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Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice

Clean Fleet Report

If you’re trying to reckon whether an electric car is for you, here are top reasons why you should get aboard the electric vehicle voyage: 1. The vehicles use electricity produced from nuclear power, coal, natural gas or solar energy. Check your local situation before you buy. Europe and China. Say Goodbye to Fuel Costs.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Many things in your life haven’t changed since 2010 but one thing certainly has: You won’t need to buy gas in order to drive. Plug-in hybrids run on an electrical charge for about 40 miles before switching to gas power.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

No one needs to buy another new gas powered car. Keep your old car, or buy an inexpensive used car. The Plug-Ins are coming and you should wait till they get here before buying your next new car. Otherwise you’ll just be buying a dinosaur that you’ll have to pay to convert or dispose of. Save your money.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

Appendix E: PHEV and the Electrical Grid—fast charge v. slow charge. The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. References.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. People wont buy a full car.

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Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals – ET Auto

Baua Electric

“Investors should wait to see evidence of this type of re-balancing among the world’s lithium and cobalt miners, before they think about buying exposure.” Yet supply charged ahead as demand growth underwhelmed, and the result has been a price freefall. swooped to buy stakes in mines or sign deals to lock up future supply.

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