Ford has made a serious investment in electric vehicles in recent years: with the likes of the Ford Focus Electric, Ford C-MAX Energi and the Ford Fusion plug-in electric vehicle (pictured) all on the way to our roads. As such, being endorsed as the company’s preferred charging station supplier was always likely to offer a Continue reading →
Electric vehicle drivers in the Charlottesville area have a new publicly-accessible place to charge up at the University of Virginia. The project that brought a charging station to the second level of UVa’s Central Grounds Garage was spearheaded by fourth-year student Kyle Smalkowski with support from the university’s facilities management and parking and transportation departments. Continue reading →
Electric charging stations may be coming to Deerfield as the village considers joining other North Shore communities in offering the green transportation technology for their shopping districts. Since early 2012, Deerfield has belonged to North Shore Electricity Aggregation Consortium, scoring bulk rates for electricity along with Highland Park, Lake Forest, Glencoe, Lake Bluff, Northbrook, Skokie Continue reading →
State officials say drivers of electric vehicles will soon be able to recharge at four places along the Pennsylvania Turnpike — and eventually at many more. via Pa. turnpike plans electric vehicle charging – SFGate.
Everyone talks about charging electric cars from the grid, but not nearly as much about the grid charging from electric cars. That’s a technology called vehicle to grid (V2G), and while it has a fairly long history (Rocky Mountain Institute guru Amory Lovins first talked about it in 1995, and Google has shown intermittent enthusiasm), Continue reading →
In the United States, electric vehicles are slowly gaining ground on gas-powered cars. As of March, 2013, there were 34,000 on the road. But if electric vehicles are ever going to overtake their combustion-engine counterparts, the sticker price will have to come down, battery life will have to go up and the charging station infrastructure Continue reading →
ChargePoint and the City of Sacramento today announced that the City has reached a significant milestone with more than 100 electric vehicle charging stations installed in and around the California State Capitol. Many of the 100 installed EV charging stations were made possible by a State and Federal grant funded by the American Recovery and Continue reading →
New York is looking for bidders to install more than 360 electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid charging stations as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Charge NY initiative. The long-term goal is to create a statewide network of up to 3,000 public and workplace charging stations over the next five years and to put up to Continue reading →
The city of Lincoln is working on plans for electric-vehicle charging stations, including one downtown and eventually on Interstate 55. Mayor Keith Snyder said he has long been interested in the idea, and now the pieces could be coming together. Eaton Corp. in Lincoln has expressed interest in participating in a community project. The company Continue reading →
Decades may have passed since the Electric Slide was in vogue, but electric cars are now sliding into charging stations all around Lodi. Seven electric vehicle charging stations are installed in Lodi and are currently free to use. Want to charge up in your own home? The Lodi City Council approved an ordinance to offer Continue reading →
The Tops grocery store in the Seaway Plaza off Route 11 will offer an electric-vehicle charging station in a project with National Grid that received approval Wednesday by the Pamelia Planning Board. Tops will pay for the electricity used by its customers at the station, which would include two connector cables for vehicles to charge Continue reading →
London city leaders are upping the ante in their bid to stake a claim as a leader in green energy. Official unveiled three new electric-vehicle charging stations Monday, bringing London’s total to nine. While several of the existing stations are a bit off the beaten path, the new ones will be front and centre — Continue reading →
Drivers of plug-in electric vehicles this month surpassed their 10,000th charging session using Austin Energy’s Plug-In EVerywhere network of charging stations, saving 7,363 gallons of gasoline. In terms on money, this means about $24,000 in gas money saved for motorists based on $3.25 per gallon of gasoline. The charging stations, powered with 100 percent renewable Continue reading →
To develop New York City’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Mayor Michael Bloomberg last month called for the installation of 10,000 charging spots for electric vehicles over the next seven years. In June, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a $4.4 million plan to create 353 electric vehicle charging stations across the state. via 80 Electric Continue reading →
AeroVironment, Inc. and the United States Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), managed by Battelle, today announced a commercial license agreement for a technology that supports widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) by helping to stabilize the electrical grid — the network of electricity generation, transmission and distribution that powers the nation. Continue reading →
Life may get a little easier for drivers of electric cars looking for public charging stations. Two of the largest operators of public charging stations, ChargePoint and ECOtality, are announcing that they are going to jointly market their stations. This isn’t a merger. Rather, they are simply going to market together using an entity that Continue reading →
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. and General Electric, which also has a major presence in metro Atlanta, are among a growing list of companies joining a federal effort to get more charging stations for electric vehicles at workplaces. GE was among the first group of joining the Department of Energy’s Workplace Charging Challenge. The other original companies Continue reading →
Charging stations are cropping up in handy locations in parks and shopping centers in the Tri-Cities this month, giving drivers of electric vehicles some peace of mind as they travel throughout the Lower Mainland. On Friday, Coquitlam Centre demonstrated its two GE WattStations while another four charging stations are expected to be operating in Port Continue reading →
Mount Kisco’s Village Board of Trustees voted Monday night to authorize the village to seek a federal grant for as many as four electric car charging stations. Village officials described electric vehicles as an emerging trend that they can get into. via Kisco Trustees Back Electric Car Charging Stations – Chappaqua-Mount Kisco, NY Patch.
A technology that will allow widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles without negatively impacting the electrical grid is the subject of a commercial license agreement between Battelle and AeroVironment, Inc., of Monrovia, Calif. The technology may also ultimately result in lower costs for plug-in electric vehicle owners. Battelle operates the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest Continue reading →
