Plugs and Cars

Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Downtown South San Francisco electrified

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Four electric vehicle charging stations were unveiled today at a new parking structure in downtown South San Francisco. The Coulomb J-plug/...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

More SF Bay Area Charge Stations....some work

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Once again, charge station serendipity. I arrived a couple of days ago at the parking garage beneath One Montgomery Tower in the LEAF with...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

FIRST-EVER plug-in prius! Really?

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A story on Toyota's announcement that an ordering system for the plug-in prius will be coming later this year prompted me to check out ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Who knew, part 2, 120V edition

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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 cab...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

CHAdeMO DC Fast Charge network coming to Norway

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The Norwegian energy company Ishavskraft yesterday unveiled its plan to make the stunning vistas of Norway's isolated fjords accessible ...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Who knew?

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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 D...
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

"Transmission Losses" - The Cost of Bio-fuels

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The Times has story of the consequences of crop production for bio-fuels: higher food prices and tragic irony. ...last year, 98 percent of c...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Public Transit or Private Cars, It's All About the Fuel

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[The following is an article I wrote in Earth Island Journal last year to answer the question "Public Transit or Electric Car?." ]...
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Transmission Losses: 100 mile oil slick in Gulf

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The Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Deepwater Horizon site. Acc...
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Automakers continue to face challenges caused by quake

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Nissan may have to ship engines from Tennessee to Japan. Honda is extending the shut down at its shuttered plants. Worries about Prius suppl...
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Monday, March 7, 2011

PlugShare creates guerilla network to charge electric cars

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For years we've been hearing there's a chicken/egg situation with EVs. Consumers, it's often suggested, have rejected plug-in ca...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

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I wrote back in December about my unhappy experience attempting to charge my loaner LEAF at San Francisco City Hall's electric car charg...
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"Transmission" Losses: Billion Dollar Fuel Theft

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After nearly a decade of mismanagement, theft and fraud, the U.S. military still hasn't found a way to staunch the flow of what is likel...
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Saturday, February 26, 2011

The electricity in gasoline

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I just ran across the latest available data, from 2007, for the electricity consumption by petroleum refineries. The US is, hoorah, #1. Ove...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

iMiev #1 in Norway

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Norway's EV enthusiast site Electricaid reports that iMiev is #1 in Norway. In its small car segment in January, the little electric out...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

"When money flows from the ocean floor"

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In January 2007 it was reported from Davos that Shimon Peres was in talks to bring an electric car factory to Israel. I wrote : It's abo...
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Obama rolls out EV strategy

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At EnerDel's Indiana battery plant today, VP Biden outlined the administration's EV strategy. The Obama administration is calling f...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Mercedes Pleads for More Handouts for Hydrogen

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While governments scrape together money to roll out a public charging infrastructure for the plug-in cars that are already being delivered t...
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Monday, January 3, 2011

LEAFs arriving by the truckload

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LEAFs are beginning to arrive by the truckload. Seven drove in to a SoCal dealership this morning.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

EV Ownership Shortcut?

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Here's an unexpected opportunity to purchase an EV, especially if you've had a hankering for a Th!nk City. According to the Seattle ...
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