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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

Submitted to the Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee in support of Senate Bill 307: Accelerating Ohio's Auto Industry By Tim Benford, president of Drive Electric Dayton. My EV’s electric drive unit (motor) that provides the acceleration also reduces the need for using the brakes and brake repair.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

Clean Fleet Report

Instead, I drove to Cleveland and then back westward to the center of Iowa, where I visited a relative. In 1955, the local dairy switched from horses to electric milk floats. The next EV he recalls driving was an electric car built in the early 1900s before gasoline cars took over the market.

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