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Dear Floridians: Golf Carts Are NOT Electric Cars

Green Car Reports

Electric car enthusiasts have struggled for years with "golf cart" jibes and only recently with cars like the 2011 Tesla Roadster and 2012 Nissan Leaf has the "ugly and slow" image started to disappear. In Florida, there's a different problem - people who believe their golf carts are actual cars.

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Tesla Model S at 36,000 miles: Car and Driver's long-term Midwest test

Green Car Reports

We're long past the days when car enthusiast publications sneered at electric cars as underpowered golf carts. Much of the credit for that goes to Tesla, the first all-electric carmaker, whose Model S won the hearts of 'buff-book' writers everywhere for its speed and shape.

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Tesla Not Disruptive, Future Is Tiny Electric 'Golf Carts': Harvard Scholar

Green Car Reports

It's an article--actually a handful of articles--covering research by a scholar of "disruption" who argues that Silicon Valley startup carmaker Tesla Motors isn't disruptive. Friday's the day we use for the stranger and more oddball stories in our lineup, and one of the more unusual we've seen in a while comes from Harvard University.

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Jay Leno will hold a live Q&A, talk about his latest video with Elon Musk

Teslarati

The Biden administration isn’t so fond of Tesla or Elon Musk, especially since the president falsely claimed that General Motors’ Mary Barra was leading the EV revolution last year. while overlooking Tesla’s 87% rise from 499,535 vehicles sold in 2020 to 936,172 last year. In a recent interview with Yahoo!

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Jay Leno on Elon Musk & EVs: “I think he should get a certain amount of credit for leading the charge”

Teslarati

To be quite honest, I feel that it’s obvious that Elon Musk and Tesla are the reasons why EVs are so popular today. Tesla is the leader of the EV market and is the best-selling type of battery-electric vehicle. Hybrids are not fully electric but rely on both batteries and fossil fuels yet oddly, count as clean vehicles.

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Driving electric in an oil capital

Electric Auto Association

The outreach efforts of the Houston Electric Auto Association (HEAA), founded 34 years ago in the heart of American oil country, have not always been met with a positive response. “We For the past two years, there’s been a whole lot more awareness and interest in electric vehicles (EVs),” Douglass continued. Showing a home-brew EV.

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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

National Drive Electric Week 2021 comes as the country turns toward EVs. This year’s National Drive Electric Week , presented by the Electric Auto Association along with the Sierra Club , Plugin America , and EV HybridNoir , will no doubt reflect the skyrocketing interest in electric vehicles. states and Canada.