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Better deals boost LEAF, Volt sales in U.S.
The Chevy Volt. Nissan LEAF and Chevy Volt sales – which the mainstream and EV press tend to use as the barometers of EV demand in the U.S. – rose in October with the monthly sales volume for the Volt...
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Anti-EV friend refuses to be persuaded
The Tesla Model S has won Motor Trend Car of the Year Awards, has won accolades from the mainstream press, has recently been driven more than 400 miles on a single charge, and single-handedly disproves...
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Analyst: EV and PV producers should team up
Rudy Summers poses in front of the family’s three solar-charged EVs, a Chevy Volt, a BMW ActiveE, and a Toyota RAV4 EV. You can see the solar system that powers the EVs on the garage roof. [Photo...
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Mr. President: We can drive our cars on sunshine
Long-time electric vehicle and solar supporter Paul Scott is spending more than $30,000 of his own money so that he can bring the renewable energy + EV message directly to President Obama. If you had...
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Split EV/gas car homes hurt charger growth
It’s great to have EV chargers in the city — but that’s far from the only place they are needed. [Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Michael Hicks]The one (pure) electric car + one ICE crutch household...
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Car sharing goes all electric in Colorado
Want to drive a cleaner, more environmentally friendly vehicle and want to go one “greenie” step further than your electric car owning/leasing buddies? Why not give electric car sharing a try? It’s...
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Germans love renewables, not electric cars
Sights like this one, near Sondershausen, Germany, where wind turbines and solar farms are located together, are common in Germany. But, sadly, electric cars, which could be plugged into a renewable...
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Thousands to celebrate electric driving in USA
A sign at National Drive Electric Day in Littleton, Colo. in Sept. 2014. The Fifth Annual National Drive Electric Day will be held on Sat., Sept. 19 this year (2015). [Photo by Christof...
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Thrill of solar-charged driving has faded
Life circumstances are forcing me to sell our home, give up solar-charged driving, and, potentially, unplug from electric driving altogether. When I launched SolarChargedDriving.Com in September of...
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An electric car doesn’t make economic sense anymore
Thanks to absurdly low oil prices ($30 per barrel or less), one of the primary arguments in favor of electric cars — that they are cheaper to fuel — is losing its luster. As a long-time electric car...
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Electric cars part of smarter and more energy efficient living
Electric cars are part of a more energy efficient future. For centuries, urban planners have sought various methods for making cities more efficient, from managing resources to tackling logistical...
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Quebec gets new solar EV charging station
Two Quebec companies, renewz inc. and Roulez Électrique have signed an agreement to install an iSun solar carport at the “Station Roulez Électrique” of Trois-Rivières in Quebec. The companies say this...
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Half of electric car owners have home solar
This is something I saw coming way back in the summer of 2009: Electric cars and solar would create a powerful and attractive synergy with one another. That is, those with solar would be more likely...
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You read it first here at SolarChargedDriving: Big Oil, and the internal...
Meanwhile, while most people slept through it, and don’t even know much, if anything, about electric vehicles, EVs are on the verge of killing the internal combustion engine — and sinking Big Oil as...
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Goodbye Nissan: New LEAF doesn’t have enough range for this one-car household
The 2018 Nissan LEAF is a nice looking car and priced to sell — but 150 miles of range is not going to be enough for my one-car household, and not enough for most one-car households in the United...
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Why I liked the Nissan LEAF, but LOVE the Chevy Bolt
The Nissan LEAF was fun to drive — but the Chevy Bolt (right) is a complete joy to drive. [Photo by Christof Demont-Heinrich]I leased a 2014 Nissan LEAF for three and a half years, and I liked the...
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Is it ‘false’ to say that short-range electric cars have severe limitations?
So, I got into it with another electric car advocate on Facebook recently. A woman had posted a question in a Nissan LEAF owner’s group about whether she should buy a used 2014 Nissan LEAF or not. She...
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Electric car takeover: The biggest ‘stealth’ revolution you’ve never heard of
This BMW i3, plugged into a charging station in Nordhausen, Germany, is the only one of its kind in that city of 50,000 says my cousin, who owns this i3. [Photo by Christof Demont-Heinrich]It’s truly...
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Spreading the Chevy Bolt and the electric car ‘gospel’
My red Chevy Bolt parked next to Deena R.’s brand new blue Chevy Bolt. We go to church together and Deena said I had a big influence in persuading her to go all electric. She’s also got a solar system...
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Same old tired, and false, anti-electric car points recycled again and again
So, it’s 2018, and Wired, a supposedly “progressive” media outlet with supposed expertise in new technologies just published an anti-electric car article with a telling headline, ‘The potential...
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