Friday, December 16, 2011

Mooresville, NC Possible EVSE Fire - Follow Up


To follow up from this blog a few weeks ago discussing a fire at a Mooresville, North Carolina home, it has been determined the fire was not related to an electric vehicle charging station error. Garland Cloer, the chief deputy fire marshal in the county of the house fire said this about the fire, “It’s still under investigation… It’s probably going to be the first of the year [2012] before we have a report.” (1) Duke Energy stated “it appears neither the plug-in car nor its plugged-in charger was to blame.” (2) A Chevrolet Volt was charging in the garage of the home when the fire took place. Until the cause of the fire had been determined, General Motors was offering a free loaner car to anyone who has concerns about their Chevy Volt.

(1) No Author Listed. (Nov 28, 2011). GM Offering Loaner Cars for Volt Owners Until Fire Cause Determined. WSOC Television. Retrieved from http://www.wsoctv.com/news/29872639/detail.html

(2) No Author Listed. (Dec 1, 2011). House Fire Investigators Say Chevy Volt Charger Not to Blame in North Carolina Blaze. Detroit Free Press. Retrieved from http://www.freep.com/article/20111201/BUSINESS0101/111201066/1330

Friday, December 9, 2011

Winston Salem Shuttles Back and Forth with No Emissions

The City of Winston Salem's Fleet Services has deployed a sporty new Vantage Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) for the Lawrence Joel Veteran's Memorial Coliseum, the city's entertainment and sports complex. The Fleet Services Division decided the NEV was a perfect fit to meet the unique needs of a sports entertainment facility. Since NEVs are zero tail pipe emissions and extremely quiet, they can drive the NEV indoors to help deliver supplies needed for events at the complex. Also, because it is street licensed, the NEV can be used to shuttle supplies from the Fleet Services office back to the sports complex, all without emitting tailpipe emissions. Even better is that the NEV can charge on a 110 volt outlet with no need of an EVSE.

Contact Vincent McAlexander at the City of Winston Salem for more information about their NEV: vincentm@cityofws.org or tel: 336-748-3960.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

City of Rock Hill's CNG Station Open for Business




Rock Hill, SC - The City of Rock Hill, a Carolina Blue Skies and Green Jobs partner, held a day long "Open House" on November 1st where the City unveiled it's new Operations Center, as well as a brand new fast fill, compressed natural gas (CNG) station.





The CNG station is open to the public and is available 24/7 for fill ups. The City will also use the station for its fleet of CNG vehicles. “We’ve been using CNG in our vehicles for years and have never had any issues with it. We love using CNG because it saves our citizens money and doesn’t pollute like our old diesel trucks did” said Marty Burr, performance manager for the City of Rock Hill.





The City of Rock Hill received ARRA funds through the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities program to fund a CNG station, E85 and biodiesel pumps and convert three additional vehicles to run on CNG.




For more information on this project, please contact Andrew Epting at aepting@energy.sc.gov or 803-737-4082.