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Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Is Revving Up

November 21, 2019
Source: Greenbiz
Utilities are eyeing vehicle-to-grid technology as a way to help fortify the grid and reduce operating costs while meeting renewable-energy goals, making use of the batteries in vehicles that spend more than 90% of their lives off the road and unused.
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Opportunity Zones Could Boost Clean Energy

November 21, 2019
Source: Finance and Commerce
Opportunity zones, part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, allow investors to place their capital gains in legally established funds for projects in economically distressed areas defined by the federal government. A secondary attribute, appealing to clean energy developers, is that opportunity zone funds can be used for solar, microgrids, electric vehicle charging stations and energy storage.
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The Oil Age Is Coming to a Close

October 31, 2019
Source: Bloomberg
The oil industry faces an uncertain future. The world is rapidly waking up to the severity and immediacy of the threat from climate change. At the same time, electric vehicles are getting cheap enough to compete with internal-combustion engines.
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Electric Bus Fleets Are the Latest Tool for Improving Air Quality

October 18, 2019
Source: Greenbiz
While the bus market historically has been dominated by internal combustion engines, electric buses are increasingly popular in transportation headlines. More and more, transportation agencies are setting sunset timelines for the purchase of diesel buses and announcing goals to transition to zero-emission fleets — primarily through bus electrification.
Traffic on a street in Hunan Province, China

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What Can the United States Learn From China’s Robust EV Development?

Moises Escobar
October 16, 2019
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Although China’s conventional auto industry has never matched that of nations like Germany, Japan or the United States, the nation has managed to outpace rivals in the production and adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). Last year, the majority of all the world’s electric cars were sold in China. China’s electric vehicle purchases exceeded U.S. sales by 2015 and in 2018, over 1.1 million electric cars were sold in the country.
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Public-Private Partnership Opens Door to Electric Car-Sharing in Massachusetts

October 04, 2019
Source: Energy News Network
The collaboration, which begins with installing public charging stations, aims to make electric transportation more accessible.
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Colorado Joins California in Requiring Automakers to Sell More Electric Cars

September 04, 2019
Source: CNBC
Colorado has become the 11th state to adopt California’s zero-emission-vehicle mandate forcing automakers to sell more electric cars in the state.
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‘Smart Charging’ Needed to Help Manage Electric Vehicles’ Toll on Power Grid

August 22, 2019
Source: Energy News Network
Several utilities are testing new programs and technology to encourage drivers to fill up batteries during off-peak hours.
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A New EV Horizon: Insights from Shenzhen’s Path to Global Leadership in Electric Logistics Vehicles

August 01, 2019
Source: Rocky Mountain Institute
"In this report, we explore Shenzhen’s experience in the deployment of electric urban delivery vehicles and take on one of the most important questions to accelerating adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in urban delivery: How to effectively provide them with charging infrastructure? To answer that question, this report uses a unique data set with complete driving records of over 10,000 electric delivery vehicles in the city of Shenzhen, supplemented by dozens of interviews with the companies that own and operate those vehicles."
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Ford, VW Confirm Plan to Expand Collaboration to Include Autonomous and Electric Vehicles

July 18, 2019
Source: CNBC
The expanded alliance now will add two of the most significant, albeit costly, technologies expected to dramatically reshape the global auto industry over the coming decades.

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