Beyond Going Green, Here’s Why You Should Buy An EV

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 01:18:13 +0000

Many consumers are considering buying electric vehicles, whether to generate zero tailpipe emissions or to save money on maintenance and fuel. But beyond these reasons, one publication recently pointed out four other reasons for buying an EV, after the writer got hands-on experience with dozens of them. In a recent feature, Business Insider’s Tim Levin […]

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Survey Shows Pathway To Speeding Up EV Adoption In Rural Areas

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 06:53:19 +0000

Regardless of where we live, we should all have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits provided by electric vehicles. These benefits range from the reduced cost of operation, the reduced need for maintenance and the improved performance, to the fact that electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions. Everybody’s health stands to gain from reducing local […]

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You Are Thinking That Your Next Car Might Be An EV, But … ?

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:40:31 +0000

A big portion of new car buyers are now buying fully electric cars. But more are buying non-electric cars. If you’ve been in the bigger, latter group, what’s keeping you from an EV as your next car? Here are some common responses: I would expect to have range anxiety. (Where will I refuel? How long […]

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Are Electric Cars Lowering Energy Bills In California?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 04:59:53 +0000

People are often scared of change, and look for reasons to justify not wanting to change. This has certainly been the case with electric vehicles for the past decade. There are so many misperceptions and there are so many misleading attacks on electric vehicles. At the same time, across the public at large, there’s not […]

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What’s Better to Drive in a Hurricane — Gas or Electric?

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 03:59:09 +0000

We’re not so sure about that. I just went through the process of evacuating, returning home, and helping friends with hurricane cleanup, and had a good opportunity to contemplate the pros and cons of driving electric in a disaster. It’s true that power tends to go out in a hurricane, which on the face of […]

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Electric Vehicles Have Lowest Annual Fuel Cost of All Light-Duty Vehicles

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:50:10 +0000

Estimates of annual fuel costs for model year (MY) 2022 light-duty vehicles show that electric vehicles (EVs) can save consumers thousands of dollars over gasoline or diesel vehicles. All EV models had annual fuel costs less than $1,000. The only vehicle types with cost estimates between $1,000 and $2,000 were plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) and […]

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Cleaning Up The Oil In Parking Spots — Forever

Credit to Author: Stuart Ungar| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:50:24 +0000

Through Evolve KY, Kentucky’s nonprofit electric vehicle group, one of the things I do is install Level 2 community EV chargers. In the approximately 7 years we’ve been around, we’ve installed about 125 chargers at 60 locations throughout Kentucky and neighboring states. They’re in places like parks, farmers’ markets, coffee shops, centers of town — […]

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How 3 Years With A Tesla Model 3 Almost Made Me Forget About The Mobility Revolution

Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:00:22 +0000

The amount of writing about electric vehicles in mainstream media these days is staggering compared to when I decided to make the shift from fossil-fueled vehicles to electric vehicles in 2016. From a deep dive technical perspective, there are always new and interesting innovations, but in everyday life? Well, more and more people are making […]

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