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Al Gore Joins Call for Electric Cars

Plugs and Cars

Buried in Al Gore's challenge today calling for a 100% renewable electric grid within ten years is a call for plug-in electric cars. We could further increase the value and efficiency of a Unified National Grid by helping our struggling auto giants switch to the manufacture of plug-in electric cars.

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The REAL Climate Change Debate: Are All Deniers Evil or Are Some Merely Ignorant?

Creative Greenius

The video was auto-scrubbed by YouTube after Watts claimed the video broke YouTube’s copyright rules. But that is as big a crock as the mustachioed weatherman from Fox who slanders Al Gore, climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, the UN Scientists who won the Nobel prize, and who proudly believes that global warming is a hoax.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

Cars That Think

John Shegerian: When we got into the industry [in 2002], Al Gore had not yet won his awards for “ An Inconvenient Truth.” On the other side, engineers are still going to be hired by great OEMs, whether tech or auto companies, and that's beautiful because now they could design an engineer for circular economy behavior.

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

“I literally forced her to fill a car with gas just to have the knowledge, skill and horrible experience,” Darell says. “She’s put gasoline into a car twice in her life now.” He’s still driving that car. ICE cars are about to become the flip phones of transportation.”

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

For all the fanfare, sales of electric cars are currently negligible (outside of golf courses, that is). Which electric-car developer counts former U. Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Match the auto maker with its electric car: A.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

The good news about electricity as a transportation fuel for cars is finally breaking through to the mainstream. For reasons political and economic, cars and trucks and busses remained tethered to petroleum. But we can use the electricity generated with each to power plug-in cars. But we find ourselves in 2008.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

so-called “clean hydrogen,” including incentives for both its manufacture through less emissive processes (it has heretofore primarily been created using natural gas , which often comes from “fracking”) and for the purchase of vehicles – not only passenger cars such as the Toyota Mirai but commercial trucks and vans. and a third).