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Electric Car Charging Stations: 6 Easy Steps To Test Your Range Anxiety (Before Buying An EV)

EV Life

While driving an electric car may be the ultimate cure for range anxiety, it may be even less stressful to assess your access to electric car charging stations before you buy an electric car. Here’s one way to plan charging for bigger trips before buying an electric car: Go to Plugshare.com. Trip Test 1: San Francisco to Lake Tahoe.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Every time my wife and I drove up to our Lake Tahoe ski cabin on Friday nights after work, we’d have to keep our snow jackets on until the next day. A year later we decided to build a new, superefficient house in Tahoe.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. Tahoe Transportation District. FY2017 Low-No projects. City of Las Cruces.

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A Mexican Drug Cartel’s New Target? Seniors and Their Timeshares

Baua Electric

Cartel employees posing as sales representatives call up timeshare owners, offering to buy their investments back for generous sums. The building was in an upscale neighborhood, across the street from a park. Now, a Mexican criminal group known for its brutality is moving in on seniors and their timeshares.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

You can buy it now. How many millions have they spent to develop a vehicle that you cant buy, that no one is prepared to service and that most Americans wouldnt want if you gave it to them? Give me a vanilla version without the revenue generating doodads and Ill buy one or two. Id hate to see a tahoe vs one of these downtown.

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