Opening of EVI Worldwide Headquarters in Stockton
The state of California is known to be a national leader in environmental goal, ecology and green business movements. Now we are going one more step ahead with Electric Vehicles International (EVI) opening their new worldwide headquarters and primary U.S. manufacturing facility in Stockton. EVI will design and assemble zero-emissions, all-electric, medium-duty delivery vehicles and light-duty vehicles using EVI electric motors and controllers manufactured at this facility. This way the EVI company will provide 150 direct green jobs. Continue reading Clean Cars and Green Jobs coming to California
Basic information
San Diego is the second largest city in California and the ninth largest in the United States. It is located along the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of the U.S.
This coastal city is a county seat of San Diego County and the economic center of the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos metropolitan area.
The population in the city is 1,27 million, but in a whole metropolitan area over 3 million.
According to Forbs Magazine San Diego is the fifth wealthiest city in the United States.
City History
Spanish era and city’s name
The area of San Diego has been inhabited for more than 10 000 years by the Kumeyaay Indians. The first European to visit this place was Portuguese-born explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailing under the Spanish Flag. In 1542. he claimed the bay for the Spanish Empire and named it San Miguel.
In 1602. Sebastián Vizcaíno was sent to map the California coast. He arrived on his flagship San Diego and named the place after the Catholic Saint Didacus(Spanish San Diego). Very soon the first Christian religious service in Alta California was held here to celebrate the feast day of San Diego (November 12th).
In 1769. Gaspar de Portola established the Fort Presidio of San Diego. At the same time Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded by Franciscan friars and by 1797. the mission boasted the largest native population in Alta California with over 1400 neophytes living in and around the mission proper. Continue reading San Diego
