Remove 2007 Remove Gas-Electric Remove Kia Remove Personal
article thumbnail

CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. The 2007 EV Parade in Santa Monica with State Senator Fran Pavley. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Displaying and explaining the car at an earth day event.

article thumbnail

TTAC's Best Cars of 2023

The Truth About Cars

An executive express with hips like Sharika and devastatingly powerful electric motors is the simpleton’s choice for a list like this, especially when one deploys all of its 637 horses for a 3.0 2007 Subaru Impreza: Why is this car on my list? It’s the car I drove this year that I most likely can see myself buying for, uh, myself.

Cars 111
article thumbnail

Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

The research firm Mordor Intelligence recently predicted that, worldwide, LED lighting will be responsible for cutting the electricity used for lighting by 30 to 40 percent over the next seven years. In a common type of motor controller, for example, pulses of direct-current electricity are fed to coils mounted on the motor’s rotor.

Green 106