Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2010

Portland State University (PSU) and its Oregon partners, including Portland General Electric, have been selected by Toyota as one of six groups nationally to demonstrate and evaluate the next-generation Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV). Portland State University will administer the program regionally.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Portland, Ore.; Ford will also be introducing the C-MAX Hybrid and the C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid—also to be built at Michigan Assembly— for sale in the second half of next year. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Seattle; and Washington, D.C. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) launched Project Get Ready , an initiative that emerged from its Smart Garage Summit in October 2008 and that is intended to help communities prepare for plug-in vehicles including full battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and converted hybrid or internal combustion vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The advocacy group plans to set up a permanent storefront in downtown Portland that will showcase a variety of electric. Department of Energy announced Monday that it would award almost $1 million to Drive Oregon over three years, to fund a regional marketing campaign that will promote the benefits of electric cars to regional consumers.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Plug-in hybrids might be polluting a lot more than the emissions-test numbers suggest. Portland is re-upping on the Electric Avenue concept, but for big electric trucks this time. Daimler’s Smart plant sale will enable something that’s not small and not electric.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

The First Responder Safety Training consists of four modules titled Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Battery Electric Vehicles and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles. South Portland, Maine; and Sanford, Fla. —NAFTC Executive Director Al Ebron. Morgantown, W.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the challenges in getting car shoppers to consider plug-in electric vehicles is the education required. Tesla attacked this problem head on, opening its stores in malls and other sites where potential future buyers could dip their toes in and start to learn about electric cars without being pressured to sign on the line.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

Ford plug-in hybrid owners are operating in electric mode nearly 60% of the time, according to new aggregate data collected from Ford’s MyFord Mobile app. The top five most active regions for charge station searches are San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and the northeast corridor. Noon to 2 p.m.

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MARCH 13, 2019

With a range of up to 300 miles (483 km), the bus can be refueled in 6-20 minutes depending on the model and operating conditions, and requires no overnight plug-in electrical re-charging. New Flyer currently has significant ZEB orders from major cities including Toronto, Boston, Minneapolis, New York, Portland, and Vancouver.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 7, 2013

Yet California is experiencing shortages of electric cars, with many dealers saying they''ve entirely sold out of plug-in electric cars. Some Nissan dealers in Portland, Oregon, even say the Leaf electric car is now their best-selling passenger car. You see it all over: the meme that "electric cars are a sales failure."

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The new Plug-in Electric Vehicle Deployment Case Studies section of the AFDC website offers ideas for industry leaders and public officials looking for answers on residential charger permitting procedures, tax incentives, regulatory mechanisms, technical guidelines, equipment inspection requirements and more.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Those locations include: New York City, Portland, Columbus, Seattle, Denver, Austin, Washington DC, Calgary, Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver. Your car2go members will still be able to make trips using any one of thousands of car2go vehicles we make available to members in each of the North American locations still offering service.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Four of the areas—Portland, San Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz—have 20 or more actions in place. These typically range from $1,000 to $3,000 per battery electric vehicle in most states, and they are typically about half as much for plug-in hybrid vehicles due to their lesser all-electric driving capability.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 31, 2015

It’s already been four years since Portland really charged ahead in its commitment to electric cars with Electric Avenue, a project that designated a city block of parking spots plug-in-only, peppered the block with a variety of charger hardware, and let EV owners have at it.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2010

a partner in The EV Project, will install ECOtality’s Blink electric vehicle (EV) DC Fast Chargers (480 volt 3-Phase AC input)—unveiled at the Business of Plugging In 2010 conference—at 45 BP and ARCO locations. BP Products North America Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

EnerDel will build the batteries for five 1MW power systems that will be used by Portland General Electric (PGE) to help manage peak demand and smooth the variations in power from renewable sources. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 2, 2018

Maven will leverage Austin’s Plug-in EVerywhere network of EV chargers, including Electric Drive, Austin’s downtown smart mobility showcase complete with a DC Fast Charger and solar kiosk. Maven will provide charging for Maven Gig drivers for a limited time through the Austin Energy Plug-In EVerywhere and EVgo networks.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 4, 2009

Cold Ironing is the term for plugging a ship’s electrical system into the on-shore grid to supply power so that the ship’s giant diesel engine can be turned off while it’s docked. of Portland, Ore., was plugged into what is billed as the world’s first shore-side electrical grid. ron.white@latimes.com.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 12, 2021

The study’s focus was on the greenhouse gas impacts of subsidies for e-bikes, battery-electric vehicles, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in Portland, OR, and found that e-bike […].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The City of Hillsboro is the first in the State of Oregon to install Coulomb Technologies’ Level II ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for plug-in and electric vehicles. The charging stations are available for public use and located 15 miles outside of Portland.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

400 million in grants to purchase thousands of plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles for test demonstrations in several dozen locations; to deploy them and evaluate their performance; to install electric charging infrastructure; and to provide education and workforce training to support the transition to advanced electric transportation systems.

