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New York City adding 70 electric vehicles to fleet; launches EV educational push

Green Car Congress

New York City is adding 70 electric vehicles to its fleet: 50 new Chevrolet Volts, 10 fully electric Ford Transit Connect cargo vans, and 10 new fully electric Navistar E-star utility trucks. The NYPD already uses electric scooters and electric powered golf carts on boardwalks, in parks and some transit hubs. Click to enlarge.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Why grant them the privledge to spend our money in the first place? The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. You guys go ahead and buy your 40 mile per charge GM golf cart. This is what they do and always have done. Why cant they just pull out the EV1 again?

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Surprising, Unsettling, Surreal: Roaming Through Saudi Arabia

Baua Electric

I was chauffeured around in an electric golf cart — past 43 beachside “dune” villas and onto two long boardwalks that connect the rest of the resort to 47 “coral” villas, built on stilts over shallow turquoise water. Regis Red Sea Resort. It was, in a sense, an artificial island built where a smaller natural island once stood.