article thumbnail

Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018.

Volt 100
article thumbnail

Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

I even got him to buy a Tesla,” said Martinson, explaining that Hirt was an advisor and co-producer of the ARP film, Nation in Transition , an examination of the coal-to-renewables transition on the Navajo Nation and across northern Arizona. “We His answer was that no one was going to buy electric vehicles.”. Martinson’s GM EV1.

EV1 99
article thumbnail

Getting the personal story `

Electric Auto Association

For others EV seekers, Cary often finds herself recommending a used Chevrolet Volt, a model she owns herself because “It’s the best $10,000 to $15,000 deal out there,” she said. “We We help folks understand the health of the battery when they’re looking at buying a used car,” Cary continued. West Sonoma County is super progressive.

article thumbnail

GM commits to 100% renewable energy by 2050

Green Car Congress

This new renewable energy goal, along with the pursuit of electrified vehicles and efficient manufacturing, is part of the company’s overall approach to strengthening its business, improving communities and addressing climate change. Energy storage can ultimately address the intermittency or reliability of wind and solar energy.

Renewable 150
article thumbnail

Vacation Rental EV Charging: EVmatch Is Here to Help!

EV Match

We would find ourselves bringing huge extension cords and trickle charging our car from a 110 volt outlet in our cabin, only to gain a handful of miles overnight. Buy a compatible smart charger. Ten years ago, public charging was not so easy to find, especially in more remote areas. Ready to get started? We make it easy: 1.

article thumbnail

A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

Unfortunately, the cost of buying instruments commercially severely limited how many trackers we could deploy. This consumed around 350 milliamperes while running at 5 volts for about 1.7 With no guarantees on how long any given instrument might last, you have to deploy a lot of them to get the data you need. microwatts.

DIY 93
article thumbnail

Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together. But what about plug-in hybrids?