Unlikely City Claims Nation’s Largest Electric Car Share

Retirado do site GreenTechMedia:

"Katherine Tweed: June 13, 2013

Far from high-tech Silicon Valley or hipster Austin, Texas, the largest all-electric car-sharing service is being built.

If your second guess is Portland or Brooklyn, keep guessing…and moving inland. Indianapolis, the nation's twelfth largest city, will install 1,200 charging stations at about 200 locations to support 500 electric vehicles. The project is expected to be up and running within a year.

Indianapolis is hardly a hotbed of alternative transportation. It does have a bus system, but “we have one of the worst ranked bus services in the country for a city our size,” said Paul Mitchell, president and CEO of Energy Systems Network (ESN), a nonprofit clean technology initiative that is working on the EV project in Indianapolis. It was not one of the twenty-one metro areas chosen by the Department of Energy as part of the EV Project.

UK pilot testing for a world of EVs

Retirado do site FierceSmartgrid:

"May 22, 2013 | By Barbara Vergetis Lundin

My Electric Avenue, Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution's (SSEPD) project studying the impact that recharging electric vehicles (EV) may have on the local electricity network, is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. It promises to deliver real, significant benefits on both commercial and technical levels through the engagement of customers, distribution network operators (DNO), small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and companies new to the electricity industry, while pushing the currently accepted boundaries of innovation.

Torres Vedras pode tornar-se autossustentável em 2015

Retirado do site Portal das Energias Renováveis:

"19-05-2013

O concelho de Torres Vedras, onde residem 80 mil pessoas, produz mais de metade da eletricidade que consome e pode tornar-se autossustentável em 2015, devido à existência de fontes de energia renováveis.

Dados da Direção Geral de Energia e Geologia (DGEG), disponibilizados pela autarquia, revelam que as várias fontes renováveis existentes no concelho já contribuem com a produção de 250 gigawatts (GW) para as necessidades anuais de consumo, que são de 336 GW.

Electric car drivers could overload power grid, admits French energy chief

Retirado do Daily Mail:

"Warning comes after Renault launched electric car with mass potential
Government has been encouraging technology with generous subsidies
French grid already sensitive to demand spikes due to electric heating

By LEON WATSON

PUBLISHED: 14:14 GMT, 26 March 2013 | UPDATED: 07:35 GMT, 27 March 2013

France's under pressure power grid could struggle to cope if growing numbers of electric car owners all recharge their batteries when they sit down for dinner, the industry said today.

The warning comes after French car-maker Renault launched its long-awaited electric car Zoe this month at a price on a par with petrol models, making it the first electric vehicle with mass-market potential. 

Electric Bus Picks up Passengers ... and Energy

Retirado do site Engineering:

"Tom Lombardo posted on March 18, 2013

Many years ago I bought a rechargeable battery-operated toothbrush with its own charging cradle. I noticed that there were no electrodes on the toothbrush or the cradle, and for a moment I wondered how it charged through the plastic. In a flash of inductive reasoning (sorry - I couldn't resist) I realized that the charging cradle and the toothbrush must be magnetically coupled. (This was long before iPhone charging pads.)

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Wattmove: a luta de uma microempresa de Aveiro para tornar a economia verde lucrativa

Retirado do site GreenSavers:

"Publicado em 19 de Março de 2013.

A economia verde “não é lucrativa, em Portugal, e ainda há muito a fazer” para que seja. Apesar da afirmação não augurar nada de bom para as empresas que actuam na área do desenvolvimento sustentável, mobilidade e energias renováveis, a frase pertence a uma empresária do sector, Cristina Montez.

Em 2008, Cristina e um sócio, Rui Fonte, lançaram a Wattmove, uma empresa com sede em Aveiro e especialista em mobilidade sustentável e eficiência energética. “O lema da empresa é a sustentabilidade. Pretendemos crescer de forma sustentável e promovendo serviços que promovam, cada vez mais, a qualidade de vida urbana”, explicou Cristina ao Green Savers.