All Posts Tagged With: "electric vehicles"
Will Boeing’s 787 Battery Issues Ground Electric Vehicles, Too?
The batteries found in EVs are distinctly different from those in consumer electronics or the 787. Sure, they are all lithium-ion batteries, but that’s where the similarities end. There are different chemical ingredients for each application.
7Feb2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Electric Vehicle Wiring Requirement for New Homes in Boulder County
In an action that became effective in the New Year, Commissioners adopted the most recent—and progressive–building codes for energy efficiency and added requirements that all new homes be wired for electric vehicles and solar panels.
8Jan2013 | admin | 4 comments | Continued
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles Make Rapid
Progress in Range, Durability
The report communicates the results of the National Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Learning Demonstration — the world’s largest single FCEV and hydrogen fueling infrastructure demonstration to date — which generated data from more than 500,000 individual vehicle trips covering 3.6 million miles.
12Aug2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State Legislature Approves Bill to Enable More Electric and Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Stations
The new law will allow electric vehicle charging stations, natural gas (CNG/LNG) and propane to be sold for alternative fuel vehicles without being regulated by the state Public Utility Commission.
25Apr2012 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Drive Like the Wind
Many people think of electric vehicles as electricity consumers. But the PNNL researchers say a partially charged vehicle sitting at work or at home represents a potential asset for grid operators; a vehicle’s ability to start and stop charging, to adjust for varying windpower, could serve as a shock absorber on the grid.
27Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Market for Electric Vehicle Charging Equipment Gaining Momentum
Electric vehicles are being delivered by the thousands each month. The power delivery infrastructure that enables vehicles to charge at home, at the workplace, and in public spaces is simultaneously being rolled out.
30Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Boulder and Partners Celebrate Successful Energy Efficiency Innovations
“In 2006, Boulder adopted the Climate Action Plan, which challenges the community to meet the Kyoto Protocol goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012,” said City Manager Jane Brautigam.
16Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
EPRI REPORT: Electric Vehicles Not a Great Threat to the Grid
Even if EVs were to constitute 20% of the US car market, less than a 0.01% chance would exist of overloading healthy transformers, according to a new report from the Electric Power Research Institute released this week.
20Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
DOE Praises and Promotes Electric
Vehicle Market
$25,000, 350-mile-per-charge electric car could be reality within six years, according to the Feds. At Friday’s gala event, Secretary Chu and local officials in L.A. flipped the switch on the 500th electric-vehicle charging station installed by Coulomb Technologies as part of its ChargePoint America network.
15May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Energy Collective is now based in Boulder Colorado. 
Though a small step and almost over 16 years into the die-off of our forests, this effort should be applauded ...
The best ballot initiative is one that will ban initiatives. Otherwise what is the point of electing legislators. 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
Tri-State Board Policy 117 limits member co-op generation to 5%.
LPEA has asked them to lift that for community solar gardens.
https://www.lpea.coop/pdf/board_meeting/resolutions/2012/201213_tristate_policy_117.pdf 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...