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A 1975 attempt to fight the climate change

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Dear Gov. Brown,

May the Mayors hear your call to act on climate change! My name is Martin Hadzhistoykov and on my part I'm actively promoting electric mobility since 2010. Created 4 EV websites in Bulgaria, am very happy owner of Renault Twizy electric car, and now work on an EV project called "Eco and wine tourism with EVs in Bulgaria." It's unique: two 1975 Buick Electra converted to electric for amazing EV journeys around Bulgarian wineries. I'm calling it MAKING IT NOT SUCK –...

Allow me to inspire you, Phil

{gallery}2015/jul/electra:300:196:1:1{/gallery} Phil, let's inspire you in turn! You made me think about "inspiring hundreds of millions of people" and your responsibility about it – I guess it's something that you felt so deeply in your soul and you realized how big it actually is. Your influence. I'm Martin – running the Bulgarian PokerNews (bg.pokernews.com) with my brother since 2007 (and creator of 4 websites about Electric Vehicles in Bulgaria). With 2015 WSOP getting to a close and all our (Bulgarian) guys out of ME...

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MAKING IT NOT SUCK

For the purpose of awesomeness, we're now calling EV conversions MAKING IT NOT SUCK! "Breathe the free air again, my friend!" 1 A path to release your (classic) car from the oil spell or the V8>EV morph. €195k Project to electrify 2 x 1975 Buick Electra, build 20 charging stations and create mobilde app. To donate for to the project – please call +359 888 919329 or email martin@ecars.bg Project name: “ECO & WINE TOURISM WITH UNIQUE EV CLASSICS” (more…)

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Copenhagen fast story | TESLA – Bulgarian Tesla fan video from a fresh follower

In this blog: Tesla (Model S) video from a Bulgarian EV fan and enthusiast. After a nice meeting with my long time friend and schoold mate Architect Georgi Tsochev of progenerate.eu, together we created a detailed blog about a large-scale innovative project in Sofia (in Bulgarian). Back then Georgi got inside our Renault Twizy for the first time, aksed me a lot of things about EVs and as I discoverd...

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Train on batteries like these in Tesla Model S, but 80,000

In this blog: Experimental train runs on battery power for 45 minutes. Why would a train need batteries when there's wires above to get power from? The answer is – so we stop using diesel trains and be able to travel to distant areas without electrical infrastructure for the trains. There's a lot of such places so a new "autonomous" battery train concept from UK could change a lot of people's lives... (more…)

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Elon Musk says there will be a ‘huge societal pressure for electric cars’

In this blog: Tesla Model X will come out this summer, Model 3 will be $35k WITHOUT federal tax rebate of $7500! At 16:45 locat Detroit time Elon Musk started answering questions as part of Automotive News' World Congress panel. Elon said a lot of interesting and also surprising things, as follows (from journalists Tweets in the rooms)... (more…)

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So people kind of want the Model S battery swap

In this blog: We asked people if they would pay for super fast Model S battery swap and here's the feedback. Once we heard that Tesla Motors is going to try the battery swap opiton for real we wanted to know what people think about it. Knowing it will cost "slightly less than a full tank of gasoline for a premium sedan" and will take just 90 seconds, the poll went online... (more…)

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Leshi throws some Giga-challenge down at Tesla

In this blog: Leshi's founder wants to rival Elon Musk by buiding more and better connected EVs in China. Jia Yueting, 41, made his Leshi Internet Information and Technology a Web TV giant in China, but is now in pursue of another ambition. In the past year Leshi's being busy developing a new vehicle and is about to apply for a manufacturing licence to create "the most connected electric car"... (more…)