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Millions Of Electric Vehicles Are Hidden In Plain Sight

Cushman custom electric passenger vehicle, manufactured in Augusta, Georgia, USA. Image credit: Cushman Anyone who’s been to a golf course has seen electric golf carts. If you fly, you’ll have seen electric vehicles transporting older or disabled passengers across the terminal. Amusement parks and big hotels have them as well. Variations on these familiar but overlooked designs – representing a category known to industry as ‘electric utility vehicles’ – exist for dozens of uses. There are ambulances, “stock chasers,” lunch carts, “bell hops,” and so on. For a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Get In Line to Test-Drive an Electric Car From Hertz

Image: HertzEV website EV Rental Goes Mainstream Almost a year ago, I wrote about how Hertz, the largest car rental company in the United states, was going to have Nissan LEAF electric cars in its fleet . As I said then, I think it’s a great idea to give people a new way to become familiar with electric vehicles and try them for themselves (cars are expensive, so people are hesitant to spend their hard-earned cash on technologies they don’t trust — it took a while for… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Get In Line to Test-Drive an Electric Car From Hertz