Green Options » Ted Kulongoski http://greenoptions.com/tag/ted-kulongoski Posts tagged 'Ted Kulongoski' Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:57:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Creating the Infrastructure of Innovation http://gas2.org/2009/08/06/creating-the-infrastructure-of-innovation/ http://gas2.org/2009/08/06/creating-the-infrastructure-of-innovation/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:57:02 +0000 Nathan Isaacs http://gas2.org/2009/08/06/creating-the-infrastructure-of-innovation/

August is hotter than ever for those of us who envision a future where the streets are populated with plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles and powered by renewable energies.

The month began with the unveiling of Nissan’s Leaf electric vehicle. On Wednesday, President Obama and the Department of Energy announced $2.4 billion in grants to fuel the development of the electric vehicle industry and reduce our nation’s dependence on oil.

Next week opens with the second annual Plug-In 2009 in Long Beach, Calif.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/08/06/creating-the-infrastructure-of-innovation/feed/ Th!nk Thinks Portland is a Nice Place to Build Electric Cars http://gas2.org/2009/04/08/thnk-thinks-portland-is-a-nice-place-to-build-electric-cars/ http://gas2.org/2009/04/08/thnk-thinks-portland-is-a-nice-place-to-build-electric-cars/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:39:57 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2009/04/08/thnk-thinks-portland-is-a-nice-place-to-build-electric-cars/

On the heels of a Nissan electric car press conference in Portland Monday, yesterday Norwegian electric car manufacturer Th!nk was wooed by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski and US Senator Ron Wyden as the place to site an electric car manufacturing facility.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/04/08/thnk-thinks-portland-is-a-nice-place-to-build-electric-cars/feed/ Test Driving One of Only Two Nissan Electric Cars Worldwide http://gas2.org/2009/04/08/test-driving-one-of-only-two-nissan-electric-cars-worldwide/ http://gas2.org/2009/04/08/test-driving-one-of-only-two-nissan-electric-cars-worldwide/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:31:46 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2009/04/08/test-driving-one-of-only-two-nissan-electric-cars-worldwide/

With one of Nissan’s senior EV project engineers sitting next to me, it felt like I was being expectantly doted on by a protective parent as I drove Nissan’s EV-02 electric test car around a closed course Monday. Given that the EV-02 is only one of two such cars in the world, the reaction was perhaps understandably warranted.

Earlier in the day Nissan had held a joint press conference with Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, Portland Mayor Sam Adams, and representatives from Portland General Electric, to further affirm Oregon’s burgeoning relationship with Nissan to be one of the first and premier locations for the company’s late 2010 electric car launch.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/04/08/test-driving-one-of-only-two-nissan-electric-cars-worldwide/feed/ Nissan & Oregon Team Up to Bring Electric Cars to the Masses http://gas2.org/2008/11/20/nissan-and-oregon-team-up-to-bring-electric-cars-to-the-masses/ http://gas2.org/2008/11/20/nissan-and-oregon-team-up-to-bring-electric-cars-to-the-masses/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:11:42 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2008/11/20/nissan-and-oregon-team-up-to-bring-electric-cars-to-the-masses/

In his keynote address at the 2008 LA Auto Show today, Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of Nissan-Renault, announced a wide-ranging partnership to develop electric cars and an electric car charging network with the State of Oregon.

Citing Oregon’s environmental leadership in developing the transportation infrastructure of tomorrow, Ghosn also said that Nissan would be releasing their first electric car for the US market in Oregon in 2010. After releasing electric cars in Oregon in 2010, Ghosn then affirmed that Nissan-Renault will bring an “entire lineup” of zero emission electric cars to the worldwide market by 2012.

I was in the overflow room watching Ghosn on a big screen when he announced all this, so nobody was clapping, but this is definitely some of the biggest news to come out of the LA Auto Show this year — if not the biggest.

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