Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

The NYPD already uses electric scooters and electric powered golf carts on boardwalks, in parks and some transit hubs. The FDNY and NYPD initially will use the vehicles for non-emergency duties, including use by NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agents. The Chevrolet Volt is the first electric car being used by the NYPD.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Instead, you can get by with a low-speed vehicle like a golf cart or bicycle. While they look like golf carts, GEM’s electric cars stand out among small vehicles. The batteries mean they have zero emissions and are better for the environment than gas-powered cars or golf carts.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2017

We're long past the days when car enthusiast publications sneered at electric cars as underpowered golf carts. Much of the credit for that goes to Tesla, the first all-electric carmaker, whose Model S won the hearts of 'buff-book' writers everywhere for its speed and shape.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Electric vehicle advocacy group Plug-In America is organizing a nation-wide day of awareness, National Plug-In Day, this Sunday, October 16. With events scheduled across America they wish to demonstrate newly built highway-capable electric.

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National Green Transportation

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Electric vehicle advocacy group Plug-In America is organizing a nation-wide day of awareness, National Plug-In Day, this Sunday, October 16. With events scheduled across America they wish to demonstrate newly built highway-capable electric.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 29, 2015

Friday's the day we use for the stranger and more oddball stories in our lineup, and one of the more unusual we've seen in a while comes from Harvard University. It's an article--actually a handful of articles--covering research by a scholar of "disruption" who argues that Silicon Valley startup carmaker Tesla Motors isn't disruptive.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

LMHDV Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Marine applications and locomotives are not eligible under this FOA, nor are prototype or novelty vehicles, golf carts, snowmobiles and other off-road recreational or sport vehicles. LMHDV Fuel cell electric vehicles. LMHDV Electric hybrid vehicles.

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All Cars Electric

AUGUST 4, 2011

Together, we’ve been covering the latest news in plug-in vehicles and other green cars for quite some time. In the past few years we’ve seen electric cars move from vaporware or golf carts into real, working, production cars.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

MAY 5, 2007

It's a pity that we have to remove this, but the size of the golf-cart batteries clearly interfere with the latch. Home Depot sells 2-inch caps that should plug the previous hole nicely. Here's the sawed off hood latch. I saved the latch cable tube and latch mechanism to give to Craig at camp914 as parts for someone else.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

JUNE 30, 2007

The 8-volt golf cart batteries arrived over 24 days ago and have just been sitting on the garage floor, discharging. The lower charge rate can be plugged into a 15-amp outlet that has a few other light loads attached. This is inside the driver-side fuel compartment looking forward.

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Charged EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

At sites with limited or no grid power, plugging EV chargers into the grid may be impossible—but that doesn’t mean you can’t get your EVs charged. They’re using those to charge service vehicles, like golf carts for campus use, rather than cars. Our home city of Campbell has purchased one, and that’ll be installed in a few weeks.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. Their Rechargeit.org campaign really makes the connections between renewable power and plug-in cars.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

Ford is working with more than 200 employee volunteers to capture data produced from their vehicles using the OpenXC plug-in device. The data is gathered by devices plugged into the HP fleet vehicles. Drivers voluntarily use plug-in devices that create live data on traffic and parking. Data Driven Insurance, London.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 8, 2024

Look Ma, no plug! Squad Mobility When I’ve been on vacation in recent years, I’ve noticed more people getting around beach towns in electric golf carts. It also assesses facial skin age—after a couple of days of moisture-sucking Vegas air, late nights, and fluorescent lights I can’t imagine that that assessment will go well.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 10, 2021

It’s a series plug-in hybrid like the Chevrolet Volt. Various other companies are currently designing and developing fleets of fully electric emergency vehicles, including golf carts for police and ATVs for search-and-rescue operations. However, the vehicle isn’t fully electric. A Slow but Sure Transition.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 19, 2021

Sponsored by the EAA and Plug In America , DEED featured events in 34 states , as well as Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic. The road rally worked well because everyone could just be in their cars,“ said organizer Karl Bloss of the West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. “We

