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Electrifying Transportation Equitably: All-Electric Carshare

CleanTechnica EVs

Minneapolis and St. Paul residents logged 25,000 trips and nearly 250,000 miles on the nation’s first renewably powered all-electric carshare program. To wrap up September, there is positive news coming out of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, where they are reporting the first six months of usage data for Evie Carshare.

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Minneapolis gets EV Ready

Plugs and Cars

Minneapolis will be getting 18 electric cars from Ford, and stimulus funding will be used to install charging points, as reported in the Twin Cities downtownjournal.com. Tags: Ford battery electric car.

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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

Cars That Think

As the world builds more and more electric cars and trucks—and electrifies other modes of transit—a race is underway to build the ideal, mean-and-green motor. The goal is a traction motor that’s at least as powerful, reliable, and lightweight as today’s industry standard rare-earth permanent magnet synchronous motor.

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This weekend's screenings include many special events

Revenge of the Electric Car

Come out this weekend in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, San Diego, Houston and Sacramento! Lagoon Theatre, Minneapolis, MN. Stefano Durdic, Executive Producer, Revenge of the Electric Car. Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI. Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI. Varsity Theatre, Seattle, WA. 8:15 , Tue. (15)

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Chelsea Sexton has a Volt for a foster child

Revenge of the Electric Car

Read about her cautious optimism for GM’s new electric car in her recent blog post: “I first learned of the Chevrolet Volt while standing on a Minneapolis street corner on June 23, 2006.

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Colorado Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Rises to $5,000

EV Life

A premier energy products and services company based in Minneapolis and operating throughout the Midwest, Xcel Energy provides an income-qualified electric vehicle rebate of up to $5,500 for drivers that purchase or lease a new EV from a Colorado-based electric car dealer.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Car sharing and ride sharing are blurring together Car sharing allows households to own only one car, instead of two or three, or for some to forgo car ownership completely, using the variations of car sharing and services to pick a vehicle or ride for a given task and location. In the U.S.

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