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I-5 electric truck charging sites mapped out by electric utilities; West Coast Clean Transit Corridor

Green Car Congress

The first phase would involve installing 27 charging sites along I-5 at 50-mile intervals for medium-duty electric vehicles, such as delivery vans, by 2025. An additional 41 sites on other highways that connect to I-5 are being proposed for electrification. HDR completed the study. Proposed charging site locations.

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Air Quality: Easy to Measure, Tough to Fix

Cars That Think

Portland, Ore., I had the monitor installed, working, and connected to the Airthings app less than 10 minutes after it arrived at my doorstep, in June. These monitors don't require permanent installation, so they're suitable for renters as well as owners. Harry Campbell. The summer of 2020 brought wildfire to.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

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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Sandia study finds fuel cell barges may be attractive lower-cost cold-ironing solution for some types of vessels at some ports

Green Car Congress

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.; These include all the bulk liquid tankers, reefer vessels, both dry and break bulk carriers. —Pratt and Harris (2013). Los Angeles, Calif.;

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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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