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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 Test Driving the Volvo C30 DRIVe 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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Blog
Sunday January 29, 2012 – ZEV Mandate Part 4 a New Beginning – This week the California Air Resources Board (CARB) met in Los Angeles to review staff proposals for the continuation of the ZEV mandate from 2018 until 2025. The new stronger measures were approved by a unanimous vote...Continued
Sunday January 22, 2012 - Prius Curse - It seems that I have my own personal curse that bites me when I try to move to the latest technology in personal transportation. I think of this as the Prius Curse but it's really a curse that affects me whenever I decide it's time to become an early adopter...Continued
Sunday January 15, 2012 - 2012 Detroit Auto Show - If the Los Angeles Auto Show disappointed with a blast of bigger less fuel efficient cars, this year’s Detroit Auto Show is where the manufacturers chose to show off their move to vehicle electrification...Continued
Sunday January 8, 2011 - 2011 EV Sales - Now that the year is over we are starting to get some real numbers for sales of electric cars and the numbers look OK to me although the two major sellers fell a little short of their sales targets. While this doesn't surprise me, I have been saying all along that sales would start slowly; some in the media are already starting to call electric cars a failure. I thought I would give my take on the sales numbers...Continued
Sunday January 1, 2012 – 2011 A Retrospective – 2011 is behind us and what a banner year this has been for battery electric vehicles. When the year started Nissan and GM had just made their first few deliveries of the Leaf and Volt respectively and the march toward a change in our transportation paradigm had just begun...Continued
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Media
Video What is the electric car 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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