An announcement from the Oregon Department of Transportation prompted me to take yet another look at the electric-vehicle charging station the City of Albany had installed downtown.
No garage with a charger? No problem
Written June 19th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
In a story two years ago, I wondered about how to charge electric vehicles at home when the owners don’t have garages with outlets, let alone fast chargers.
Scouting EV chargers and finding Oregon duds
Written February 7th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
This was a first: Never before Monday afternoon had I seen a car sitting in the space reseved for Albany’s city-owned public EV charging station downtown. But there’s more to the story than that.
Getting a charge downtown? Still checking
Written January 30th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
The City of Albany’s public electric vehicle charger downtown is on my riverfront bike route, so I look at it every few days, wondering if it’s working again.
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Tags: Albany charger, charging problems, electric vehicles, EV chargers, Motor Trend, Penney lot, Water Avenue
Tags: Albany charger, charging problems, electric vehicles, EV chargers, Motor Trend, Penney lot, Water Avenue
Future Oregon road trips: A question of charge
Written November 5th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Unless our current state politicians are replaced before then and the policies and rules are changed, in Oregon you won’t be able to buy a conventional new car in 13 years.
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Tags: Albany charging station, cars, charging stations, electric vehicles, fuel-driven vehicles, quick charge, road trip, vehicles
Tags: Albany charging station, cars, charging stations, electric vehicles, fuel-driven vehicles, quick charge, road trip, vehicles
A vehicle-charging station for downtown
Written July 5th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
If you have an electric car, pretty soon you’ll be able to park it in downtown Albany and charge the batteries — unless somebody else has had the same idea and got there first. In which case you’d have to wait your turn.
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Tags: Albany Revitalization Agency, CARA, charging stations, downtown Albany, electric vehicles, J.C. Penney lot, Pacific Power
Tags: Albany Revitalization Agency, CARA, charging stations, downtown Albany, electric vehicles, J.C. Penney lot, Pacific Power
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Public EV chargers: A question of practicality
Albany is still waiting to hear whether it will receive a federal grant to pay for installing four more public electric-vehicle charging stations at key points in town.
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