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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, 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 10 Plug-in cars you can buy today 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
Green Hybrid
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Sunday March 24, 2019 – AI challenges – AI is already part of our present. Researches are already using Neural Networks, computers that behave like the human brain, to search through vast amounts of data such as the information generated by a run of the large hadron collider. Other people are working on autonomous driving systems and building robots that can think and operate independently...Continued
Sunday March 17, 2019 – Tesla Model Y - On Thursday night I watched the live stream of the Tesla Model Y reveal. The event was much less flashy than earlier Tesla reveals with the rollout of the Model Y seemingly an afterthought to a long ramble by Elon Musk on the history of Tesla. Nevertheless, I am pretty sure that Tesla is going to have another hit on their hands...Continued
Sunday March 10, 2019 – 2019 Geneva Auto Show – One of the biggest auto shows in the year is currently underway in Geneva and this year Electric Vehicles are pretty much front and center. The reason is not hard to understand, Europe is tightening emission and fuel economy standards while increasingly banning heavily polluting cars like diesels. To meet the new standards car manufacturers are turning to electrification...Continued
Sunday March 3, 2019 – Tesla Base Model 3 Available – When Tesla announced the Model 3 they said that it would have a base model with a starting price around $35,000. When the Model 3 first launched thy only offered the long range version which was priced considerably higher than $35,000. Subsequently they announced a mid range version that was less expensive than the long range version but still quite a bit more than the base price. Well the good news is that Tesla has now started taking orders for the base model and it can be configured for the $35,000 target price...Continued
Sunday February 24, 2019– Methane and Eating Meat – Whenever I read anything about how to personally cut down on greenhouse emissions one of the first things I see is to "eat less meat". I have always been confused by this but this week I finally learned a bit about the life cycle of methane in the atmosphere and while I'm not totally convinced that going vegan will help fight global warming, I at least have a better understanding about what is going on...Contunued
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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 Energy and EV secrets - Russell Sydney 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 Plug-in Hybrids the Cars That Will Recharge America - Sherry Boschert.
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