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Polestar announces Single Motor Polestar 2 is coming to the U.S.

Teslarati

RELATED: Polestar aims for $20B valuation in planned merger with Gores Guggenheim. There are two additional packages available for customers to buy: “Plus” and “Pilot.” Polestar has only two vehicles currently, as the Polestar 2 joins the Polestar 1, a $155,000 hybrid coupe.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Grove made it clear one thing was glaringly missing from Gore’s plea: dealing with our national petroleum addiction. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C.,

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News Summary I

Plug In Partners

must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G.

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Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

Creative Greenius

If that’s too Al a Gore-ical for you then understand this – we have already reached the emergency landing point of our flight. So don’t buy another car until you can go electric. ” “Mom?” ” says the man, “Mom is on the roof… ” Guess what? That tipping point you’ve been hearing about?

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Gordon wants more electric cars :: KTAR.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It would create more jobs -- in the installation of charging stations here in the city and the Valley -- also we would be buying the cars and the U.S. Electric cars were in the works long before former Vice President Al Gores push for environmental change and before the recent brush with $4-a-gallon gasoline, said Perry.

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

Though he’d previously been too busy to focus on environmental concerns, he went solar in 2013 after seeing Al Gore’s global warming red-alert, “An Inconvenient Truth,” then bought a used Nissan Leaf two years later. He’s still driving that car. So here’s the serious part.

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2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N review: Sell your Tesla, sell your Taycan! This is the most fun electric vehicle ever

EV Central

But it could just as well go to 80,000rpm, because they’re only really imaginary revs, as much there for your benefit as the blood and gore in a video game. These machines are designed to be driven hard, and doing so will destroy claimed economy figures entirely. Score: 4.5/5

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