Guest Post by Kristy Kravitsky
Believe it or not, electric and hybrid vehicles are popping up left and right- and consumers are loving them. If you can get style, affordability, and spend less money on gas, why not? And guess what else- they help to save the environment. We’re sold!
You don’t need a car owners [...]
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There’s more than just the Nissan LEAF and Chevy Volt as all-electric options for your next car. Ford, one of my favorite auto makers (because they didn’t take government bail-out money), is planning to triple it’s electric vehicle [...]
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GM Announced it would be placing a 516 Kilowatt solar array on it’s property in Detroit. This move will save GM approximately $15,000 annually in electricity costs. The Detroit-Hamtramck plant is responsible for the production of the Chevy Volt, the second greenest car out there. The conversion will include 6 acres of [...]
Continue Reading →Here at Hippie Magazine, we like to cover cool gadgets designed and built by new, visionary companies steeped in the concept of sustainability and environmental awareness. It’s the way of the future, if we hope for a bright one.
But realizing a sustainable future depends just as much, if not more, by old, stodgy big-footed [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve focused a lot on the Nissan LEAF and the Chevy VOLT as the most market-friendly plugin-in electric cars on the market. But now there’s a new option built on a trusted framework. There is now a smart car powered by electricity.
The first SmartCar ForTwo was delivered to a consumer in Maryland, a [...]
Continue Reading →With $99.8 million in Department of Energy grant funding along with private funding, a company called EcoTality will be installing EV charging stations across 6 states. The EV stations will be used to charge electric vehicles (duh) but also to gather data on driver behavior, charging needs and infrastructure demands. This is an excellent [...]
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