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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. Electric-only range of the Volt has not only not diminished , but I’m regularly see 60-mile estimated ranges after a charge. The car has been nearly flawless.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. The standard version with only 220 miles of range was a long way off for someone who wanted his own electric car to start 2017.

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On National Golf Cart Day (seriously), here’s 10 ways they beat cars

Baua Electric

In fact, these days, they’re more commonly found zipping through neighborhood streets or joy-riding around beach communities. Buying used can help lower costs, but there are also interesting new additions to the market such as the Kandi Mini golf cart, priced at just US $3,999. Lower speed, higher safety (seriously) I know, I know.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

The far higher volumes of carbon dioxide per mile from heavy trucks make them an obvious target for zero-emission powertrains. It had a 264 kWh battery pack powering the tractor’s twin motors with more than 4,000 lb-ft of torque and a range estimated at up to 150 miles. Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Five possible areas of improvements include: reducing miles driven; increasing the number of people per trip; reducing the number of trips; improving the vehicle efficiency; and improving the efficiency of the fuel supply. He believes “ monolithic vehicle design ”—where people buy one car to fit all of their needs—is outdated.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Where Can I Buy One? 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? Real Life EV Stories A Case for Electricity Plug In America Positions Energy Policy Frequently Asked Questions About Plug-in Buses Who Killed the Electric Car? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? Newsletter Vol. htm Advocates of the Th!

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