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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

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. The main theme?

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National Drive Electric Week 2021: Talk about great timing

Electric Auto Association

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. The main theme?

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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

Back to being there In-person events included an EV parade from Little Rock to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a new 6-unit EV charging station in Lonoke, Arkansas, as well as a second ribbon-cutting at a charging station in Walsenburg, Colorado. DEED event on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. DEED event in Waco, TX. “We

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

While people can purchase neighborhood electric vehicles today for about $10K, they only have a top speed of 35 miles an hour or so, essentially glorified golf-carts. All the commercially available freeway-capable (70 mph) EVs are priced way out of reach for the average consumer.

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Electric Car Watch #9: Where is the Strom-R3 electric car?

Plug In India

Remember when the original Tesla Roadster kept getting delayed back in the late 2000s? Elon Musk personally met scores of customers at the time and assured them their concerns were being heard. Every startup that takes money from its customers must communicate every month on every small milestone that is being reached.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. We'll also be taking Burning Man art projects off petroleum generators by switching them to solar electricity.

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Why The Ford F-150 Lightning Is The Most Important EV Ever

EV Adoption

Wait, you might be thinking to yourself, what about the Tesla Model S which single-handedly changed the image of EVs from glorified golf carts into fast as all heck, 300+-mile range, aspirational computers on wheels? But in the south and middle parts of the US, Tesla’s and EVs in general, can be rare sightings.

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