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Event: “Building an Electric Future” at the Petersen

Clean Fleet Report

Museum Exhibit Review: 107 Years of Electric Cars. With the recent technological advancements and increased adoption of electric cars, SUVs and trucks, it is lost on most people that electricity was an early popular propulsion system for cars. 1996 General Motors EV1. 2018 Fisker Emotion Concept.

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The influencer

Electric Auto Association

2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I

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What the Nissan Leaf Has Taught Us About Natural Disaster Recovery

Blink Charging

Portable Electricity To Help Any Area . In 2018, the Blue Switch project was created by Nissan as an initiative to promote the use of electric car batteries as viable resources for issues related to disaster prevention, energy management, climate change, and more.

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