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Consider bi-directional charging and put in wiring for a 100A; we will in future be ev charging at home with DC

See if you can get your hands on the Honda HEMS system we have a demo house here at UCDavis, CA all the technical info is available at: http://www.hondasmarthome.com/tagged/hems

Have you heard anything about the Google car? watch the last minutes of the CARB presentation The latest Sacramento Electric Vehicle Association general meeting from 11 March 2015 is now up on YouTube (links from Facebook, the website or YouTube directly are below)...

We don't even have a local Kia EV dealer in the Greater Sacramento area - also when considered that this is the capital of California, the city with CALEPA and Air Resource Board. Unbelievable. I have a local (Davis) Kia dealer who wants to sell electric cars and Davis would be a great location...

We also have a great ev club in Northern California for the greater Sacramento area: http://www.sacev.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and I film and post our bi-monthly meetings to my YouTube channel; we always have a great range of topics if interested please look at the...

J1772 will only put AC into the car. ClipperCreek has a 32 Ah charger and some even higher ones but only the Tesla could take advantage of them and Leviton has a 40 Ah charger (for the new Rav4 EV). Most of our evs now are in the 28 -32 Ah range for AC charging and you would have to use QC if...

merger is fine with me. just remember the last post there was on Jan 2, 2012

Just got off the phone with Costco Corporate Office Assistant VP for Buildings/Energy Controls in Issaquah, WA: According to him no one wants chargers at Costcos. But they will put in chargers if there is a demand and they have recently installed chargers at 2 Costco locations in CA. The way...

Every DC QC can be adjusted within a time and charge frame in our area we make sure QCs shuts off after the 80% or the 30 min are reached. Contact the owner and request a change. It should be this way everywhere. These chargers should be used for range extension and not permanent parking. We are...

There is still a transformer there. If the Solar Panels are turned off it works fine And it seems that the Solar System is putting DC onto the ground busbar. A solar company is looking at it hope it is up soon

Hello, this is a local discussion opportunity for evs along the I-80 corridor (Northern CA between Bay Area and Sacramento). As some of you know the current Eaton QC is non-operational; it was incorrectly installed into the line after the solar panel inverter and before the transformer. It is...

We had about 10 Leafs at our local event in Folsom (near Sacramento, California). Dealer also showed up so that was cool. Nissan showed one of their new test cars, the e-NV200 (short video is under Sac ev meeting from September - link in signature). More at...

You can see the Soul in a short video at the beginning of our local EV meeting (Sacev.org) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rBawxJyfQI&list=UUnLIQ1taqUOPZ9TQRvKCfZQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and some comments by the CARB speaker, I guess about 30 minutes EVSplusSOLAR.org

for an update on rebates watch the SacEVA meeting video CARB Mark Williams - about 30 minutes into the video if I remember correctly first he talks about the Kia Soul EV and then the rebate here is the link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnLIQ1taqUOPZ9TQRvKCfZQ/videos"...

Yes, that is correct they even have a webpage through Nissan, although one can't get any info from them http://nissanqc.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; e