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Heading to Leo Carrillo State Beach to catch a few waves? Now your electric car can do the same. Electric vehicles parked at Leo Carrillo, and at Malibu Creek State Park farther uphill, can catch some alternating current electrical wave action from newly installed electric car chargers unveiled Thursday by California State Parks.
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A new whitepaper from Southern California's largest utility describes how the company's preparing for our electric car future
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An effort by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) to promote customer installations of chargers for electric cars was so successful that the utility is expanding it. DWP will be offering rebates up to $750 for residents and businesses in its service area who install fast charging stations.
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If this works out in the real world, say goodbye to electric car "range anxiety." At an event in Hawthorne on Thursday night, Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk demonstrated a way his company's Model S electric cars can be "recharged" in less than half the time it takes to fill a 25-gallon gas tank.
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If you're like most people considering an electric car, you might have found it hard to estimate what it'll cost to drive the thing. But now the Department of Energy has made that comparison a little easier.
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Cars and trucks are still the largest source of air pollution, but regulations have changed that smog's chemistry. The air doesn't make us cry as often as it used to.
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Tesla Motors announces that it will triple its available public charging stations by the end of June, with a coast-to-coast network in place by the end of the year.
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The first battery-powered electric buses in the north part of the state are rolling out in Stockton.
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A Los Angeles-based company that builds charging stations for electric cars has been sold, making its new owner the largest electric car charging station network in the U.S.
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Fisker Automotive is testifying before a congressional committee to answer questions about that loan, which Republicans are calling "Solyndra on Wheels."
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The California Energy Commission has awarded $17,223,593 in grants intended to promote cleaner-fueled vehicles in the state of California.
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As a pilot project, they are installing four electric vehicle charging stations at five Park-and-Ride facilities starting in mid-January.
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A manufacturer of a crucial component of electric cars gets carved up and sold off at auction.
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West Hollywood is upgrading its existing electric car charging stations.
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It might be a bit easier to charge your plug-in electric car in California before long, thanks to $341,045 in grants from the California Energy Commission to increase the number of charging stations statewide.
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You'll be able to fast-charge your Tesla Model S for free, for life, using solar electricity, at any of the network of Supercharger stations the company is building across the country. If, that is, you ever get your hands on one of the cars.
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The Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and some of California's most conservative farming businesses teamed up to support the state's recent ethanol ban.
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On this list of the U.S.'s 10 most EV-friendly cities, only one California metro area shows up -- and Texas and Tennessee have it beat.
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The White House announces tough new mileage standards for passenger cars and trucks, and it may mean a brighter future for solar electricity.
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A set of reports by UCLA's Luskin Center tackle how we can make it easier to charge electric cars in Los Angeles.
News and analysis about renewable energy in California. Blog host Chris Clarke is an environmental writer of two decades standing. He currently lives in Joshua Tree and can be contacted at: rewire@kcet.org.
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