owner noted that his tests with the product have been done in Los Angeles, where the sun is in abundance.

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Tesla Solar Roof aces long-term test despite being caked in ash for 5 months

Teslarati

The Tesla Solar Roof may not inspire as much coverage as the company’s electric cars like the Model 3 and Model Y, but the integrated solar shingles are still a unique flagship product. Tesla enthusiast and Los Angeles resident Austin Flack had a 9.09 kW Solar Roof installed on his home last year.

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Tesla solar rentals, more VW ID concepts, Hyundai EV design: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Hyundai plans a new design language to identify its EVs. Tesla plans to rent solar panels. Volkswagen is sizing up some EV-adoption barriers, and a new piece of the ID electric-car lineup is coming to this fall's Los Angeles Auto Show. As its works to expand the solar business it bought with Solar City.

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

Cars That Think

The Project Koyash team at ASU designed a solar-powered air-filtration system that autonomously cleans polluted air in less than an hour. Warudkar is an associate aeroelasticity engineer at Virgin Galactic , in Los Angeles. The system includes a solar panel, a battery, an Arduino microcontroller, an inverter, and a filter.

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Blue Bird just got its single largest electric school bus order yet

Baua Electric

The Los Angeles Unified School District ordered 180 electric school buses, adding to the 26 Blue Bird electric school buses it already has in its fleet. Blue Bird will add 30 Vision and 150 All American (pictured above) electric buses to Los Angeles’ school bus fleet. Get started here. –ad*

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Tesla working on 164-stall Supercharger station in California

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The project is dubbed a Supercharger station and microgrid, set to include solar canopies, drive-through stalls and likely some Tesla Megapacks to store power generated by the solar hardware. The world’s new largest Supercharger is coming soon to Kern County, California!! and as many as 3,004 across all of North America.