Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

For the program, New Flyer integrated battery technology from XALT Energy with high-efficiency electric motors and rapid overhead charging systems from Siemens. Similar New Flyer buses and charging systems are anticipated to follow in Los Angeles, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Boston in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2013

Clockwise from upper left: ESS enclosure, power control unit and ultracapacitor modules. In regenerative braking systems, the electric motor that propels an electric or hybrid vehicle also does most of the braking. Source: TIGGER, Tri-Met. Click to enlarge. Maxwell Technologies, Inc. TriMet won a $4.2-million

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

WKHS), an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of battery-electric vehicles, received a Letter of Intent from Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) for 500 W-15 Plug-In Electric Pickup trucks. The four-wheel drive system uses dual direct-drive traction motors, one on the front axle, the other on the rear. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Portland, Ore.; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Raleigh Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va.;

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

Kia Motors America (KMA) is continuing its progressive launch of the Soul EV and adding to the electric vehicle ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest with 20 Soul EV-certified dealers and a charging network. Of the 20 dealers in the region, 12 will be located in Washington and eight in Oregon.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Portland, Ore.; Focus Electric is powered by a 23 kWh lithium-ion (li-ion) battery system (with cells from LG Chem/Compact Power) with an advanced active liquid cooling and heating system to precondition and regulate the temperature. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

Nissan Motor Co., Through the use of renewable energy, Nissan Mexicana has prevented 152,800 tons of CO 2 from entering the atmosphere, and has so far assembled 460,000 vehicles with wind power and 57,400 vehicles with biogas power from the city’s landfills. The company achieved a 22.6%

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

MAY 31, 2009

Last weekend, I took the Civic-EV to Portland International Raceway to show it off at the Electrathon/Human-Powered Vehicles event there. Here's Gary's Honda Insight EV with lithium ion batteries and an Siemens AC motor. This shows some of the velomobiles (encased recliner cycles) present at the event.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

AUGUST 12, 2007

I took the day off to walk around Portland to the farmers market and EV awareness day with Krista. This was originally just a human powered vehicle made in Belgium, but the owner added an electric motor to power the rear third wheel to get up the hills in Portland (of which there aren't many in Belgium).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2009

Coca-Cola Enterprises uses tractors as its standard bulk delivery truck for large deliveries, and plans to deploy the Kenworth hybrid tractors to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New Orleans, New York, Portland (Ore.), The Kenworth T370 hybrid trucks (rated at 33,000 lb.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

It is the second such venture between the two companies, following the announcement last month that they are teaming up with Mazda Motor Corporation on a similar system using vehicles converted to electric drive using a platform designed and built by EnerDel and its partner THINK, which will be stationed at a Family Mart convenience store.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

JULY 12, 2009

We held it at Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland. I gave a press event with the Mayor Sam Adams and two VPs from local power companies (PGE and Pacific Power). Yesterday was our local EV organization's big annual event called EV Awareness Day. Here I am with the Tesla Roadster.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

AUGUST 17, 2007

Going to NEDRA at Portland International Raceway was my first major excursion in the 914 since both the flywheel was balanced and the clutch was properly adjusted. Here's the wait in line for the ticket office at Portland International Raceway. Here's the wait in line for the ticket office at Portland International Raceway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Promote electric vehicle adoption by increasing access to charging infrastructure and supporting the development of plug-in electric vehicles that are as accessible, available, and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles. Dayton Power & Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company. Georgia Power. General Motors.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

JUNE 22, 2007

I ran out to United Welding Supply today in Portland (on NE MLK) and picked up 20 feet of 2/0 welding cable. a foot, that's the best price I've seen in the Portland area by far. They recycle a lot of uninterruptable power supplies (UPS) which often contain high-current Anderson connectors on the dead batteries.

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Batteries Battery Portland Supplies 100

Open Source Civic EV Kit

JULY 9, 2009

It gives a lot of power when requested and is quite easy to tune various internal parameters through the user-interface over the USB port. Also, the power given to the motor instantly reflects whatever is specified on the potbox. Get out your Fluke-meter and start debugging. In short, it's great.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 2, 2023

In a nutshell, we believe that this bio-inspired robot zoo demonstrates how the diverse and fascinating abilities of living creatures can serve as inspiration and principles for developing robotics technology capable of achieving multiple robotic functions and solving complex motor control problems in systems with many degrees of freedom.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! More on Electric Cars: It’s On! About Gas 2.0 on It’s On!

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Combustion vehicles that race there have to contend with thinner air, which means less efficient combustion and lower engine power. With electric drive, this isn’t a worry – electric motors work equally well at any elevation. For season ten, Formula E’s faster, lighter, and much more angular Gen3 car returns, which debuted last season.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

billion in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce batteries and their components and to expand battery recycling capacity; $500 million in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce electric drive components for vehicles, including electric motors, power electronics, and other drive train components; and. Compact Power, Inc. (on

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EV Adoption

MARCH 19, 2021

Portland-based Chargeway has a beacon display solution designed just for this purpose. The test drive vehicles were the high-end 1st Edition version that has a panoramic glass roof, fake leather seats, taller tires, power seats, and several other upgrades. Overall the ID.4 Volkswagen ID.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

First shown as a concept vehicle at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show, the production car version of Mitsubishi i was introduced to the Japanese public in January 2006. A redesigned center console featuring improved materials will also feature prominently on the new North American Mitsubishi i-MiEV. Background. i-MiEV, Japan-spec.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

3 David Herron said on March 16th, 2009 at 12:31 am Fast recharge will require huge power levels. The availability of high current charging power is not important. right now, and our conventional 60 Hz is absolute crap - most modern airliners use 400Hz, to save on size of alternators, generators motors and transformers!

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Frank has got himself a battery fixation but he doesn’t seem to know that some folks have over 160,000 miles on the battery powered RAV-4 EVs that are still going strong after many years on the road. But Frank’s worried about how much the batteries cost and how much they weigh, and how much room they take up in the trunk.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives. By 2011 look for a larger THINK Ox.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Sonoma County Water Agency "Sparky" by Hymotion, May 2007, (Santa Rosa, CA), contact: sherwood@scwa.ca.gov Wisconsin Public Power Inc. Burbank Water and Power 2007 Prius by Energy CS, May 2007, (Burbank, CA). Wisconsin Public Power Inc. photo Bullfrog Power , Prius, Hymotion, November 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They think BYD has a shot at becoming the worlds largest automaker, primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry. His engineers investigate a wide array of technologies, from automobile air-conditioning systems that can run on batteries to the design of solar-powered streetlights.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. Powered by Blogrunner Previous post The Promise of a Better Light Bulb? electric car race with i MiEV in Oregon?

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