Denver relaunches popular e-bike vouchers and Polis proposes major new car-buying credits to promote clean electrification.
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Fast EV chargers are coming to remote Colorado towns in an effort to ease “range anxiety”
Utilities and state grants take on “range anxiety” with a technology innovation bringing rapid charging equity to far-flung locations
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Smells like a fossil fuel. Works like a fossil fuel. But these Colorado stations pump a gas with emissions less than zero.
The fuel that comes out of the gleaming pumps at X3CNG’s west Greeley station has the telltale smell of fossil fuel. It runs a big truck with the heavy-duty efficiency of a fossil fuel. But the impact of the transaction can be the opposite of burning fossil fuel. X3CNG and many of its competitors in […]
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After collecting $610 million from Colorado customers, regulators say it’s time to end Xcel’s pipeline repair fee
What was supposed to be a quick way to raise money to address pipeline safety issues, a little add-on of about $3 a month for the average household, has lingered on Xcel Energy natural gas bills for a decade – but it may finally end. Xcel has since 2011 raised nearly $610 million, or three […]
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Coloradans looking for EV battery recycling don’t have many places to go
The future arrives in Eric Sumpter’s back shop partially disassembled, in grease-stained cardboard boxes, looking a bit exhausted. Hybrid and electric vehicle batteries show up at MileHybrid Automotive because it’s one of the only places state officials can identify that accepts them for refurbishing. Or, if they’ve been folded like an accordion in an accident […]
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Colorado drivers could use a “coach” to get them to buy more EVs
One seldom-explained job of an electric-vehicle coach is to assure people they’re not seeing ghosts. Julia Moravcsik likes to take the EV-curious to the parking lot at National Center for Atmospheric Research, on Table Mesa above Boulder, and demonstrate her car’s “Smart summon” mode. With an all-electric Tesla, the driver can stand at the curb […]
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Opinion: Clean energy is the road forward to Colorado jobs and economic recovery, not just clean air
Since 2004 ━ when Colorado became the first state in the U.S. with a voter-approved renewable-energy portfolio standard ━ Colorado has been shifting toward clean, low-cost wind and solar. Since 2010, Colorado’s renewable-electricity generation ━ led by wind and solar ━ has more than tripled, accounting for 30% of the state’s total generation in 2020. […]
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Effort to force Colorado to cut greenhouse emissions faster exposes exasperation with Polis administration
For more than a year, frustrated Colorado lawmakers and environmental groups have struggled to push the Polis administration to move faster to meet mandated cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Now they are advancing a bill to set emission caps and deadlines — over the objections of the governor. The Senate Transportation and Energy Committee moved […]
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Opinion: On Earth Day, let’s get real about how to reach Colorado’s electric vehicle goals
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in 2018 set the goal of 940,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on the road in Colorado by 2030. As The Colorado Sun reported last week, this ambitious goal will require that Coloradans buy more than 100,000 new EVs a year through the end of the decade. To put that in perspective, Coloradans […]
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Here’s how Colorado’s free e-bike program fits into its plan to slow climate change
By Sam Brasch, Colorado Public Radio Growing up in Los Angeles, Shalon Bowens remembers looking forward to a new bicycle on Christmas morning. The gift was her ticket away from adults and out into the neighborhood, an excuse “to get outside and do something.” Bowens, who now lives in Denver, couldn’t help but recall that […]