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Plugs and Cars: Public Transit or Private Cars, It's All About the Fuel
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Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Public Transit or Private Cars, It's All About the Fuel. The following is an article I wrote in Earth Island Journal last year to answer the question "Public Transit or Electric Car? City of San Francisco. San Francisco recently became the first city in the country to mandate plug-in charging stations. For all new buildings. Only with an electric car could you aspire not only to zero-emission driving, but to making yo...
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Plugs and Cars: The electricity in gasoline
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Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary. Saturday, February 26, 2011. The electricity in gasoline. I just ran across the latest available data, from 2007, for the electricity consumption by petroleum refineries. The US is, hoorah, #1. Over 49,000,000,000 kWh. One electric car, roughly speaking, will use about 3000 kWh to go about 12,000 miles. That means the electricity. Alone we use to refine petroleum each year could drive over 16,000,000 electric cars 12,000 miles each year. I thin...
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Plugs and Cars: Who knew, part 2, 120V edition
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Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary. Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Who knew, part 2, 120V edition. Some more places to plug in. SFO now has 120V plugs available in each of its public parking garages. You'll need to provide your own cable; of course every new EV comes with one. Airports are one of the places 12oV makes lots of sense. Most cars sit for many hours, some for days at long-term parking. And it's very cheap to install, probably less than 10% the cost of a Level 2 unit. PlugSh...
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Plugs and Cars: The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)
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Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary. Thursday, March 3, 2011. The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come). I wrote back in December. About my unhappy experience attempting to charge my loaner LEAF at San Francisco City Hall's electric car charging stations. Parking in these Coulomb charge stations is restricted to city-owned vehicles and Car Share companies under threat of towing. A threat taken seriously in San Francisco. Being delivered. San Francisco's Departmen...
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Plugs and Cars: Who knew?
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Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary. Monday, April 11, 2011. A few more J-plugs have appeared in the San Francisco Bay Area, tho I challenge you to find out where they are. They are not listed on the DOE funded charge station project sites. Not on ChargePoint America/Coulomb's c. Harge station map. Nor on The EV Project/Ecotality's m. I did find one of the three on recargo.com. The units I found quite accidentally are Free Juice Bar. The Park 55 Hotel downtown; and the Expresso.
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Plugs and Cars: Biofuels surge under Obama?
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Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary. Thursday, December 18, 2008. Biofuels surge under Obama? Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, apparently can't be faulted for his dedication to dealing with climate change. Praise for the nomination ranges. From Greenpeace to the Union of Concerned Scientists. In Mother Jones magazine recounts his story and raises questions:. Berkeley will do lots of biofuels research because BP came up with the money. Bush threw one billion doll...
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Plugs and Cars: Gore's group on board with plug-ins
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Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Gore's group on board with plug-ins. I just saw this ad air on Meet the Press on today. It's great that plug-ins are getting their due even if the economy doesn't favor them. January 25, 2009 at 1:49:00 PM PST. Really very good blog for wow gold its really excellent. The content of your blog Is really superb. August 21, 2009 at 10:54:00 PM PDT. Cool blog as for me. Id like to read a bit more concerning this topic.
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Plugs and Cars: My Trial LEAF & the trials of public charging
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Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary. Wednesday, December 15, 2010. My Trial LEAF and the trials of public charging. I've got a LEAF for a few days. Very exciting. I'll have a full report soon. But I've got to mention one frustration I've encountered. Restricted charge stations. In San Francisco at this moment there are, I believe, six deployed new J1772 charge stations. One, a ParkPod. And why is the charging prohibited? I thought it should be controlled just like normal fuel....