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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

Promotion for NDEW event in Clay, New York. Plans for the September 25 through October 3 event have been made around the country to take full advantage of this opportune climate. Gifts are in the offing, too, including the distribution of Visa gift certificates of varying amounts at many events across the country.

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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

Promotion for NDEW event in Clay, New York. Plans for the September 25 through October 3 event have been made around the country to take full advantage of this opportune climate. Gifts are in the offing, too, including the distribution of Visa gift certificates of varying amounts at many events across the country.

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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

Sponsored by the EAA and Plug In America , DEED featured events in 34 states , as well as Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic. DEED event on St. Ribbon-cutting ceremony at DEED event in Lonoke, AR. minute film about their very well-attended event. DEED event in Waco, TX. “We

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

We had a lot of folks coming up to us at events who weren’t real happy with the space we were taking up in the parking lots,” recalled Kevin Douglass, the HEAA Communications Director who formerly served 10 years as chapter president. Just don’t bring your Tesla HEAA meets at TX/RX Labs , a Houston makerspace. “We No Teslas allowed.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions Quickly Is the Goal – Not Quarter-Mile Times (Commentary)

EV Adoption

Last week Tesla revealed that its new Model S Plaid EV could reach a speed of near 200 MPH and reach 0 to 60 MPH in 1.99 In fact I drive a Tesla Model S 100D which is pretty damn fast – much faster than what I need or use. Excuse me if I don’t get all giddy with excitement. Our public streets are not race tracks.

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Don’t stop the EV music

Electric Auto Association

The only EV he was familiar with was a golf cart, so he tried playing around with that, and eventually converted a Beck into electric.” Later, he began selling used parts and kits for EV conversions, and eventually that included salvaged used Tesla batteries as back-ups for off--grid solar living systems.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

After a succession of carefully staged events for media and the public, we now know that the 2022 GMC Hummer EV will include at least two models: a sport utility truck (or SUT), with four doors and a short pickup bed, and a more conventional SUV. Before Tesla, they were seen as nerdy golf carts, far from usable as “real cars.”

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