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Disappointed but undeterred, we went to work and launched National Drive Elect ric Week (originally called National Plug In Day), thinking we would have had a better chance of coverage h ad our parade been part of a nationwide observance. Not to toot our own horn, but that’s what Plug In America has been saying from the start.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

A demonstration of plug-in hybrids and full battery electrics at an HEAA meeting. Unfortunately, when the assigned HEAA member arrived at the auto show with his Model S, security guards in golf carts quickly converged, blocking the entrance. They also like them because they’re fast and powerful.”. No Teslas allowed.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 19, 2024

It will also have a lasting impact on the college as the energy is used elsewhere on campus when a vehicle is not plugged in. When a vehicle is not plugged in, the system will funnel energy into the grid to use elsewhere. An engineering class project at Hope College resulted in fully functional solar-powered EV chargers for students.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JANUARY 18, 2009

Cheers PHEV3A'rs, EVADC'rs, and EVnthusiasts, One & All - The "Spirit" did it, showing off signage and PHEV stuff with some 74 EVs and PHEVs at the first EVer in the world Plug-in Parade, called "Inaugural Parade West: Plug In, America! Electric Vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) were included.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 24, 2009

Capitol Hill made for a strange sight earlier this week as it was surrounded by everything from two-seat sports cars to vehicles that resembled golf carts and bucket trucks. The bizarre collection of vehicles had one thing in common, however - namely alternative energy.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

In addition to the Roadster, a whole host of little electric cars will be exhibited at the fair alongside an array of electric scooter and quadricycles: Mega eCity, Mega Multitruck, E-Z-GO RXV (golf cart), Sanifer L7e, Sanifer L6e, Toyota Prius (Plug-in and Flexible-fuel technology models) and ZEV Seven.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The building coincides with the announcement in September that General Motors will team up with the company to develop a plug-in version of the best-selling GM Spark mini-car as the US giant looks to embrace electric powered driving.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Drive Electric Week is an annual event organized by Plug In America , the Electric Auto Association , EVHybridNoire , Drive Electric USA , and the Sierra Club. You’ll see solar cars, golf carts, wind energy providers, local dealerships and Harley’s Livewire electric motorcycle, among others. This is the event’s 14th year.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Drive Electric Week is an annual event organized by Plug In America , the Electric Vehicle Association , EVHybridNoire , Drive Electric USA , and the Sierra Club. You’ll see solar cars, golf carts, wind energy providers, local dealerships and Harley’s Livewire electric motorcycle, among others. This is the event’s 14th year.

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We spoke to EV community member and friend of the channel Mr Zarryl Lobo, who has 30+ years of experience building custom electric golf carts and refurbishing old EVs. Even 1000 per annum is too low according to experienced people in the automotive space.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) Shameless self plugs here. So why has Oregon become a hotbed of activity for electric vehicles all of a sudden? See the below link for a more in depth discussion of this topic.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Now the company is demonstrating off a new platform called Revii for larger micromobility vehicles (sometimes referred to as “minimobility”) including golf carts, Low-Speed Vehicles (LSVs) and other Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs). You can even take it up into a tall apartment building as long as you’ve got an elevator!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, which is expected to sell for $40,000 when it goes on sales in the U.S. In early testing, reviewers said a plug-in electric hybrid sedan from Chinas BYD Co. and Korean golf cart maker CT&T Co. "A plug-in hybrid selling for 150,000 yuan is a pipe dream for farmers.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 25, 2024

At sites with limited or no grid power, plugging EV chargers into the grid may be impossible—but that doesn’t mean you can’t get your EVs charged. They’re using those to charge service vehicles, like golf carts for campus use, rather than cars. Our home city of Campbell has purchased one, and that’ll be installed in a few weeks.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

It is aggressively in talks with Portland General Electric Plug-In Charging Stations , ( POR ) and other states including Michigan, and California that are scrambling to offer incentives. They are either glorified golf cart city cars like this one or they are only for the very wealthy like the Tesla.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. " The feds arent convinced. check your facts.

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