electric cars

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Some people in South Florida are finding it difficult to flee Irma because they cannot fill their tanks up with gasoline. Many gas stations are shuttered. Others have extremely long lines.
But people with electric cars such as a Chevy Bolt or Tesla 3 do not need gasoline. At least until the hurricane hits, they have electricity and can fuel their automobiles with it.
The new generation of electric cars gets over 200 miles on a charge.

Exclusive: Despite resistance from the oil industry and Team Trump, the transition to electric vehicles is accelerating, with key foreign countries and some U.S. states taking the lead, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Even as the Trump administration scrubs…Read more →

Forcing people into public transportation is a long-standing goal of the UN as a means of getting people out of rural areas and into cities where they can be more effectively monitored and controlled. [...]

(ANTIMEDIA) — Providing further evidence that the day of the gas-powered car is all but done, one of the old guard members of the auto industry just announced that within two years, all its new vehicle models will be based on emerging technologies. From a Reuters report on Wednesday:

(ANTIMEDIA) — On May 5, Anti-Media reported on a recent study that predicts gas-powered car ownership will plummet 80 percent by the year 2030. The reason for this, researchers laid out in detail, is the rise of electric vehicles. From that study:

(ANTIMEDIA) In early May, Anti-Media reported on a new study published by a Stanford professor claiming vehicle ownership will drop 80 percent by 2030. That study, as The Telegraph wrote this week, has been making the rounds in environmental circles and in the board rooms of companies with a stake in the fossil fuel game.

(ANTIMEDIA) “We are on the cusp of one of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruptions of transportation in history. But there is nothing magical about it. This is driven by the economics.”

(ANTIMEDIA) Riding a sudden wave of confidence about the soon-to-be-launched Model 3, Tesla, Inc.’s stock surged upward over the weekend, putting it above Ford in terms of market value.