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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

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. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C.,

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81% of EVs Sold in 2023 Still Qualify for the Federal EV Tax Credit

EV Life

Based on these new rules, several vehicles will no longer qualify for the IRA tax credit, including the Nissan Leaf, BMW X5 xDrive45e, Genesis Electrified GV70, Rivian R1S and R1T, and plug-in hybrid Volvos and Audis.

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News Summary I

Plug In Partners

must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G.

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Gordon wants more electric cars :: KTAR.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Mark Perry with Nissan said the idea of people tooling down the interstate in an electric vehicle is no longer a pipe dream. Perry said, Nissans electric car "is completely highway capable. So Phoenix, as I said when I announced the plan, will lead by example." One, the battery technology has improved.

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Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

Creative Greenius

If that’s too Al a Gore-ical for you then understand this – we have already reached the emergency landing point of our flight. So far GM, Toyota, Nissan, VW, Mitsubishi, have all announced plug in vehicles they will have for sale in 2010. ” “Mom?” That tipping point you’ve been hearing about?

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

Though he’d previously been too busy to focus on environmental concerns, he went solar in 2013 after seeing Al Gore’s global warming red-alert, “An Inconvenient Truth,” then bought a used Nissan Leaf two years later. He’s still driving that car. So here’s the serious part.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Connect the investor to the electric-vehicle developer: A. Fisker Automotive. Tesla Motor. Bright Automotive. Reuben Munger. Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Warren Buffett. Match the auto maker with its electric car: A. Tesla Motors.

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