Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence.

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Fleet Portland Charging Commercial 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

This practice in which a vessel at berth connects to a source of electricity on the shore is called “cold-ironing”, shore power or Alternative Maritime Power (AMP). Portland, Ore.; The US Navy has been employing grid-based cold-ironing for many years to save fuel. —Pratt and Harris (2013). Los Angeles, Calif.;

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Fuel Hawaii Hydrogen Honolulu 191

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem.

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58