{"id":295628,"date":"2010-02-08T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1287\/chicago-area-gets-wind-powered-ev-charging-station.html"},"modified":"2010-02-08T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T04:17:00","slug":"chicago-area-gets-wind-powered-ev-charging-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295628","title":{"rendered":"Chicago area gets wind-powered EV charging station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chi-wind\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/chi-wind.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Windy City area is capitalizing on its most famous attribute with a new wind-powered electric vehicle charging station.\u00a0 Located in Highland Park, 30 miles outside of the city, the charging station uses electricity generated by Illinois wind farms for law firm Emalfarb Swan &#038; Bain.<\/p>\n<p>The charging station is the second in the country and the first in the continental U.S. to be powered by wind.\u00a0 The other station is located in Maui, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The charge port was installed by <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/15cnQ\">Carbon Day Automotive<\/a>, a distributor of the EV-charging leader Coulomb Technologies.\u00a0 Carbon Day has also created a Solar Charge-Port that not only juices up EVs, but also collects, filters and recycles storm water through a greywater filtration system for irrigation use.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/15cnQ\">Green Car Advisor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/jdefsywc8a8\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windy City area is capitalizing on its most famous attribute with a new wind-powered electric vehicle charging station.\u00a0 Located in Highland Park, 30 miles outside of the city, the charging station uses electricity generated by Illinois wind farms for law firm Emalfarb Swan &#038; Bain. The charging station is the second in the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}