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Electric-car charging station owners can now personalize their appliances with custom skins from Gelaskins.
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GE WattStation Vindicated, Leaf Blamed In Charging Station Woes
It isn’t a good time to be Nissan right now. For a start, its first all-electric car, the 2012 Leaf, is suffering from poor sales. Then there’s the matter of Leafs in hot states like Arizona exhibiting premature battery capacity loss to attend to. Then, over the weekend, more bad news...
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Nissan, GE, Working To Solve Leaf, WattStation Charging Woes
Plugging an electric car into a charging station might seem like a simple process, but sometimes even the simplest of processes can go wrong. Over the weekend, we heard reports of several cases of Nissan Leaf owners whose Leafs had sustained damage after charging at GE WattStation Level 2 charging...
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Electric Car Charging Stations: Now Available At Amazon.com
We’re not sure about you, but doing that last-minute holiday gift shopping can be a real pain, especially if you’re trying to buy something specific like an electric car charging station. But just like so many other gifts, books, gadgets and household items, the humble electric car...
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GE Becomes Solar-Powered Electric Car Charging Station Champion
Yesterday, GE Industrial Solutions announced the latest in a line of solar-powered initiatives and partnerships designed to help electric car owners power their cars with solar power: a distribution agreement with photovoltaic solar power specialist REC Solar. The agreement, which will see REC...
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Lowe’s: “Let’s Build An Electric Car Charging Station Together”
If you’re the kind of person who thinks that a fun weekend consists of redecorating your bathroom, landscaping your garden or perhaps making your own shelving units from scratch, you’re probably familiar with Lowe’s, the Home Improvement Store. But what you may not know is that as...
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Naming new car models is always tough. The latest head-scratcher is GM's decision to rebrand the replacement for its Aveo subcompact as the 2012 Chevrolet Sonic, a name better associated in the U.S. with hedgehogs or hamburgers. But that's nothing compared to the challenge of naming electric-car brands and models. Have all the good names now been snapped up? Not quite ... but let's look at what's already been claimed. 2011 Chevrolet Volt and Opel/Vauxhall Ampera "Volt" may be the single most familiar electrical unit to most consumers, so the unit of electrical power named after Italian...
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Need Juice? 7 Home Charging Solutions for Your Electric Car
You’ve read the reports, drooled over the spy shots and saved your pennies for an all-electric or plug-in hybrid electric car. But do you know how you’re going to charge your new car at home, the office or at your parents’ place? There are many different chargers available now or...
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