Celebrating with car2go

Last night was car2go’s one year anniversary celebration in San Diego! San Diego is the first car2go city that offers an all-electric fleet. In the company’s first year here, more than 12,500 San Diego residents have become car2go members. Collectively, San Diegans have taken more than 200,000 trips around town. With an average of 5,000-6,000[…]

San Diego Gas & Electric Fleet Forum

On Nov. 29, 2012, at 8:30AM, SDG&E in Kearny Mesa will host their next Fleet Forum. The speaker for the event is William Walls of Smith Electric Vehicles, which supplies medium and heavy-duty trucks to companies such as Frito-Lay and Fed Ex. He’ll share his insight about fleet operations with commercial electric vehicles. Location: SDG&E[…]

Odyssey Day 2012 Wrap Up

Odyssey Day 2012 was a great success. There was an amazing turnout of people and everyone seemed to have a lot of fun. Attendees heard presentations about alternative fuels and had the chance to look at an impressive and diverse fleet of alternative fuel vehicles.  Pictures of the event are below. Thanks to all the[…]

U.S. EPA School Bus Rebate Program

Dear Clean Cities Stakeholders, San Diego Clean Cities Coalition wants to let you know about an exciting funding opportunity for school districts. There’s a new rebate program from the U.S. EPA to fund diesel emission reductions. The rebate program is designed to provide a more streamlined mechanism to fund replacement of older medium- and heavy-duty[…]

SAE Fast DC Charging

SAE International recently approved a new technical standard that will dramatically reduce charging times for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and electric vehicles (EV).  Developed in a consensus environment by more than 190 global experts representing automotive, charging equipment, utilities industries and national labs, J1772™: SAE Electric Vehicle and Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Conductive[…]