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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013.

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NY Governor Cuomo announces “Make-Ready” program for EV charging stations; >20K EV rebates approved

Green Car Congress

The Commission has already approved initiatives to encourage the zero emission’s market, including residential time-of-use rates for EV charging and annual per-plug incentives to buy down the cost of installing publicly accessible direct current fast charger stations.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

The studies also showed older drivers—those most likely to buy autos with infotainment systems—are much more distracted than younger drivers when giving voice commands. The studies are fifth and sixth since 2013 by University of Utah psychologists and funded by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. —David Strayer.

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Study: Four of five new-car buyers can charge EVs at home

Charged EVs

To understand how and where those new EVs will be charged, we need to look at the people who will buy them—and not the much larger pool of US drivers overall. To understand how and where those new EVs will be charged, we need to look at the people who will buy them—and not the much larger pool of US drivers overall.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

Either that, or we’d buy one from someone else who did,” he said. In 2013, the fastest bike was a Lightning Electric. McNeil, DEVC Secretary/Treasurer and now the sole member who hails from the early days, represents the technical core of this chapter. Fifty years ago, there were no EVs available commercially.