Originally posted on EVANNEX. This article comes to us from Stuart Gardner, Electrify Your Ride Program Director at Generation180, a national nonprofit working to inspire and equip people to take action on clean energy. Their Electrify Your Ride (EYR) campaign accelerates the transition to electric vehicles by building awareness about EVs, transforming EV … [continued]
Tis the season for National Drive Electric Week! Bridgeport, Connecticut’s event had a special guest. Proterra brought its electric bus and The EV Club of Connecticut’s Paul Braren was there to cover it all. Paul said that this was his first time seeing an electric bus at a National Drive … [continued]
What a fantastic day of inquisitive participants! The hard work of Jon Day and the Australian Electric Vehicles Association certainly paid off with the largest gathering of electric vehicles and allied industries in Australia to date. I must point out that this was privately organized by and for community groups. … [continued]
National Drive Electric Week runs from September 25th—October 3rd this year and serves as a nationwide celebration to heighten awareness around electric cars. There are hundreds of events scheduled all across the US and Canada. If you own an electric car, go! It’s a great way to meet other EV … [continued]
Norway just hit 82% plugin vehicle new car sales in September 2020. This raises the question: “Why are 18% of the purchases non-plugin vehicles?” Let’s investigate this question
Dominion Energy Virginia this week announced another step to drive electric vehicle adoption, save customers money and reduce emissions in Virginia. Rebates for charging stations for multi-family communities, workplaces, transit bus depots and fast-charging locations are now available. A rebate program for the company’s residential customers will launch in Virginia in early 2021.
More than 100 virtual events will highlight the many benefits of electric vehicles.
Mark your calendars for World EV Day. It will be on Wednesday, September 9, 2020. This collaborative initiative has been launched by ABB, Green.TV, Mahindra Electric Mobility, Volta Trucks, and Pivot Power.
We hosted a National Drive Electric Week event last Saturday in Sarasota, Florida. It was arranged very much at the last minute, but we were lucky to get dozens of electric vehicle drivers signed up nonetheless. The bulk of the attendees were Tesla owners, as you may have noticed from photos like the one above that I’ve been using here on CleanTechnica in the past several days. Exactly half of all the vehicles, 20 of them, were Tesla Model 3s.
Louisiana hosted several National Drive Electric Week events, and I got to go to two of them, the Abita Springs one last week and the Gonzales one today. In Gonzales, Plugin Louisiana and Louisiana Clean Fuels teamed up with Tanger Outlet Mall to help bring awareness about electric vehicles and clean energy. I got to tag along with Karen Rudisil, owner of a Tesla Model X.
