Louisiana Clean Fuels Has A Master Plan for EV Charging

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:58:33 +0000

Louisiana Clean Fuels, an independent nonprofit affiliated with the US Department of Energy’s Clean Cities program, is helping Louisiana electric vehicle owners by creating a master plan for DC fast charging.  The goal is to create easily accessible charging spots for electric vehicles that are not Teslas (but Tesla owners can use them as well) throughout the state along the state’s Interstate highways

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Another Fun Louisiana National Drive Electric Week Event

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 16:23:11 +0000

Louisiana hosted several National Drive Electric Week events, and I got to go to two of them, the Abita Springs one last week and the Gonzales one today. In Gonzales, Plugin Louisiana and Louisiana Clean Fuels teamed up with Tanger Outlet Mall to help bring awareness about electric vehicles and clean energy. I got to tag along with Karen Rudisil, owner of a Tesla Model

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New Orleans Tesla Service Center Is Close To Ready

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 11:00:02 +0000

Tesla’s New Orleans service center may soon be here. Right now, it’s in “coming soon” mode on the Tesla website. In 2018, The Times-Picayune first reported that Tesla would opening a service center in New Orleans. Tesla is renovating an existing warehouse lot on Tchoupitoulas Street to provide space for new vehicles ready for delivery. In plans Tesla filed with the city, the center will perform maintenance and repair services for Tesla vehicles and be a delivery point for new vehicle orders. This information came from

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Live Music + EVs + Beer = Abita Springs Drive Electric Day

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 23:49:25 +0000

Abita Springs Drive Electric Day was held on Sunday, September 15, and was a part of the nationwide celebration of EVs known as National Drive Electric Week. Abita is known for its wide range of local brews. One of my favorites is Purple Haze, another is the holiday edition, Creole Cream Ale (which can’t get here quick enough!)

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Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana, weakens to tropical storm

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 22:59:27 +0000

Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana, weakens to tropical storm

NEW ORLEANS – “Barry” rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that could test the levees and pumps that were bolstered after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.

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Millions in line of punishing rain from Tropical Storm Barry

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 05:11:16 +0000

Millions in line of punishing rain from Tropical Storm Barry

NEW ORLEANS  — People boarded up buildings, stocked up on water and braced for torrents of rain and punishing wind from a strengthening

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‘It’s powerful’: Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:26:51 +0000

'It's powerful': Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana

Homeowners sandbagged their doors and tourists trying to get out of town jammed the airport Friday as Tropical Storm Barry began rolling in, threatening an epic drenching that could test how well New Orleans has strengthened its flood protections in the 14 years since Hurricane Katrina.

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4 toddlers escape daycare, run loose near highway

Credit to Author: khallare| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:55:55 +0000

4 toddlers escape daycare, run loose near highway

Four toddlers in Louisiana, USA, were found to be on the loose near a highway, after they were reported to have escaped daycare. The toddlers, all aged 1 year old, was spotted by a passerby outside of a fence near the busy Louisana 44  Highway, local media WAFB 9 first reported on Wednesday, April 5. […]

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