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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

National Drive Electric Week 2021 comes as the country turns toward EVs. Promotion for NDEW event in Clay, New York. Plans for the September 25 through October 3 event have been made around the country to take full advantage of this opportune climate. states and Canada. states and Canada.

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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

National Drive Electric Week 2021 comes as the country turns toward EVs. Promotion for NDEW event in Clay, New York. Plans for the September 25 through October 3 event have been made around the country to take full advantage of this opportune climate. states and Canada. states and Canada.

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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

Drive Electric Earth Day sets new records in attendance. Drive Electric Earth Day parade in Riverside, California. Electric Auto Association (EAA) chapters across the country participated in Drive Electric Earth Day (DEED ) throughout the month of April, and participation exceeded expectations seemingly everywhere.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We For the past two years, there’s been a whole lot more awareness and interest in electric vehicles (EVs),” Douglass continued. Showing a home-brew EV.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

The news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. Before Tesla, they were seen as nerdy golf carts, far from usable as “real cars.” Jaw-dropping specs.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

The late Jack Rickard of EVTV , a long time member of Gateway Electric Vehicle Association (GEVA), is something of a legend at the St. Back to the Beck Rickard explained that her father started converting cars to electric with a 1957 Beck speedster. I’m not sure where all of this will eventually lead,” Rickard concluded. “I’m

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Reducing Carbon Emissions Quickly Is the Goal – Not Quarter-Mile Times (Commentary)

EV Adoption

Excuse me if I don’t get all giddy with excitement. While this performance feat is certainly impressive, it detracts from the primary goal of electric vehicles which is to help reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector as quickly as possible. To be clear, I have nothing against automakers producing fast cars.

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