Hertz will try out wireless EV chargers from Plugless Power

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in

Hertz will be the first rental car company to try out a wireless recharging system for its fleet of electric-drive vehicles.
Hertz, whose fleet includes Nissan Leaf battery-electric vehicles and Chevrolet Volt extended-range plug-ins, will install the system at its headquarters in Park Ridge, NJ, this month. Virginia-based Evatran is the maker [...]

Accusations of “another Solyndra” pull the plug on new vehicle chargers in small town

Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, Green Culture

With a population of around 14,000, Mill Valley, CA is too big to be called a one-horse town. The real question is whether it will become a two-EV charging station town.
That question that was up for consideration at the September meeting of the Mill Valley town council. The city’s planning [...]

Nissan Leaf road tour gets help from a diesel truck with 440V chargers

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, AutoblogGreen Exclusive

Diesel Trailer used on the Nissan Leaf tour – Click above for high-res image

Remember the16-foot hydrogen support trailer that followed the Hydrogen Road Tour from California to Vancouver last year? Yeah, that showed how the infrastructure for H2 vehicles just wasn’t available in places the tour wanted to go. [...]

2011 Dodge Charger’s rump revealed on a t-shirt?

Filed under: Budget, Sedan, Performance, Dodge, Design/Style

It’s entirely possible. The crowd at the Mopar Nationals last weekend noticed something odd about the T-shirts handed out for the event. Parked among the usual suspects of Plymouth/Chrysler/Dodge lore sat a car that few folk recognized. It just might be the next-generation Dodge Charger. The internets have been [...]

Ford teams with Coulomb Technologies to provide 5,000 in-home EV chargers

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Ford
Ford has teamed up with California-based Coulomb Technologies to give away free charging stations to early customers of its electric vehicles, starting with the Transit Connect Electric.
Coulomb is spending $37 million to install 5,000 of its Chargepoint stations in nine markets including Austin, Texas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, FL., [...]