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Electrify America selects Long Beach and the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles for $25M investment

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Electrify America selected Long Beach and the Wilmington neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles as its second “Green City” investment. The Green City investment is part of Electrify America’s commitment to invest $800 million in California over ten years.

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Neighborhood Electric Cars

Electric Cars are for Girls

Neighborhood electric cars like the Zenn, high-speed three-wheeled electric cars, and low-speed electric vehicles all fit here.

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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

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Gil Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory outlined his vision of a critical solution to the energy, climate and ensuing national security threats facing the US: the Net-Zero Neighborhood (NZN). The Net-Zero Neighborhood. Net-Zero Neighborhoods. An Energy Plan Only A Scientist Could Love or Net-Zero Neighborhoods or ?

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car to Begin Offering Electric Vehicles in US

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car will begin a phased introduction of electric vehicles (EVs) at select offices throughout its neighborhood network of more than 5,000 US locations. In addition to the LEAFs, the company will offer customers electric vehicles from other manufacturers as they become available. and Seattle.

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EV Penetration in My Utah Neighborhood

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Those of us who follow electric vehicle sales know that fully electric vehicles accounted for more than 80% of Norway’s. continued] The post EV Penetration in My Utah Neighborhood appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Hertz ordering 100,000 Teslas by end of 2022

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Today, 40% of US consumers say they are likely to consider an electric vehicle the next time they are in the market for a new vehicle, according to Pew. Hertz was the first US car rental company to introduce EVs to its rental fleet in 2011 and the first to implement a wireless charging system for electric vehicles.

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ChargEVC: New Jersey plug-in electric vehicle registration up 79% for MY 2016 vehicles over 2015

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Registration of model year 2016 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in New Jersey was up 79% over 2015, according to a recent analysis by ChargEVC , a diverse coalition of organizations and companies that support growth of the electric vehicle market. Interest in these cars is growing.