electric vehicles

A Big Papi company could be about to get a no-bid state contract to install EV chargers

By adamg - 7/25/24 - 9:43 am

Horizon Mass reports David Ortiz is an investor in a Florida company called Charge Fast Power that could be about to get a no-bid MassDOT contract for $100,000 to install six EV chargers - but with an option for 50 more, which would make the contract worth closer to $1 million. The site says MassDOT officials couldn't really say why they felt they had to whip up the contract now without soliciting bids or waiting for the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to complete its study of how to dole out $9.5 million in federal funds for EV chargers that would work with mobile phones.

Citizen complaint of the day: The people in college who used to take your laundry out early are now doing the same thing with EV chargers

By adamg - 3/30/24 - 12:53 pm

An irate citizen with an EV filed a 311 complaint this morning about somebody else with an EV who prematurely unplugged the irate citizen's EV from a charger in the municipal lot behind Centre Street in JP - despite only having been plugged in for an hour.

Council approves rollout of curbside EV chargers

By adamg - 3/1/24 - 4:21 pm

The City Council this week approved a measure under which the city will hire two companies to install 250 chargers along Boston streets to let people without their own driveways top up their battery-powered cars. Read more.

Boston looks to expand number of EV chargers; seeks bids from companies willing to install them at the curb

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 3:06 pm

Boston today announced plans to expand its EV charge network beyond municipal parking lots to include streetside chargers that would let even apartment dwellers consider replacing their gas-powered cars with electric models - to meet an ultimate city goal of having chargers within a ten-minute walk of every Boston resident. Read more.

Dorchester man gets a real charge out of zoning hearing

By adamg - 3/14/23 - 1:57 pm

Diagram by RODE Architects.

Matthew Malloy of Ocean Street in Dorchester really, really wants to buy an electric vehicle. But he doesn't have a driveway and ISD has warned him that if he tries to run an extension cord over the sidewalk to a car parked at the curb, he'd get fined.
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