EV charger network doubles under Biden-Harris, $521M in new grants fuel expansion
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The Biden-Harris administration announced today that the number of publicly available EV chargers has doubled since Biden took office.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieThe Biden-Harris administration announced today that the number of publicly available EV chargers has doubled since Biden took office.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieAn Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieWith the Paris 2024 Olympic Games wrapping up, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass is in town to prepare the world for what the 2028 Olympics will look like in Los Angeles.
And one thing she’s promising, in a big surprise to everyone’s who’s even heard about the city of LA, is a “no-car Games,” using public transport instead of private cars to get around.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieIn a major milestone, July 28 marked the 100th day of a 144-day stretch in which California supplied 100% of its electricity demand with renewables.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieMercedes-Benz High-Power Charging will install 400 kW DC fast chargers at 100 Starbucks stores on the US West Coast.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieElectrify America (EA) has kicked off a pilot at 10 of its charging stations, limiting EVs to 85% state of charge to reduce congestion.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieIf a proposed new bill eventually becomes law, higher-speed electric bicycles may soon have a tougher row to hoe in California.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieSouthern California’s largest heavy-duty electric truck charging depot, powered by the US’s largest electric truck microgrid, is now online and fueled by natural gas.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieThe Sea Change, a hydrogen-powered catamaran ferry, just got Coast Guard clearance to operate commercially in the Bay Area.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieIn a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California’s main grid for 69 of the past 75 days.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieSunrun (Nasdaq: RUN) has networked more than 16,200 customers’ solar + storage systems to support California’s electrical grid during the summer months.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieGovernor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced on Saturday that there is now one EV fast charging station for every five gas stations in California.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieBrightline West, a future electric high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, broke ground today in Nevada.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieAvangrid (NYSE: AGR), one of the US’s largest clean energy operators, has begun construction on its first solar farm in California.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieA new study from UC Berkeley confirms what EV fans already know: EV adoption does, in fact, make the air cleaner. Perhaps even more importantly, the study offers some quantifiable, granular data about how much electric vehicles are impacting emission rates in the here and now, not just in the foreseeable future.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieHyundai just released the IONIQ 5 N’s price just a couple weeks ago, and a California dealer has already marked the MSRP up on the automaker’s newest, most powerful EV by $20,000.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieStellantis – the parent company of Jeep, Chrysler, Fiat, Dodge, and Ram – says that it will comply with California’s stricter emissions policy requiring two-thirds of new cars to be zero-emissions or all-electric by 2030 – and will commit to the deal even if former President Donald Trump makes a return to office and tries to dismantle the policy.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieHitachi and Penske Truck Leasing have launched a high-capacity electric truck charging pilot at a major commercial truck depot in California.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieSkanska is piloting a Wirtgen Group electric compaction roller, one of just five pre-production models in North America.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieThe Port of San Diego has put the first commercially available, large-capacity, electric forklift made in the US into service.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieRevoy EV’s electric trailer promises to make electrifying your OTR trucking fleet easy and cost-effective, and this one just pulled into the Port of Stockton ahead of the 2024 Trucking with Clean Fuels Conference.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieGlobal construction firm Skanska piloted the Volvo EC230, the largest electric excavator of its kind, on a big Los Angeles transit project – here’s what happened.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieElectric bike riders in California who don’t already hold a traditional car driver’s license may soon have a new option (or requirement) on their hands: an electric bike license.
Expand Expanding Schließen SieCalifornia hit a new record last year with 21.4% of new cars being all-electric, and once again Tesla led the pack with the two best-selling cars in the state, the Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model 3. But Toyota narrowly maintained its leadership as the top-selling brand in the state, with Tesla nipping at its heels.
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