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Ex-Tesla policy head becomes executive of Zero Emission federal coalition 

Teslarati

The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) appointed ex-Tesla policy head Albert Gore as its new Executive Director. Gore will be taking over ZETA’s Executive Director position from Joe Britton. Gore worked at Tesla for approximately 6 years and 11 months, from September 2015 to July 2022.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

roads by 2015? The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. How many plug-in electric vehicles does President Barack Obama wish to see on U.S. Five million.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

Some pundits have said that the landmark 2015 Paris Accord international treaty on climate change, which the U.S. half a world away, the Chinese island of Hainan announced it would ban sales of fossil fuel-powered vehicles a full five years earlier, by 2030. rejoined on President Joe Biden’s first day in office, didn’t go far enough.