20 New EV Charging Ports Installed In Long Beach, CA – CleanTechnica

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PowerFlex recently collaborated with the Los Angeles County Internal Services Department and the Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) to install 20 Level 2 electric vehicle charging ports at the LACDA Carmelitos community in Long Beach, CA. While 20 EV charging ports might not sound like that much, they are part of a much larger goal Los Angeles County has to install 15,000 EV chargers on its own properties by 2035.

Ten of the new charging ports can be accessed by members of the public and ten are for Los Angeles County Development Authority fleet operations.

“As the County’s energy lead department, our role is to ensure that our decarbonization strategy is deeply rooted in social equity. The Carmelitos project site represents more than just an EV charging deployment; it symbolizes the County’s commitment to prioritizing sustainable infrastructure in historically underserved communities,” said Michael Owh, Director of the County of Los Angeles Internal Services Department.

Level 2 chargers deliver about 25–35 miles per hour of charging. EV owners can do other things when using this type of charger, such as shopping, dining, working, reading, listening to a podcast, talking on their phone, or blending several activities.

Powerflex installs commercial solar power, energy storage systems, microgrids, and EV chargers. The company’s headquarters is in San Diego.

Long Beach and LA have some of the worst air quality. “This year, L.A. and Long Beach once again ranked as the nation’s most ozone-polluted metro area by the annual State of the Air report put out by the American Lung Association. The area has been at the top of the list for nearly the entire 19-year history of the report. People who live near the harbor suffer from higher asthma rates and face a higher risk of developing cancer from air pollution than do people living elsewhere in the region.”

Some electric vehicle critics like to claim that EVs run on electricity powered by coal. Not in California, where most electricity is from clean sources. “Governor Gavin Newsom today announced California achieved an historic milestone – the state was powered by two-thirds clean energy in 2023, the latest year for which data is available. California is the largest economy in the world to achieve this level of clean energy.”

There aren’t any coal power plants operating in CA and the little electricity imported into the state from other states with coal power plants is set to be ended. “One of the most consequential moments in California’s drive to beat back climate change will take place next month. The state will stop receiving electricity from the Intermountain Power Plant in Central Utah, meaning our reliance on coal as a source of power will essentially be over.”

Electric vehicles do not directly generate toxic air emissions so they are better for reducing air pollution that harms human health and the planet.

The American Lung Association laid out a vision of using clean electricity to operate electric vehicles to improve air quality. “The report includes a target of 100% zero-emission new passenger vehicle sales by 2035, coupled with non-combustion electricity generation. Cumulatively, the health benefits shown through our modeling of this scenario hit nearly 90,000 premature deaths avoided because the air pollution from these sources will be greatly reduced, though not eliminated fully. We used a series of modeling tools to arrive at these results, and for the health benefits specifically, we used the US EPA’s COBRA model for health benefits analysis.”