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Electric Vehicle Association Event May the 4th 10 AM to 12 PM Join the Electric Vehicle Association for Breakfast and Public EV Ride & Drive

Lynkwell Parking Lot, 2345 Maxon Rd. Ext. Schenectady, New York

Join us on Sunday, May the 4th for a Ride & Drive! 10 am – noon

Electric Vehicle Association Announces 2024 EV Champion of the Year: Steven St Peter Jr.

Steven St Peter Jr. (Courtesy image)

The Electric Vehicle Association is proud to announce that the 2024 EV Champion of the Year award will be presented to Steven St Peter Jr. of the Electrify Bucksport, Maine organization at our annual meeting in Schenectady, New York on Saturday May 3rd, 2025. This award recognizes […]

Moment Energy: World’s First Second-Life Gigafactory in the U.S. for Repurposing EV Batteries!

Researchers in Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering are working to understand how the growing popularity of electric vehicles couldaffect the power grid. (Kaitlyn Johnson/Texas A&M Engineering/ai)

George Harvey

When Tesla Roadsters were introduced in February of 2008, they were the first electric vehicles (EVs) ever equipped with batteries based on […]

What Can Electrifying Your Ride Do to the Grid?

Dr. Jonathan Snodgrass and a team of researchers are looking into how the power grid can be affected by electrifying passenger cars.

Researchers in Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering are working to understand how the growing popularity of electric vehicles could affect the power grid. (Kaitlyn Johnson/Texas A&M Engineering)

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EV Tax Credits Have Huge Impact – Likely to Go Away Under New Administration.

$7500 is a lot of money to take advantage of now, while it remains available. (carscoops.com)

Jesse Lorre

June of this year, the Treasury Department announced that the IRS had issued over $1 billion in advance-payment electric vehicle tax credits, subsidizing the cost of purchase for over 150,000 fossil-fuel-free cars across […]

Ode to a $20,500 Chevy Bolt, Incentivized to $5,600!

A new EV owner who is thrilled with her purchase. (Courtesy photo

Barb and Greg Whitchurch

We have been nudging friends toward giving up their gas-mobiles for years now. Our neighbor, in her early ‘80s, discovered in August that hers had become too expensive to repair, and she asked us for […]

Used Plug-in Vehicles are Affordable

Chevy Bolts on display during National Drive Electric Week. (Flickr/Steve Rainwater

Wayne Michaud

For many of us, transportation is an important part of our lives. In more rural areas, transportation choices are usually more limited, leaving us with the most popular choice: the automobile. They get us to where we want to go, […]

What State is the Cheapest to Charge Your EV?

Vernon Trollinger

Reprinted from http://www.texaselectricityratings.com/

You can’t miss them when they drive by you. That is because they are missing both a radiator and an exhaust pipe. They are also practically silent; only a smooth, quiet whirring. With about 2.5 million on U.S. highways already, electric vehicles (EVs) are more noticeable in […]

Earth Day Events Expand to Earth Month

Sherry Boschert

First came National Drive Electric Day, more than a decade ago, when electric vehicle (EV) drivers gathered at events to show their cars and e-bikes and talk about their experiences with the EV-curious who came to ask questions. That expanded in 2014 to National Drive Electric Week events across the United […]

Gasoline is Cheap — but Charging an EV is Still Cheaper

The average price of home charging an electric vehicle in the U.S., is equivalent to $1.41 per gal.

Karin Kirk

It was easy to make the case for the low cost of electric vehicle charging way back in 2022 when gasoline prices were high and charging an EV was about 70% cheaper than filling up […]