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Plug-in Hybrids and HOV Lanes: Déjà Don’t. | evchels
Ahh, one of my favorite California bills is back. No, not that one. The one that allows plug-in hybrids into CA HOV lanes with just one occupant. The original allocation of 40,000 green stickers that indicate HOV eligibility for PHEVs has been exhausted. AB 2013 proposes to make 45,000 more stickers available immediately, and…
For EVs: Work Trumps Hope | evchels
I have long been prodding folks not to be too complacent about assuming an EV future is guaranteed. Good things are happening for sure, but I know too well that this rolling snowball can indeed be stopped. My admonishments are typically greeted either with criticism for any shred of skepticism, or with a verbal pat…
Captain Awesome drives electric, of course! | evchels
Before Who Killed the Electric Car? officially hit theaters in 2006, Chris Paine and I hopscotched the country with it on a Sony press tour. Over the course of a few weeks, we hit a different city every day: local screening in the evening, press the next morning, and off to the airport to repeat…
Faces of a Generation… | evchels
In my last post, I mentioned that we're heading into the fun part of creating EEI's awareness campaign about electricity as a vehicle fuel and asked for help selecting a name. Thanks to you, we now have one! As a community, you have dubbed yourselves "The Electric Generation". One not defined by age, but the common…
The Electric Generation | evchels
I’ve previously posted about how I've been helping the Edison Electric Institute (EEI -an association representing the shareholder-owned electric utilities in the US), plan and launch a community-oriented campaign to generate consumer interest about the benefits of plug-in vehicles and using electricity as a transportation fuel. Over the last several months, I’ve asked for input…
Great news from Tesla Motors…and a grain of salt. | evchels
It’s looking to be a great week for Tesla Motors, who previewed its Q1 results yesterday and promises more good news today. In a nutshell, the company sold more cars than expected and is now even more confident about its profitability this term. All good stuff, and Tesla deserves kudos for the achievement. A much smaller…
Catching flies.. | evchels
The growth of the EV community has always come with both pleasure and pain for some of the early passionate voices within it. More people into the tent is exciting and fun; the interpersonal dynamics sometimes not so much. But while an overall decline in societal civility is hardly unique to our ranks, it…
GM’s Dan Ammann Gets Itchy Twitter Fingers Over EVs | evchels
General Motors President Dan Ammann commandeered the company’s Twitter account today as he toured the IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt. Among a handful of benign comments, he dropped this little gem: “On a tour of #IAA2015. More automakers unveiling EVs for the elite. We're focused on EVs for everyone, like the upcoming @Chevrolet Bolt.” The remark…
Don’t Just Save EV Tax Credits, Fix Them | evchels
The potential ending of the federal electric vehicle tax credit may become the first instance of falling footwear that EV fans have been cautiously awaiting for a while. Understandably, even the EV advocates have split between the “keep it at all costs” and “meh, doesn’t matter much” camps. In reality, we shouldn’t just save the…
Cars and Cow Pies in the Garden State… | evchels
New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission just became the latest to ban direct auto sales (read: Tesla Motors). In what is, at a minimum, poor timing, the state's Coalition of Auto Retailers justified its position by alleging that, "an auto manufacturer is congenitally incapable of fully and faithfully honoring warranty and safety recall obligations." Congenitally…