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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

As a battery electric vehicle (EV) owner for almost four years now (a Tesla Model 3 Long Range) and founder in 2017 of a group of some 500+ EV enthusiasts in the Miami Valley, I am in full support of SB 307: Accelerating Ohio's Auto Industry (AOAI). My EV battery is warrantied for a minimum of 100K miles and eight years.

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Coca-Cola adding 6 eStar electric trucks to North American delivery fleet

Green Car Congress

Atlanta and Miami. A quick-change cassette-type battery can be swapped out in 20 minutes, enabling around-the-clock operations and aligning the vehicles as an absolute alternative to fossil-fuel urban delivery trucks. The new eStar trucks will be deployed in San Francisco, New York City, Washington, D.C. and Hartford, Conn.,

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How Federal and State Government Incentives Make It Easy to Become an EV Owner

Blink Charging

A certain percentage of the value of the battery’s critical minerals must be either extracted or processed in the US or in a country that has a free-trade agreement with the US; or the battery must be recycled within North America. From 2026-2029, the minimum battery component requirement increases 10% each year.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

These include Pacific Gas and Electric, Kansas City Power and Light and Edison Electric Institute , the trade association for IOUs (see quote below). Along with other national leaders in the PHEV movement, including Dr. Andy Frank and Mark Duvall of EPRI , I spoke to the need to fund battery research and demonstration vehicles.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

0:00 / 4:40 Battery power for Chrysler The Circuit will be a purely plug-in car - there will be no gas tank or gasoline engine at all - with an expected range of 150 to 200 miles on a full charge. "This vehicle is so light it doesnt even require power steering," said Chrysler spokesman Nick Cappa.

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

Charged EVs

They simply can’t ramp up production quickly enough, and this is not only because of the time and investment it takes to build new factories and repurpose production lines—the companies are also dealing with frustrating shortages of batteries and other components. Farewell to falling prices.