Tag: Plug In America

My friend Paul Scott has been active in the environmental movement and the push for electric transportation since long before he co-founded Plug-In America with Chelsea Sexton in 2005.  Accompanying his video here, he writes: Wanted to share a sliver …

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There may be certain ambiguities about the intention of America’s Founding Fathers.  Does the Second Amendment grant the right of all individual citizens to own automatic weapons? (Doesn’t seem reasonable to me that the answer could be yes, but apparently, …

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In response to this piece reminding us of Eisenhower’s warning about the military industrial complex, my colleague, Plug-In America co-founder Paul Scott writes:  

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Here’s a letter discussing the U.S. EPA’s attack on our existing standards for clean transportation, from Plug-in America, the largest advocacy group for electric vehicles in the world. I’ve had the pleasure of working with this organization’s co-founders, Chelsea Sexton …

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The other day I asked my friend Paul Scott, who co-founded the EV advocacy group Plug-In America and currently sells the Leaf at the Nissan dealership in downtown Los Angeles, about environmentally friendly cars, specifically about the real environmental benefits …

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXd-xk-rCRU&w=445&h=364] Do you have a clean energy story that you’d like to tell the world? One day each month, I shoot a series of short television shows called the “2GreenEnergy Video Report” in which I interview folks with interesting stories …

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I know not everyone studies the well-to-wheels comparisons of fuel sources for transportation, and that there are people who harbor grave misunderstanding in the area.  Here, frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: With our current grid, nearly 100% of the energy …

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I just came across this article on Chrysler’s plan to offer a natural gas-based car in 2017.  I know this sounds like a strange reaction, but personally, this cheeses me off.  I see it is an attempt to confuse and …

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When my friend Paul Scott, co-founder of Plug-In America took a trip to Yokohama last June to test drive the Nissan Leaf, I never dreamed it would include a private lunch with CEO, Carlos Ghosn — and ultimately — a …

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Bc1eDlqmI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1] Here’s another segment of a recent episode of the 2GreenEnergy Report in which Paul Scott of Plug-in America discusses electric transportation with me. Here, he talks about the environmental trade-offs represented by electric vehicles.

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