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Al Gore Joins Call for Electric Cars
Buried in Al Gore's challenge today calling for a 100% renewable electric grid within ten years is a call for plug-in electric cars. Tags: plug-in cars al gore battery electric car An electric vehicle fleet would sharply reduce the cost of driving a car, reduce pollution, and increase the flexibility of our electricity grid.
Plugs and Cars
- Thursday, July 17, 2008
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Al Gore plugs electric cars on Daily Show
Al Gore has probably been presumed to be a long-time booster of electric cars, but it hasn't always been so. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive - Al Gore Extended Interview Pt. Tags: al gore battery electric car Now he's sees a EVs a'comin'.
Plugs and Cars
- Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Gore's group on board with plug-ins
The Alliance for Climate Protection, Al Gore's group, has taken another step toward promoting plug-in cars (all electric cars and plug-in hybrids) with its RePower America campaign. Let's hope Al Gore's been saying as much to President Obama (doesn't that sound great!).
Plugs and Cars
- Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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What about the Pickens Plan?
Pickens plan can be viewed as a logical criticism of Al Gore’s plan for 100% renewable electricity within ten years because it doesn’t do anything about our petroleum dependence. Gore’s group’s TV ads, (almost as ubiquitous as Pickens’,) have recently begun to mention petroleum addiction but still offer no solutions.
Plugs and Cars
- Thursday, September 25, 2008
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Electric Car Salute to Al Gore in Oslo
City cars and at least one RAV4 EV, turned out in large numbers to salute Al Gore, lining Oslo streets as he drove (in a gasser) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Here's to hoping that Al Gore took a look out the window as he drove past. Tags: nobel peace prize greenhouse gases global warming arnold schwarzenegger al gore
Plugs and Cars
- Friday, December 21, 2007
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Conference confirms plug-in fever
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. wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.
Plugs and Cars
- Thursday, July 31, 2008
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Al Gore Versus the Rare Earth Metals
Let's imagine for a moment that Al Gore's wish is granted and we all gave up our fossil-fuel guzzling, carbon-dioxide spewing cars in favor of efficient, gas-electric hybrids , like the Toyota Prius. While endangered penguins celebrate the re-growth of the polar ice caps, and we all enjoy watching the executives at Exxon Mobil trade in
All Cars Electric
- Monday, August 31, 2009
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Al Gore's First Ride in a Plug-In Hybrid
Capping our recent meetings with Bill Clinton, senior Dept of Energy team and others, this week our car became a "green-tuned" limo for Al Gore for a round-trip between Oakland Airport and downtown Berkeley. Gore came to give a public endorsement of Proposition 87. We hope Gore's experience will lead to him highlighting PHEVs.
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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Al Gore/Google/NRDC Choose Electricity & Plug-Ins: Videos & Quotes
On Sunday Al Gore continued by responding to a question about what to do about the auto industry with even more unequivocal comments on plug-in hybrids and using batteries to store intermittent renewable energy. SEE GORE VIDEO OR READ TRANSCRIPT BELOW: on journalist Fareed Zakaria's TV interview show, "GPS," [link]. GORE: Yes.
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Monday, November 24, 2008
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Al Gore: PHEVs a "Particularly Promising" Global Warming Solution
Include us among those who felt that while "An Inconvenient Truth" was an effective wake-up call, it fell short in giving audiences a vision of large-scale ways to address what Al Gore calls "Climate Crisis." 34; Former Vice President Al Gore. suggest the entire speech is worth reading.
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Tuesday, September 19, 2006