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Solar-powered streetlights could bring curbside charging to city neighborhoods

Baua Electric

Two companies—AmpUp and EVSE—announced recently that they had been contracted by the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting to add 150 chargers to streetlight poles in the city. That’s part of a mayoral target to add 10,000 streetlight EV chargers throughout the City of Angels.

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Parking EVs In Driveways and on the Street: Implications for EV Charging

EV Adoption

While I was aware of this trend — I see it loud and clear in my own neighborhood — I hadn’t realized how wide-spread this trend actually was in the US. In my own neighborhood I see several EV drivers with long cables from Level 2 chargers in the garage, and extension cords presumably from a 120 Volt outlet. Volker, Calvin G.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

I could drive a Class 8 truck over a light-duty charger, and it will activate one pad of that truck and still charge. It’s in the pavement at a bus stop in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Charged : Tell me about your Kansas City International Airport project. And we’re like, “Yeah, that’s the point.”