Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is becoming a major participant in The EV Project and will install 24 Blink electric vehicle (EV) chargers, provided by ECOtality, Inc., at select locations in “The Tennessee Triangle,” the 425-mile stretch of interstate highway that connects Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga.

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Tennessee Installation Charging Nashville 247

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2010

Eaton Corporation is collaborating with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on a prototype integrated solar-assisted electric vehicle charging station to be erected at EPRI’s research laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn. Simple block diagram of the SMART system. Source: EPRI. Click to enlarge.

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EPRI Eaton Tennessee Solar 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

General Motors Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre separately announced that Chevrolet will add five Texas electric utilities and five Northeast utilities to a Department of Energy development and demonstration program that provides Volts and charging stations to key utilities. Nashville, Tenn., The Drive will stop in Little Rock, Ark.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2011

ECOtality and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store unveiled the first Blink Direct Current (DC) Fast Charger in Tennessee at the Lebanon Cracker Barrel location. The stations are able to charge a battery to 80% capacity in under 30 minutes. The stations are able to charge a battery to 80% capacity in under 30 minutes.

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Tennessee DC Installation District of Columbia 170

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Believe it or not, weve crossed the two-year ownership mark with the Nashville-via-San Diego sourced 2010 BMW Z4. Discount Tire (Tire Rack) had them in stock and on sale, and would ship them to a local store in a couple of days. The charges including new sway bar linkages on both sides totalled $1,276.32.

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Convert BMW Singapore San Diego 95

Charged EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Scout Motors, the startup electric-truck maker owned by Volkswagen, took the wraps off concepts for its first two 4×4 models outside Nashville on Thursday evening. There’s a small front trunk, which Scout claims is large enough to store a bag of golf clubs, a cooler, and a gym bag. The new Scouts had a successful debut.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Clean Fleet Report spent a day driving the 2023 Outlander PHEV at a media-only event in Nashville, Tennessee, experiencing highways, country roads, city traffic and some sloppy, muddy driving. kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery is fully charged. The battery can be charged by plugging in to one of three charge speeds.

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Mitsubishi PHEV Plug-in Nashville 105