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Reducing Carbon Emissions Quickly Is the Goal – Not Quarter-Mile Times (Commentary)

EV Adoption

To be clear, I have nothing against automakers producing fast cars. At the Plaid launch event Elon Musk said that the Plaid was “faster than any Porsche, safer than any Volvo.”. If you want to take your car – whatever type (I’m not limiting my comments to the Tesla Model S Plaid) – to a race track and have fun, be my guest.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

The news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. The electric Hummer has an important purpose: to reset the image of electric vehicles in US buyers’ minds once and for all.

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National Drive Electric Week 2023 Recap: Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About

Plug in America

By Zan Dubin-Scott I’m standing on the sidewalk in the sun, proudly gazing at 70-plus vehicles lined up and ready to go for a history-making event–the world’s first electric vehicle parade–when my phone rings. Turns out we were right. Of course, we have a ways to go with awareness.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

Either that, or we’d buy one from someone else who did,” he said. They want to know what their car will do. I cut the frame and extended it, and then a guy from the DEVC donated a golf cart motor,” he explained. “I I felt like a real pioneer because I was the only one in town who had an electric car,” he said.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ted Kulongoski behind the wheel of Nissan’s prototype electric vehicle. Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. At a press event on Monday, Oregon’s governor, Ted Kulongoski, was talking up Nissan’s previously announced partnership with the state.

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