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Personal: Chevy Volt—Still Electric After All These Years

Clean Fleet Report

I love several things about the Volt that tipped my decision to buy out the lease and keep on driving—mostly on electricity: The Lectron charger has style and speed. Its second oil change was forced as part of the hand-over from the dealer. More Volt Stories from the Archives: Personal: Chevrolet Volt & Accell Charger.

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

Cars That Think

Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. Today she works as a hardware engineer at Zaptec , which makes electric-vehicle charging stations and is also based in Stavanger. She was hired to clean offices, and her boyfriend found a job washing the inside of oil tankers.

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5 Ways Owning an EV Can Save You Money

Blink Charging

For the time being, some electric vehicles (EVs) are more expensive to buy than their internal combustion engine (ICE) counterparts. Purchase incentives Not every vehicle is one that the government will “pay” you to buy, but many EVs fall into this category. With an EV, you are also able to control when you charge your vehicle.

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Hyundai Offering Free Chargers to EV Buyers, Swelling Industry Incentives

The Truth About Cars

Hyundai is offering customers willing to buy an all-electric vehicle a Level 2 home charger for no extra cost. Additionally, the fear of running out of battery energy without access to a charger is perpetuated by the lack of a universal charging infrastructure. or from a free-trade agreement partner.

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Four Steps to Preparing Your Auto Dealership for Electric Vehicles

Blink Charging

The easiest way to present a strong EV presence is, firstly, to make sure all employees are knowledgeable about EVs and secondly, to install EV charging infrastructure at the dealership. They can also become an extra revenue source for the dealership if you decide to charge for their use.

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Global EV sales are ‘robust’ – more than 1 in 5 cars sold in 2024 will be electric

Baua Electric

Rising EV sales are set to remake the global auto industry and significantly reduce oil consumption for road transport, according to the new edition of the IEA’s annual Global EV Outlook , released today. In China, more than 60% of electric cars sold in 2023 were already less expensive to buy than gas cars. Get started here. –ad*

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2035 Canberra ICE ban an important step, but a drop in the EV ocean

EV Central

It did also occur to me that this is a bit like me personally pledging to buy only electric vehicles from this day forth. Charging infrastructure is critical to the ACT’s plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.