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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

Over three decades later, Martinson reinvented himself, earning an Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) from the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He loaned me an EV1, and after a week, I sold my Porsche and leased one myself,” Martinson said. The first short film in the series is Workforce Rising.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering. Among the contests was “a huge late winter race in Phoenix with a variety of events and classes, including Formula Lightning ,” for which he was an advisor to a team from Ohio State.

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U-M study finds current CAFE standards create profit incentive for larger vehicles

Green Car Congress

The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

This is your Lightning eMotors, Motiv, Phoenix Motors—early days. I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. It’ll charge anything—a bus, a truck, a Porsche, doesn’t matter. At the time, there were eleven OEMs. The pioneer of vehicle­-to-grid is part of my team.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Renault-Nissan Alliance is building fleet charging stations in Portland and Phoenix. As far as quick, Id give my left nut to own a Wrightspeed EV, so I could (quietly) blow the doors off Porsches and Ferraris. The Chevy Volt is going to count on an overnight charge from a standard wall outlet.