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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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In 2000, “I decided my next car would be an EV when there was really nothing on the market,” White continued. “I There was no NEV legislation on the books that made it legal,” White said. “I I had it shipped to EV West in San Diego and they kept it for a year, converted it, and sent it back to me. It was a great island vehicle.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

Stanley Whittingham [from left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. All three, however, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.