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Electrify America and the City of Sacramento announced new projects that will increase access to zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) in the Sacramento region, expand ZEV technology use, and prepare the City for future electric vehicle adoption. mile “Home Zone.” EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE.
The SMUD (2020 Sacramento Municipal Utility District) Board of Directors adopted a climate emergency declaration that commits to working toward an ambitious goal of delivering carbon-neutral electricity by 2030.
has opened the first electric vehicle charging station in West Sacramento, CA. The DMC-owned charging station, featuring a Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Networked Charging Station, is the first of 40 DMC charging stations now in contract scheduled for installation throughout California. DMC Green , Inc.
million in grants to Community Fuels, the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to support their alternative fuels programs. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District will own, operate and maintain the charging stations. The California Energy Commission approved more than $5.1
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) conservatively estimates that 130 million electric vehicles (EVs) will be on the road globally by 2030. As the number of EVs grows and especially as larger trucks and buses electrify with larger batteries, there will be opportunities to use those batteries also to support the grid.
In addition, the program funds projects that assist in fulfilling Governor Brown’s Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) Action Plan, with a target of installing enough infrastructure to support 1 million ZEVs by 2020, and a 2025 target of having 1.5 15 million for medium- and heavy-duty electric truck and hybrid vehicle demonstration projects. $12
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The three alternative fuels projects will receive funding through the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP), which supports technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on petroleum-based fuels. million in fuel and electricity costs over 25 years. Modoc County: $1.1
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announced at the New York International Auto Show that they are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker to announce the planned use of Hohm, starting with the Focus Electric next year. Ford Motor Company and Microsoft Corp. —Ed Pleet.
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As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. First of all he’s already gone where I want to go by installing solar, back in 2007.
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Sacramento chapter supports museum exhibit. The SacramentoElectric Vehicle Association (SacEV) has a history of holding chapter meetings at the California Automobile Museum , but until last year, it was on a very occasional basis. Right now, we’re working with Woodland, a community north of Sacramento,” Dunlap explained.
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Thigpen at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and published in The Journal of Transport and Land Use (Note: study PDF will automatically download) estimated that 37% of the households in the Sacramento, CA market they studied do not use their garage for parking cars. They include Urban Electric , Trojan Energy , and Rolec.
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