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Seattle mayor wants his city to be on bleeding edge of EVs

Seattle mayor Greg Nickels is a fan of electric vehicles and wants his constituents to feel the same way. In recent months, the Pacific Northwest city has signed a deal with Nissan to be one of the first locations to get its upcoming electric vehicles and Nickels wants to rapidly build out an infrastructure to support them and other plug-ins. The city owns it's own power utility and was the first to become at least nominally carbon neutral. The energy it doesn't get from hydroelectric dams has been offset or conserved in other ways. Seattle ... Read more →

World Electric Vehicle Association recognizes Seattle for sustainability efforts Sam Abuelsamid

The city of Seattle has made a lot of progress toward encouraging sustainable transportation in the Pacific Northwest. In recognition of these efforts, the World Electric Vehicle Association will be ...

U.S. mayors think climate change can be affected by a change of climate in D.C. Sebastian Blanco

The President sucked a lot of the media air from other green news this week (or was it a lot of hot air?) with his statement on alternative energy-powered cars in his State of the Union address. But ...

Seattle mayor wants his city to be on bleeding edge of EVs 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Seattle mayor Greg Nickels is a fan of electric vehicles and wants his constituents to feel the same way. In recent months, the Pacific Northwest city has signed a deal with Nissan to be one of the first locations to get its upcoming electric vehicles and Nickels wants to rapidly build out an ...

World Electric Vehicle Association recognizes Seattle for sustainability efforts 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

The city of Seattle has made a lot of progress toward encouraging sustainable transportation in the Pacific Northwest. In recognition of these efforts, the World Electric Vehicle Association will be presenting its E-Visionary award to Seattle mayor Greg Nickels on Friday. The Osaka prefecture in ...

U.S. mayors think climate change can be affected by a change of climate in D.C. 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The President sucked a lot of the media air from other green news this week (or was it a lot of hot air?) with his statement on alternative energy-powered cars in his State of the Union address. But the SOTU wasn't the only energy policy news out there this week. On the other end of the ...


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