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My name is Noel Adams and I run the evfinder.com web site among other things. I also write the occasional article for Electrifying Times and EV World. I am British but have lived in the Southern California area for over a quarter of a century. Before moving to the US I also spent four years working for an automobile manufacturer in the middle east.
I developed an interest in Electric Vehicles back around 1990 and my interest became an obsession when I tried unsuccessfully to lease a GM EV1. I realized that it was really difficult for people to even find information about electric vehicles, and finding an actual car was all but impossible. I decided to do something about it and started EVFinder.com. Now the evfinder web site gets about 60,000 hits per month and I have helped hundreds of people to find an electric car. Still, as Rodney Dangerfield says, "I get no respect". It gets frustrating at times to get totally ignored by a company like Tesla Motors. At times I feel like giving up then I get a dealer who tells me that their business depends on referrals from my site and it all seems worth while again.
The following page will contain my own thoughts on a variety of topics related to electric vehicles and will also allow me to stray off topic a bit and look at other issues such as hybrid vehicles - I own a Prius - and issues surrounding air pollution and oil addiction, which are the reasons I got interested in Electric Vehicles in the first place.
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My Articles
Electrifying Times Cruising the Las Vegas Strip in a Kool Kar Ford Focus PZEV at LA Auto Show Why is GM Crushing their EV-1s Battle Rages over the ZEV mandate
EV World Battery Range: Yours will vary GM Electric Cars II, 2006 LA Auto Show An Electric Car murder mystery Why we need alternatives to oil
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Sunday 7/25/2010 - Leaf Charger Survey Upsets EV Drivers - It shouldn't come as a surprise that some of the first customers lining up for a Nissan Leaf are existing EV drivers that want to either replace an aging EV or add a second EV to the family fleet. The first step in getting the Leaf they ordered is a site survey for the charger install and this has gotten some existing EV drivers riled up...Continued
Sunday July 18, 2010 - Rollout of J1722 Chargers - I have been having some discussions this week about the way that the new J1722 compliant charging stations will be rolled out to the existing EV charging stations here in California. Much of the existing infrastructure, which used to number over 400 sites but has gradually being whittled down, will not support the new generations of electric vehicles about to hit our roads...Continued
Sunday July 11, 2010 - Scientific American EV Bashing - The upcoming availability of Electric and Plug-in Hybrid vehicles is causing somewhat of a stir in some quarters, and this is leading to a spate of articles that try and cast big doubts about the benefits of electric vehicles. The latest publication to do this is Scientific American with an EV Bashing article entitled "The Dirty Truth About Plug-in Hybrids"...Continued
Sunday July 4, 2010 - Volt Sales Area Expanded - The news broke earlier this week that GM has increased the number of areas where they will initially start selling the Chevy Volt. The new areas are mostly around New York City but one area came as quite a surprise; Texas...Continued
Sunday June 27, 2010 - Pollution Proposition - I was reading an article in the LA Times this week about a proposition that is being included on the November ballot here in California with the objective of delaying implementation of AB 32, California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions legislation...Continued
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Media
Video Plug-in America Press Conference in Sacremento Electric Wheels on Salem News.com
Books Build your own Electric Vehicle - Bob Brant Convert it - Michael Brown The lost Cord - Barbara Bradford Solo my life with an electric car - Noel Perrin
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