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Toyota bZ4X crashes into the ocean after the driver forgot to put the EV in park [Video]

Baua Electric

A Toyota bZ4X drove itself off a pier and crashed into the ocean just north of Boston after the driver forgot to put the EV in park Wednesday. Gerry, Cardona, the other passenger, was still inside and escaped through a window, he told NBC Boston. “We We came over here to have some lunch,” Cardona said.

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The Buck Stops With Who? Reuters Events Confront Scope 3 Emissions in Hard-To-Abate Sectors.  

Baua Electric

Companies are getting on board, with 81% of businesses surveyed by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) measuring their direct emissions “to some extent” in 2021. To win the war on carbon it is key to understand who is producing the gas, how much they are producing, and how it can be minimized.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Well, if you can communicate info over the wire, why bother with the wireless? The only way to do this would be to have the device somehow communicate over the wire an identifier and then the charger could match the identifier over the wire with the identifier over the air and know they are the same device.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I The following article has more info on these great electric cars: [link] — Green Machine42 1 2 Next » Add your comments.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Posted by: Nido Info | Apr 14, 2009 12:45:31 PM wrong Howard. We are only 5 years off from having the technology to do so if it gets the funding instead of the oil companies. Of course the pattens the oil companies own need to be taken away and sold to companies that will actually put the technology to use.

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