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Survey: 70% of Americans are electric-car virgins, same GM EV1 barriers persist today

Green Car Reports

Almost a decade after the first modern, mainstream, electric cars went on sale, myths and misconceptions persist. The majority of Americans surveyed—70%—had never been in an electric car. Power survey released Tuesday suggests that may be partly because most Americans still haven't driven an EV.

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Modern electric cars at 20: from EV1 to Bolt EV, where are we now?

Green Car Reports

Twenty years ago today, the very first GM EV1 electric cars were delivered to 40 lessees in California in a blaze of publicity. That first EV1 was a high-tech two-seater created specifically to meet California's then-current zero-emission vehicle rules.

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Hot New Hyundai IONIQ 6 Price & Specs Revealed For UK

CleanTechnica EVs

The Hyundai IONIQ 6 is Hyundai’s hot new electric car, a very sporty looking car that also has GM EV1 vibes. of new auto sales in the UK being plugin vehicles, and 20.6% With 27.7%

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Rolls-Royce eras in an all-electric plan by 2030, unveils Spectre EV

Teslarati

In a move that other high-end carmakers like Ferarri and Lamborghini have announced in 2021 also, Rolls-Royce becomes the most recent premier automotive brand to say it has a definitive plan to ax gas-powered cars, taking a sustainable angle at future vehicle models, starting with its Spectre EV that the company unveiled earlier today.

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Denmark Crushes 50% EV Sales Barrier — Now What?

CleanTechnica EVs

I wonder what characters like Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Hans Christian Ørsted, and Michael Faraday would think about the current shift in the world’s energy systems?

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Tom Hanks on his electric car

Plugs and Cars

Tom Hanks' letter to the editor of the New Yorker about his electric car, a Toyota RAV4 EV. Boyer, in his otherwise spot-on piece about the car industry, assumes that I once leased G.M.’s Boyer, in his otherwise spot-on piece about the car industry, assumes that I once leased G.M.’s Luckily, I did not. But not mine.

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Tom Hanks, The New Yorker — and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

We were delighted to see Tom Hanks’s letter in this week’s ‘New Yorker’ — singing the praises of electric vehicles and name checking ‘Who Killed the Electric Car ?’ Boyer, in his otherwise spot-on piece about the car industry, assumes that I once leased G.M.’s A letter in response to Peter J.