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Nissan leads with transfer of California ZEV credits out for year ending 30 Sep 2014

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Nissan led with California ZEV credit transfers out during the last report period. Between 1 October 2013 and 30 September 2014, Nissan transferred out 663.6 ZEV = Zero Emission Vehicle, e.g. fuel cell or battery electric. NEV = Neighborhood Electric Vehicle. Click to enlarge. ZEV credit transfers in.

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DOE AVTA Completes 1M Miles of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Testing

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The US Department of Energy (DOE), through its Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity ( AVTA ) at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), has completed 1 million miles of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) testing. The eTec/Nissan project will document more than 70 million miles of electric drive vehicle operations and more than 1.8

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. Given the rapid uptake of electric vehicles, many people are thinking hard about how to make the best use of all that rolling battery power. But big automakers like. This is good for the grid.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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The case, morally and even financially, for an all-electric car is becoming stronger and stronger. He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. A lot of current and upcoming electric cars are in the 300-mile range. But your experience would likely be you would get in your electric car.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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The case, morally and even financially, for an all-electric car is becoming stronger and stronger. He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. A lot of current and upcoming electric cars are in the 300-mile range. But your experience would likely be you would get in your electric car.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

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Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car. In nearby Silicon Valley, companies are ordering workplace charging stations in the belief that their employees will be first in line when electric cars begin arriving in showrooms. Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car. Photo by Jim Wilson, New York Times.