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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

Plug in America

of Energy to Yale and MIT , that EVs are better for the environment from cradle to grave.) The fuel is cheap, The maintenance low, No emissions, It’s fast, not slow. Jose from Washington penned a poem about his previous BMW i3. Side note: There are lots of studies, from the EPA and Dept.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range. However, other automakers like BMW are quite unabashed about going after the luxury market which it terms “ white hot.” Buying a new car is the second most expensive purchase a consumer makes behind buying a house.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

Cars That Think

Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We BMW , Google , Samsung , and Volvo have all said they will not buy metals mined from such sources until the environmental impacts are better understood.

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