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MARCH 27, 2012

For example, the tool can demonstrate how operating an electric vehicle in Portland, Ore., Ford also has developed a specialized new tool to help optimize fleet purchases based on specific fuel types and operating locations. has different environmental ramifications from operating one in Philadelphia.

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

Participants will receive the latest news about the company’s zero-emission activities as well as information about Nissan LEAF and how to become plug-in ready. Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Metro areas with the strongest consumer responses are San Diego, Calif.; Tucson, Ariz.;

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APRIL 7, 2010

The vehicles will be powered by 11,210 UL-Listed charging stations in homes, and commercial and public locations in five US states: Arizona (Phoenix and Tucson), Washington (Seattle), Oregon (Portland, Salem, Corvallis and Eugene), California (San Diego) and Tennessee (Chattanooga, Knoxville and Nashville).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

The City of Hillsboro, Oregon plans to deploy 16 Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for plug-in and electric vehicles. Hillsboro is located 15 miles outside of Portland and is the home to more than 90,000 residents.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 19, 2015

DON'T MISS: Portland's. Installing more charging stations is important, but it's generally thought that they need to charge a car as quickly as possible, to lessen any inconvenience to owners. However, there's one place where speed just isn't that important.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Employees with chargers at their workplace are six times more likely to drive a plug-in electric vehicle than the average worker, and chargers located at the workplace can potentially double an electric vehicle owner’s daily driving range. Joining Electrify America in this initiative are SemaConnect, EV Connect and Greenlots.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2017

Workhorse Group has received a Letter of Intent from Clean Fuels Ohio to partner with Workhorse to help deploy 500 W-15 Plug-In Electric Pickup trucks throughout the state of Ohio. Workhorse has also received Letters of Intent from Duke Energy, Portland General Electric, the City of Orlando, and Southern California Public Power Authority.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The company also provides one of the charging stations on Portland’s “Electric Avenue” SPX Services works on EV projects with utility companies, cities and other organizations, and is an automotive diagnostics supplier to OEMs globally. That’s really what they did with [Portland’s] Electric Avenue.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 14, 2010

Oregon has been keenly competing with California for the title of America’s greenest state and now it has been rewarded for its efforts as it has been chosen as one the sites for Toyota’s Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle programme.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2015

San Francisco exhibits the most electric vehicle promotion actions and the highest share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric. Across the 25 cities studied—which featured on average a dozen activities to promote EVs—plug-in electric vehicles accounted for 1.1% Source: The ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2015

The four new chargers added to Oregon’s current network of 815 DC fast chargers will increase fast-charger availability by 15% in the Portland metro area and 5% statewide. The Soul EV plugs into any standard 120v outlet or a conventional 240v EV charger. The 2016 Soul EV is Kia’s first all-electric car to be sold in the US.

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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. WKHS has already received Letters of Intent from Duke Energy, Portland General Electric, and the City of Orlando and others.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Accelerating Alternatives for Minnesota Drivers project will provide safety and technical assistance and training related to Plug-in Vehicle (PEV) and natural gas fueling infrastructure; establish the Minnesota Natural Gas. Greater Portland. American Lung. Association in. Council of. Governments.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Things have been nuts this week, but I did get a chance to see the Nissan Leaf come to Portland today. Here's the requisite photo op with the Leaf showing the charging plugs at the front of the car. It arrived at OMSI this morning and the OEVA got a private session with the Leaf this afternoon.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 2, 2015

And, who's built a plug-in hybrid with armor plating--and why? Friday, we described the new version of Portland's Electric Avenue, a bank of. What's our new champion for the greenest sports car you can likely afford?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

By the end of 2015, EVgo expects to have nearly 50 of the additional chargers installed, with at least one such charger in each market (excluding Portland). Portland, OR. With BMW’s continued support, EVgo plans to install 500 additional DC Fast Combo chargers by the end of 2018, with more than 600 charging stations in operation.

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