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Test drives in Chevy Volts forget the importance of electric vehicles and highlight quiet, smooth, and quick acceleration. Plug In Carolina also needs "two clicks" of your time.
Finally, a pleasant role reversal when speaking with people who drive gasoline cars.
It happened. Last week I purchased a Chevy Volt and I love the car. For the last four years I've been telling everyone why electric vehicles are important. How they can impact our economy, environment, and national security. But in one week, I've learned how to be quiet. When I let people drive my Volt, I sit in silence and let them hear silence. As the car accelerates, I watch smiles appear. I field…
Gary Davis is a wealth manager in Greenville, SC. Over the last few months Gary has driven his Chevy Volt 4,600 miles on 8.4 gallons of gas. Learn how this technology can answer many of our nation's environmental, economic, and national security problems.
Wealth Manager Drives 4,600 Miles On 8.4 Gallons of Gas
Gary Davis is a wealth manager in Greenville, South Carolina and the first to own a Chevy Volt in the state. Chevy Volts are all electric vehicles for the first 40 miles of driving and when the batteries deplete, an onboard gas generator recharges the batteries. This range extender allows the Volt to travel 380 miles before needing to recharge at home or fill up at the gas station. Gary shared his experience of driving the Chevy…
Tax Credits vs. Tomahawk Missiles: Which Are More Effective For Our Economy And National Security?
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We may be experiencing a birth of sorts in the Middle East and the United States may be equally helpless. Experts question whether the protesters will bring positive or negative change. To use the example of our delivery room father, they wonder if the United States will be throwing passes to Timmy Tebow or lay awake at 3am, waiting for little Lindsey Lohan to come home.
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January 17, 2011
Ed Begley Jr. Throws Some Punches For Ford Electric Vehicles
Ed Begley, Jr. explains the Ford electric vehicle strategy. Different cars for different people. He also takes some Poch's (pokes) at Nissan and GM.
| Friends: Ed Begley Jr. is loved by Americans. Long before conservation was cool, Ed advanced the environmental movement. Often persuasive and always agreeable, Ed established himself as an expert in all things green. He is now taken with Ford's electric vehicle strategy. He shares the strategy in this three minute video [click here] and offers some not-so-subtle jabs at Nissan and GM. When he describes the Ford Focus charging up in half the time of competitors, he slyly says… |
Within the last month, George Will mocked the Chevy Volt as the product of a foolhardy, government, program. Jim Poch imagines meeting Mr. Will and a Chevy Volt for a few drinks and questions.
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Earlier this month, George Will mocked the Chevy Volt as merely a foolhardy government program. (See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111204494.html) Though some of his criticism was warranted, his assault on electric vehicle tax breaks was so un-conservative and un-factual, that it left me perplexed, and Chevy Volts, speechless.
I imagine walking into a bar with Mr. Will and a Chevy Volt. George would dress down in his baseball cap while…
Plug In Carolina officially opens its first 40 electric vehicle charging stations on December 8, 2010. 60 more are scheduled to open by the end of 2011 and partners are sought to seek additional grant money to expand the network.
South Carolina Opens Electric Vehicle Charging Network On December 8, 2010
Seeks 2011 Grant Participants
Friends:
In 2010, Plug In Carolina secured $480,000 of funding to deploy
a statewide infrastructure for plugin vehicles in SC. Over 80 charging stations are being deployed in Columbia, Spartanburg, Greenville, Rock Hill, Union, Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Blythewood, and Charleston. On December 8, 2010 at 10:00 am on the SC Statehouse steps, we are officially opening…
270 people were killed by convicted terrorist Al Megrahi. He only served eight years for the crime and returned to a hero's welcome in Libya. This blog points to sources that connect the dots while showing how the purchase of electric vehicles will end the influence of foreign oil into foreign affairs.
Cradled in their mother's arms, the two youngest victims of the Lockerbie bombing were probablysleeping peacefully as the catastrophic break-up of Pan Am Flight 103 began in the skies above Lockerbie. As the excited chatter of passengers traveling home for Christmas died away, tiny Jonathan Thomas and Brittany Williams, both just two months old, would have been unaware of the tragedy befalling them.
The youngsters were among 14 babies and children traveling with their parents on the doomed New…
On the eve of plugin vehicle deployment, several key provisions in the proposed Electric Vehicle Deployment Act, could leave the entire effort with a big, black, eye. What do you think?
The Unforced Error of Plugin Vehicles
Bill Buckner played major league baseball for 21 years. He was successful on many fronts, widely regarded as a workhorse, and set several records. But in Game 6, of the 1986 World Series, one play forever marked his career. Buckner was unable to stop an easy groundball hit by Mookie Wilson and lost the game. In my opinion, the good intentions of the Electric Vehicle Deployment Act (EVDA), threaten an unforced error for all work previously accomplished by…
South Carolina is known as a decidedly automotive state. Does that mean South Carolina will quickly adopt cleaner, domestically-fueled, electric vehicles? Maybe, maybe not. James Poch identifies South Carolina's advantages and disadvantages toward the adoption of electric vehicles.
Though electric cars date before the year 1900, man has either been unable or unwilling to deliver them in any meaningful volume. I am happy to report that before the end of this year, all will change as the race to dominate electric cars has begun.
Nissan, Ford, and General Motors will be the first in the race but will be quickly followed by others. In fact, within the next three years, almost every automaker in the world will offer a model with a plug while new automakers, like Tesla Motors…
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