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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

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states and Canada. A Cars and Coffee event will be held in Clay, New York, while Avalon, an all-electric golf cart community on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, will display three electric buses. In Canada, the Saskatchewan Electric Vehicle Association is counting on more business sponsors than ever before.

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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

states and Canada. A Cars and Coffee event will be held in Clay, New York, while Avalon, an all-electric golf cart community on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast, will display three electric buses. In Canada, the Saskatchewan Electric Vehicle Association is counting on more business sponsors than ever before.

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InDEED, a success

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Sponsored by the EAA and Plug In America , DEED featured events in 34 states , as well as Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic. “With the pandemic, with climate change issues coming to the forefront, with a change in Administration, there’s just incredible interest in EVs right now.”

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"Spirit" and the First EVer in the World Plug-in Parade in Santa Monica, California - 17 January 2009

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Victoria Canada 250 598 3100 "Internal combustion is so last century". I think Ed Kjaer, head of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, had the best quote at the podium saying that nobody should think EVs are just golf carts or that the technology isn’t ready: “It is so ready. More to come a bit later.

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Nickel expert calls on Musk, Farley, others to demand Nickel sourcing in North America

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According to Statista , Canada is the sixth-biggest producer of nickel globally, with 130,000 metric tons of the element produced in 2021. “We used to refer to LFP cells as ‘golf cart batteries,'” he said. The United States ranked tenth on the list, with 18,000 metric tons.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A very low cost EV is taking a golf cart transaxle or whole GC rear/seat and weld, ect a MC front end, frame, title to it, change the batteries from 6vdc to 12vdc to double the voltage and use larger dia VW Rabbit tires and you can have a nice 1- 3 person MC trike that goes 45-55mph and 50+ mile range.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

You guys go ahead and buy your 40 mile per charge GM golf cart. The mines in Canada where the nickel & cadmium are mined is one of the most polluted places on Earth. Oh, and it looks wayyyyy cooler than the Volt. link] This is not a sales pitch, Im just a huge fan of the car and an innovative American car start-up.

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