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Category Archives: Opinion
An Electric Car is like an iPad
An EV is to a car as an iPad is to a computer. You can’t do everything with an iPad that you can with a conventional computer, but once someone has used an iPad they tend to use it in … Continue reading
Green Hills 0, East Nashville 10
Yep. That’s the count of Electric Vehicle charging stations in Green Hills and East Nashville. How come a chic area of town has zero charging stations while East Nashville sports 10? Interestingly Belle Meade only has one at the Belle … Continue reading
Posted in Blink, Electric Car, Level 2 EV Charger, Opinion
Tagged Belle Meade, cars, East Nashville, Green Hills, Publix
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Gallatin Civic Center adds EV Charging
Gallatin Civic Center have added two Electric Vehicle charging stations. This makes four locations in Gallatin TN that have electric vehicle charging stations. This puts Gallatin at parity with Hendersonville TN. Retail and Restaurant locations are popular locations to install … Continue reading
Posted in Blink, Electric Car, Level 2 EV Charger, Nissan LEAF, Opinion
Tagged Civic center, electric vehicle, Gallatin TN, Hendersonville TN, transportation
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Joe the coal miner gets $150 more, Ahmed the terrorist gets $140 less.
A common criticism of Electric Vehicles is that most of the electric is generated by coal. Some see this as a big negative, however I welcome this statistic and here’s why. I’ve driven 10,713 miles since getting my LEAF. I … Continue reading
Posted in Electric Car, Nissan LEAF, Opinion
Tagged cars, chevy malibu, coal, coal producers, dirty coal, drill baby drill, Electric, gasoline purchase, mine baby mine, Terrorist, transportation
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EV Charger Grant Funds bypass workplace?
An Achilles heel of many electric vehicles is the limited range they provide making them inappropriate for 75% of the driving population. Ironically the drivers who stand to benefit the most from the electric vehicle’s low running cost (the high … Continue reading
Posted in Blink, Cost Benefit, Electric Car, Level 2 EV Charger, Level 3 EV Charger, Nissan LEAF, Opinion
Tagged nashville area, transportation
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Are EV’s Green? Media sends Mixed Messages
A recent study by a non-profit group called the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge Mass, looked at the pollution footprint and cost savings of EV’s compared to conventional vehicles. What their study actually shows is a mystery to me, … Continue reading
Posted in Cost Benefit, Electric Car, Nissan LEAF, Opinion
Tagged cars, environment, green, smokestack, tailpipe emissions, transportation, union of concerned scientists
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The EV Taxman Cometh
Several states have proposed taxes for Electric Vehicles like the Nissan LEAF. The motivation to introduce these new taxes is based upon the fact that 100% electric vehicles use no gasoline so pay no tax per gallon of gas. The … Continue reading
Posted in Electric Car, Nissan LEAF, Opinion
Tagged Arizona, EV Tax, Gas Tax, Kansas, nissan versa, steve farley, Tax, tax proposals, Tennessee, tom sloan, Washington state
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Gas Prices “Managed” by big oil since August 2011?
A common complaint from any driver is that when Oil prices go up, gas prices do so overnight, but when oil prices drop gas prices are slow to follow. A quick bit of research always showed this not to be … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged congress, Congressional hearings, gas price, gas prices, manipulation, oil, oil companies, price gouging, Stategic oil reserve
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