CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 23, 2022

Last week, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that New Mexico was the first state to submit its EV charging plan to the federal government, a requirement to get funding from the infrastructure bill’s EV charging fund.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 6, 2024

The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board voted 4-1 yesterday to reject a challenge to newly enacted clean car standards. These standards will bring more electric vehicles to the state and directly benefit New Mexicans. According to. According to.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 20, 2023

Report: Strong Clean Vehicle Standards Can Deliver $44 Billion in Health, Economic and Climate Benefits to New Mexicans SANTA FE, NM — New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham recently announced bold action which will give New Mexicans more electric car and truck options in the coming years, and a new report shows the state can […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 31, 2021

A few weeks ago, Ken Ortiz, the president of the New Mexico Auto Dealers Association, penned a letter to the editor of the Albuquerque Journal. The letter, which came 2–3 weeks after Tesla opened its first facility in the state, defended auto dealers’ practices and claimed that they’re actually better for the EV transition.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Electric vehicles are the next frontier in the clean energy transition, and we are committed to making charging EVs easy, convenient and affordable for customers. Powering 1.5

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In a previous article that’s sort of a Part 1 to this one, I covered some of the awesome things that are about to happen in New Mexico. In short, the southeastern part of the state is going to get a lot more stations from VW Dieselgate settlement funds, and they’re putting the stations in […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 20, 2024

A few weeks ago, I covered the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s announcement of NEVI charging sites. For those unfamiliar, the NEVI program is the federal program that gives money from the Infrastructure Bill to states to spend on charging infrastructure. The first of these stations are supposed to go.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. New Mexico. New Mexico Ohio. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The report found that 56 million scrap tires remain in stockpiles, mostly in Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia and Washington, half of which—New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas and Virginia—do not have active stockpile cleanup programs.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Why I Spend Time On This One of the things I like to cover here at CleanTechnica is upcoming DC fast charge stations. While in reality, the average EV driver will rarely use one, it’s still a big factor in whether someone will buy an EV. If you’re on the fence about buying an electric […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 29, 2024

Recently, I took a trip from New Mexico to North Carolina and then back to New Mexico. On the way out, I visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and on the way back I drove about half of the Blue Ridge Parkway before visiting the Smokies again and staying for.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Back in 2019, I took a ridiculous trip in Arizona and New Mexico. I was both in a vehicle ill-suited to road trips and driving on roads without good charging opportunities. In this article, I want to take a second look at that trip considering all that I’ve learned since.

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Plug in America

MAY 13, 2022

Advanced Clean Cars, also known as Clean Cars Standards, is a set of standards designed to put more zero-emission vehicles on the road and improve air quality. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the special authority to set state clean car standards that go above and beyond federal standards to cut tailpipe pollution.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 22, 2024

So, I set out for Socorro, New Mexico, a small town on I-25 with some cool places in easy reach of the CCS charger. After getting my first impressions on Friday, I set out the next day to see how the Kia EV9 performed on the open road. Everything went.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Some recent check-ins at an EV charging station in Roswell, New Mexico, reveal a big problem: copper theft. continued] The post When Fentanyl Cripples Your EV appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 26, 2024

In another recent article, I wrote about the experience of taking a Kia EV9 out on some backroad adventures in New Mexico. But, I also know that not everyone is interested in a review of a Kia EV. Many of us already have an EV we love, and many people.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. Transportation and.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2024

Growing up around El Paso and southern New Mexico, Guadalupe Mountains National Park has long been a place to go. As a kid, I spent a lot of Saturdays getting up early in the morning to go visit Pratt Cabin in McKittrick Canyon, and even got to go inside a.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 24, 2024

Southeast New Mexico isn’t always an easy place to visit in an EV. The big thing is that it’s oil country, just like west Texas (a place that’s separated from southeast NM by nothing but an imaginary line). Until just very recently, it was a total EV dead zone, even.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Some places are far ahead of others when it comes to DC Fast Charging (DCFC). In California, you almost can’t stick a random pin in a map without it being near a charging station. The same is true for much of the Eastern United States, as well as Europe and even China. Other places, like […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A recent op-ed floating around New Mexico newspapers argues against a looming state mandate to install EV charging at new. continued] The post Apartment EV Charging Needs To Be Cheaper To Install appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Owning a non-Tesla EV in New Mexico isn’t always easy. But, with two new stations opening in the last week, the interstate highways in one of the fifty […] Just four years ago, it was almost impossible to road trip around the Southwest with one. Since then, things have progressed more slowly than in other states.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

That’s the challenge I’ve seen as I’ve pushed for more EV charging in rural New Mexico. When it comes to EV charging, everyone wants someone else to do it. Businesses want a charging company to pay for the station.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Last year, I had high hopes for the future of EVs in New Mexico. The governor had recently gone to the small town of Socorro to announce a new EV charging station, which was important not only for Socorro, but for everyone that travels along the I-25 corridor without a Tesla (and this was before […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the western United States, there were two big transportation trends that made or broke a rural town. In the case of Mesilla, New Mexico, it was the dominant local settlement, with little Las Cruces even getting passed over by the confederates when they picked a capitol for their short-lived […].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

Eligible applicants include regional, state, local or tribal agencies, or port authorities with jurisdiction over transportation or air quality. Nonprofit organizations may apply if they provide pollution reduction or educational services to diesel fleet owners or promote air quality and clean transportation.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2024

The vehicle itself has been great, but I wasn’t able to charge at two Francis Energy stations in New Mexico, even after calling customer support. In a recent article, I wrote about problems I had charging a Kia EV9 I’m reviewing. This, in turn, led to me needing to charge.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 20, 2023

There’s an interesting geographical oddity for CCS drivers in southern New Mexico. If you want to drive to Phoenix, Arizona, it’s not that hard.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Clean Vehicle Tax Credits Clean vehicle tax credits kicked into high gear in 2023. New federal EV tax credits were expanded and updated, and credits for used and commercial EVs became available for the first time in January. New Mexico adopted the Advanced Clean Cars II standard (ACC II).

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 28, 2023

From where I’m sitting in New Mexico, it sure looks a lot like large cities like New York already have enough. After all, it already has a lot more charging than our whole state has!

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For me, I was a high school student on a 40-mile journey to class in rural New Mexico. Everyone old enough to remember 9/11 has a personal story of where they were and what they were doing when they found out about the attacks. It’s a hard memory to forget, right? In some ways, I […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Sometimes, I think I have it bad as an EV driver in New Mexico. Only very recently did all of the state’s interstate highways get CCS charging, and many popular U.S. highways in the state don’t have any charging at all, not even from Tesla. In the past, if I wanted to feel better about […]

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In the past, most of my EV travels have been in New Mexico and Arizona. On those trips, I saw EV fast charging stations at Walmart stores, convenience stores, shopping centers, and restaurants. What made those locations great is that they both help you with your human needs (bathroom, food, water) and perhaps give you […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On one trip, I went up to Monjeau Lookout near Ruidoso, New Mexico, ascending and then descending a rutty and sometimes rocky dirt road. […]. Off-pavement EV adventures can be pretty fun, and I’ve experimented with it some myself.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from the US’ existing fleet of diesel engines. Grant funds may be used for clean diesel projects that use: EPA-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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