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Fuel Reduction Resources

by jrosselli on June 29, 2010

There are many ways to reduce a company’s carbon footprint, but it isn’t necessarily restricted to business activities. Allowing and encouraging employees to carpool to and from work is easy and beneficial in that it promotes an environmentally friendly attitude while bringing employees closer together. iCommute is an excellent example of the San Diego regions efforts in this area, and while there are alternatives such as ZimRide, iCommute is locally ‘grown’ and offers a ‘Guaranteed Ride Home’. Please read below, visit the website: www.icommutesd.com , email: carpool@sandag.org , or call (619) 688-6489 for more information.

iCommute San Diego : SANDAG

icommute carpool Fuel Reduction Resources

Share your daily commute and save! Carpooling is a fast and easy way to reduce your commuting costs by 50 percent or more. Share driving costs and avoid traffic as you cruise along in the carpool lanes or I-15 Express Lanes, which carpoolers can use for free. Park and Ride lots also are free and are a great place to meet your carpool or vanpool. You’ll save time and money, save wear and tear on your car, and help to save the planet. Your employer may even have a designated carpool parking spot waiting for you.

RideMatcher

With RideMatcher, your ride share partner is just a click away.RideMatcher is your green light to enjoy all the benefits of carpooling. RideMatcher is a database of thousands of commuters looking for carpool partners just like you – friends, neighbors, and co-workers who live and work where you do. To get your free, personalized list of potential rideshare partners, sign up for RideMatcher today.

TripTracker

Log your trips. Track your savings. Get more green. If you carpool, you can track the savings to your wallet and the environment with TripTracker. TripTracker allows you to log your trips, then instantly see both your financial and your environmental savings.

By going green you can actually get green. By using TripTracker on a routine basis, you’ll be eligible to be entered in monthly prize drawings. Plus, the more you log your trips with TripTracker, the more your savings will add up. Not only will you see what you save, but you’ll help to prove that the San Diego region is growing greener over time. That can literally mean more funding for transportation programs like new HOV lanes.

Guaranteed Ride Home

No worries. You won’t get stranded. By carpooling three or more times each week, you also can take advantage of the Guaranteed Ride Home program, ensuring that you’ll always be able to get home when you need to.

Park and Ride Lots

Just park and go. Conveniently located throughout the region, Park and Ride lots are free and a great place to meet your carpool or vanpool.

For more information about Park and Ride lots throughout the region, please contact Mike Roy, Caltrans District 11 Park & Ride Coordinator, at (619) 688-6489.

For more information, dial 511 and say ‘iCommute’ or e-mail carpool@sandag.org.

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Charged2020: The Global Energy Storage Forum

by jrosselli on June 21, 2010

Charged2020: The Global Energy Storage Forum

Driving sustainable innovation along the energy storage and smart-grid value chain

30 June – 1 July 2010, University of San Diego, USA

Addressing today’s energy storage challenges:

This annual senior executive summit will bring together key business leaders, senior technologists, battery entrepreneurs and venture capitalists along the energy storage value-chain.

The aim is to discuss strategic challenges and opportunities for creating a sustainable energy future through developing cutting-edge technologies.

Apart from best practice cases studies and interactive panel discussions led by key players of the battery and energy storage industry, this summit will provide a unique and exciting opportunity for delegates to network with their peers across multiple industries along the value-chain.

Hear experts speak on:

Developing cutting-edge energy storage and smart grid innovations

Designing high-performance energy storage technologies that are safe, low-cost and reliable

Establishing successful strategies for the commercialization of energy storage and smart grid technologies

Enhancing battery innovation through successful value chain integration and collaboration

Meeting the challenges of new standards, market discontinuities and regulation

Aligning smart grid and battery R&D to the marketplace to attract venture capital and government funding

The Charged2020 forum will be officially inaugurated by the Mayor of San Diego,
Mr Jerry Sanders on 30th June 2010.

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Electric Taxi Fleet

June 17, 2010

Source: Vancouver Sun
SHENZHEN, China — In a bid to get a fully electric car on the road with appeal beyond the “green market,” China’s BYD, Build Your Dreams, has taken one big step ahead of most of its competitors.
In May, the small automotive company, which U.S. financial wizard Warren Buffett put on the map when [...]

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Odyssey; October 15th 2010

June 9, 2010

National AFV Day Odyssey
The Journey Continues

National AFV Day Odyssey

A biennial event dedicated to promoting cleaner choices in transportation!

The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) undertook this project because of the critical need to support the alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) industry. More public awareness is necessary to help ease our dependence on foreign oil, and we [...]

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2010 San Diego Clean Cities Progress Report

May 15, 2010

The 2010 San Diego Clean Fuels Coalition Survey is currently underway, we are gathering data regarding many organization’s alternative fuel/advanced technology fleets in order to complete our 2010 annual report for the Department of Energy (DOE) Clean Cities Program. The DOE uses this data to report to Congress, as required by the Energy Policy Act, [...]

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Grid-Scale Energy Storage and Renewables Integration

May 12, 2010

STORAGE WEEK 2010:
The Premier International Networking Hub for Grid-Scale Energy Storage and Renewables Integration
July 12-15, 2010 | Rancho Bernardo Inn | San Diego, CA
Four Integrated Events  Exploring  the  Accelerating Opportunities in Energy  Storage! Four Meetings in One Week  Covering  All Aspects  of a Game-Changing Set of Technologies & Applications Worth  Billions  in Future Market Share
#1. Community Energy  Storage
#2. Making [...]

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Future of the Electric Car in Southern California – UCSD Event for San Diego Community – May 27

May 9, 2010

5-27-10 EPBF Future of the Electric Car (Business and Community)
Environmental Policy and Business Forum
Future of the Electric Car in Southern California
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Please join us for our spring Environmental Policy and Business Forum (EPBF) at the School of
International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) as we discuss policy and practical implications of
the future of the [...]

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EarthDay Clean Fuel Vehicle Showcases

May 2, 2010
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San Diego EarthWorks will be presenting their annual Earth Fair on Sunday April 18th at Balboa Park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Clean Fuel Coalition and San Diego Regional Sustainability Partnership will be in attendance on the west side of the Cleaner Car Concourse. There will be information on various clean fuel organizations [...]

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Lawn Mower Trade-in: May 1st

April 26, 2010
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County of San Diego:
Cut down on pollution while cutting your grass.  It’s possible by switching to the right mower, and this Saturday is a great chance to make the move.
The 11th Annual Lawn Mower Trade- in Event is scheduled for May 1, 2010 in the north parking lot of the County Administration Center, 1600 Pacific [...]

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EcoCAR Challenge

March 29, 2010
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The San Diego Clean Fuel Coalition will be assisting Argonne National Labs in the EcoCAR Challenge – the 2010 EcoCAR Challenge Competition is May 17-27, 2010 in Yuma, Arizona and San Diego, CA. The Outreach event will be held May 24-25 in San Diego at the Westin Gaslamp. For more information please visit the EcoCAR Challenge [...]

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