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Where to Start with EV Charging for Convenience Stores & Truck Stops

Blink Charging

To help facilitate this goal, the Department of Transportation is building a network of 500,000 EV chargers to connect the country along its network of interstate highways by 2030. Convenience stores and truck stops are in a fantastic position to take advantage of available federal funding for DC fast charging stations.

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On National Golf Cart Day (seriously), here’s 10 ways they beat cars

Baua Electric

In fact, these days, they’re more commonly found zipping through neighborhood streets or joy-riding around beach communities. Once powered by polluting combustion engines, these days, most golf carts use quiet and emissions-free electric motors, charging up their batteries for mere pennies and offering plenty of around-the-town range.

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly. But this is but a singular component.

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Swaying toward EV mobility

Electric Auto Association

Attacking the problem The idea for Sway Mobility came in 2017, when Peters was working in sustainability with different neighborhoods in Cleveland. “I In Detroit, we’re working in the Corktown neighborhood, where Ford has been developing Michigan Central, a new mobility innovation district around the old train station,” Peters said.

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Driving Your City Forward With Clean Electric Public Transportation

EV Connect

According to the World Bank, urban transportation is responsible for 12% to 70% of air pollution , and an estimated 7 million people die from urban air pollution each year. And that doesn’t include the cost of installing the necessary charging infrastructure to support electrification. Are You Ready To Drive Your City Forward?

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What to Expect with Charge Ready New York 2.0

EV Connect

Phase 2 of New York’s Charge Ready program launched on July 19, 2023 and expands the EV charging infrastructure across the state. Charge Ready New York 2.0 The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will invest $29 million in Charge Ready NY 2.0. What Is Charge Ready 2.0?

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The project will include 27 alternative fuel stations (16 CNG, 7 B20/E85, one B20, three Electric Charging) and deploy 373 alternative fuel and advance technology vehicles (235 CNG, 58 HEV, two LPG, two EV). Metropolitan Energy Information Center’s Midwest Region Alternative Fuels Project. Total DOE award: $14,999,658.