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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Parking lots seem logical places for solar farms, blocking the sun’s rays from baking vehicle interiors and converting that energy to usable power to make the cars run. Parking lots covered with solar panels is an idea whose time has come. Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice? Why aren’t such facilities multiplying everywhere?

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We’re the New Renewables

Cars That Think

JUICE BOX For many years, environmentalists have looked forward to the coming of net-zero-energy buildings. startup Elve Speed, embodies the mission to bring ultrahigh-speed wireless connectivity to remote and urban areas. We choose images that reflect an important advance, or a trend, or that are just mesmerizing to look at.

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There’s a Queue Coming for Tesla Charging, and That’s OK

Cars That Think

And the entire industry is facing up to the essential nature of charger interoperability: the idea that every car must connect with every charger, with zero hassle, just as internal-combustion cars can pull up to most any pump. That's about to change, beginning with a Tesla pilot project in the Netherlands. If the U.S.

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Save $1,138 on Hover-1 Altai Pro R500 e-bike, Jackery Explorer 600 Plus $419, EV charger adapter, more

Baua Electric

Today’s Green Deals are all about getting up to go outside your usual stomping grounds, with an EV to carry you away, a power station to keep the juice flowing on your devices and appliances, and a EV charger adapter when you’re far from home and in need of a compatible recharge. hours and a standard wall outlet gets the job done in 1.6

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Udaipur to Himachal : 923 km in an electric car

Plug In India

Thanks to the Tigor’s great suspension, I was overtaking other cars on the rumbler strips at almost double the crawling speed that other cars had slowed down to. I realised the wisdom of the local cars’ slow speeds after the third rumbler. The connectivity between different pins of some of the connectors was checked.

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Those exact words came from my wife’s mouth when I suggested we rent an electric car for a week’s family holiday in France. A shitty obscure Chinese electric car. Rent a petrol or diesel car for your holidays. In many places, electric cars are cheaper to rent than equivalent petrol cars.

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

Plugs and Cars

I wrote back in December about my unhappy experience attempting to charge my loaner LEAF at San Francisco City Hall's electric car charging stations. Parking in these Coulomb charge stations is restricted to city-owned vehicles and Car Share companies under threat of towing. But one shouldn't have to know Bob to plug in your new car.