{"id":3725,"date":"2018-05-09T16:12:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2018-05-09T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:12:36","slug":"charge-on-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2018\/05\/09\/charge-on-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Charge On, Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CC has taken another step toward the goal of expanding its electric vehicle infrastructure to make charging more accessible campus wide.<\/p>\n<p>CC has installed a dual-head (two-car capacity) ChargePoint electric vehicle charger just north of Tutt Library.\u00a0The parking is open to members of the CC community and outside community members, as it is on the national\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/na.chargepoint.com\/charge_point\">ChargePoint network.<\/a>\u00a0The cost per hour to charge is 75 cents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that there are more electric vehicles on the roads and\u00a0higher demand for charging facilities, it made sense to upgrade to the newest system, so now we\u2019ll have more charging spaces,\u201d says Ian Johnson, director of the Office of Sustainability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jim Burness \u201990,\u00a0<\/strong>CEO of National Car Charging, cut the ribbon on the new electric vehicle charger as part of the Earth Week celebrations. Burness\u2019s company is working to improve the electric vehicle infrastructure in cities like Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>The company has worked on projects across the nation to jumpstart electric vehicle use by providing the necessary infrastructure. Burness says he\u2019s passionate and enthusiastic about this issue in Colorado Springs and even helped CC use tax credit savings to subsidize the new charging station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CC has taken another step toward the goal of expanding its electric vehicle infrastructure to make charging more accessible campus wide. CC has installed a dual-head (two-car capacity) ChargePoint electric vehicle charger just north of Tutt Library.\u00a0The parking is open to members of the CC community and outside community members, as it is on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2018\/05\/09\/charge-on-tigers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charge On, Tigers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-kudos","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2018\/05\/EVCharger.jpg?fit=1200%2C798&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}