Missing EV opportunity: Sell Cool

Huffington Post blogger Carol Pierson Holding just got in her friend's LEAF. It's the coolness that impressed. Read it here .

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Think in trouble as Norwegian EV market booms

Think, maker of the Think City, is in trouble, Norwegian business newspaper E24 reports. It's not paid it's bills since February, ac...

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War is Peace dept.

It seems in Foxland if Obama didn't cause the problem, George Bush found the solution. Check out " George W. Bush -- Father of the...

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Public Transit or Private Cars, It's All About the Fuel

[The following is an article I wrote in Earth Island Journal last year to answer the question "Public Transit or Electric Car?." ]...

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

I wrote back in December about my unhappy experience attempting to charge my loaner LEAF at San Francisco City Hall's electric car charg...

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The electricity in gasoline

I just ran across the latest available data, from 2007, for the electricity consumption by petroleum refineries. The US is, hoorah, #1. Ove...

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Obama rolls out EV strategy

At EnerDel's Indiana battery plant today, VP Biden outlined the administration's EV strategy. The Obama administration is calling f...

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My Trial LEAF & the trials of public charging

I've got a LEAF for a few days. Very exciting. I'll have a full report soon. But I've got to mention one frustration I've en...

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Energy/Climate bill prospects dim, but....

It will be next to impossible to pass comprehensive climate legislation in the next two years, but it appears Reid will focus on a series...

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Honda: The toughest nut cracks

“It’s starting to look like there will be a market for electric vehicles,” said Takanobu Ito, the chief executive of Honda, according to Reu...

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Infiniti Electric in 2013

I'm getting used to hearing electric car announcements. I usually take them with a grain of salt, as in the case of the Saab 9-3 ePower ...

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Coda sets price on new EV

Coda has set the price for its new electric car: $44,900. After the federal tax credit, the cost drops to $37,400. In California, the only ...

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GE WattStation get TV ad

GE has taken to the airwaves with an ad for its electric car charging station.

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UCS proposes plug-in cars roadblock: What's wrong with Big Enviro?

With friends like these..... The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has proposed what could be a huge roadblock to the further implement...

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Big news: LEAF in the mid- 20s

The Nissan LEAF, the first all-electric car to be mass marketed by a major automaker, will come in around $25,000, with help from the feder...

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Gearless in Great Britain: Fast charger in action

Robert Llewellyn is a Brit with a keen interest in electric cars who is one of those leasing a Mitsubishi iMiev this year. He's got a gr...

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Fast charger comes to Voltageville: A Glimpse at the Future

In 2001 I began driving an electric car, obtaining the last of the ZEV mandate-required EVs. As I got turned on to the benefits and techno...

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Guerrilla charging: theft or public service?

So you've finally got your electric car. You're going out of town for a few days and recall a few spots at the airport parking lot t...

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Elkhart IN to welcome Think

The Elkhart IN City Council took the first step tonight toward creating a tax abatement for Th!nk North America to open a plant to assemble ...

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Flawed PHEV report has legs

There has never been a shortage of stories in the press denigrating plug-in electric cars. Why? Because people naturally, logically believe ...

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