EV Adoption

JUNE 14, 2021

The fast acceleration capability of electric vehicles was a key component to reducing the “golf cart” image of EVs that existed before the Tesla Model S emerged in 2012. They aren’t aware that while they want 300-400 miles of range, that for most people that is overkill and a waste for 95%-98% of their driving trips.

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Carbon Emissions Miles F-150 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ford opened its first Silicon Valley office in 2012. A person sitting in the Palo Alto laboratory can access real-time video streamed over existing 4G/LTE technology to drive golf carts thousands of miles away.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JANUARY 18, 2009

I think Ed Kjaer, head of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, had the best quote at the podium saying that nobody should think EVs are just golf carts or that the technology isn’t ready: “It is so ready. All 74 vehicles that had signed up for the 2-mile parade through downtown Santa Monica showed up.

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EV Adoption

JUNE 29, 2021

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? Tesla coined both the concept and the term frunk with the launch of the Model S back in 2012.

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F-150 Ford Golf Cart Maintenance 145

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

I cut the frame and extended it, and then a guy from the DEVC donated a golf cart motor,” he explained. “I When folks would find out the car had a 40-mile range, that was the end of discussion. McNeil continued his outreach with other members of the DEVC, a chapter committed to education as a primary goal. “We

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Colorado Denver Golf Cart Convert 57

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012. Now all you hear is highway miles.

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