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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

Road rallies were held in Juneau, Alaska , where local and state elected officials riding the city’s first electric bus led the way, and in Muskegon, Michigan , where 70 participants in 40 cars, motorcycles, and a golf cart, navigated a 150-mile circuit from Muskegon to Holland to Grand Rapids and back to Muskegon.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. Texas understands how to set up energy markets, Douglass said. “We Unfortunately, when the assigned HEAA member arrived at the auto show with his Model S, security guards in golf carts quickly converged, blocking the entrance. Showing a home-brew EV. No Teslas allowed.

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Why The Ford F-150 Lightning Is The Most Important EV Ever

EV Adoption

Wait, you might be thinking to yourself, what about the Tesla Model S which single-handedly changed the image of EVs from glorified golf carts into fast as all heck, 300+-mile range, aspirational computers on wheels? And more than any other EV introduced to date, the Ford F-150 Lightning makes similar leaps in functionality.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

I cut the frame and extended it, and then a guy from the DEVC donated a golf cart motor,” he explained. “I This past October, he led the chapter in coming to the rescue of a 1981 Jet Electrica 007 , an electric car built in Texas that was scheduled for crushing in Southern California. Jet Electrica 007.