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UPDATE, FEB. 14, 2:31 P.M.: What a wonderful way to mark Valentine's Day: Adopt a Charger (“Accelerating the adoption of plug-in vehicles via fee-free electric car chargers”) has established the Doug Korthof Memorial Charger Fund. Money raised will be used to install and maintain a charging station near Korthof's Seal Beach home or alma mater, …
This just fell from the virtual sky courtesy of your favorite Seal Beach activist, Doug Korthof: Hi, We all know that Al Gore was swindled in the first of the neo-con “managed elections” of 2000, and that the theft of elections continues to this day via: –Voting Machines fixed, altered or fraudulent, –Local voting personnel …
WRITER’S NOTE: This Ride Me vehicle-review column is the first of two parts featuring the 2018 Chevy Bolt EV Premier. So much happened over the week I test drove the electric car that it did not seem fair to pack into a single story my experiences as well as my opinions about the EV. …
Continue reading “To Live and Die in the Arizona Desert in a 2018 Chevy Bolt EV Premier”
If the 75 or so cars that pulled into a massive Cypress parking lot Sunday seemed unusually quiet, that was by design. Electric car drivers, makers and enthusiasts gathered at the Mitsubishi Motors North America headquarters for Orange County's National Plug In Day celebration. ] See also: Mitsubishi i-MiEV SE is an Electrifying Ride Cal …
One in an occasional series reviewing consumer vehicles that are powered by water, natural gas, electricity, hybrid motors, high-efficiency gasoline engines or some other alternative source. My first item in the “Ride Me” category was an obituary for Seal Beach's Doug Korthof, an environmentalist and electric-car advocate I'd written about and who was later featured …
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Picketers plan to be out at Warner Avenue and Bolsa Chica Road in Huntington Beach from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today to protest existing and planned residences on the Bolsa Chica mesa. While one developer of unsold homes and un-built lots on the land considered sacred by American Indians and overlooking the ecologically sensitive …
Continue reading “As Brightwater Builder Reels, Bolsa Chica Preservationists Keep Up the Pressure”
Electric-car advocate/Toyota Prius critic Doug Korthof of Seal Beach is bullish on the hybrid Nissan LEAF. ] Korthof–who has had supporting roles in OC Weekly stories on mechanical problems with the hybrid Prius, his love of electric cars and the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? (in which he also had a supporting role)–sees the …
UPDATE: The U.S. Transportation Department has opened an investigation into brake problems in 2010 Toyota Prius, according to the Washinton Post. Hot on the heels of Toyota largest recall ever, the Japanese government today called on Toyota to investigate a number of complaints about the 2010 Prius in North America and Japan, potentially spreading the …
Continue reading “[UPDATED:] Remember Our Cover Story About Toyota Prius?”
Wild RidesSometimes the cars accelerate on their own. Sometimes they stop dead. Drivers of the Prius have discovered they can be an unexpected adventure *This article was altered on April 28, 2009. Bobette Riner publishes an electricity index used to promote renewable energy, and she bought a brand-new Prius last…
When the California Coastal Commission meets in Huntington Beach on Thursday, panelists will be staring into at least one familiar face: that of Chief Anthony Morales of the Gabrielino-Tongva Band of Mission Indians (pictured). While the commission deals with coastal development issues up and down the state, their monthly meetings bounce around from…
We swear this will be our final electric-car post, at least until the next one, but there was one other tidbit we learned from Chris Paine, the writer-director of the excellent Who Killed the Electric Car?, which is now playing at Edwards University in Irvine. Paine, Seal Beach activist Doug Korthof and actor-director Peter Horton …
Chris Paine was still flying high Monday morning from the screening of the film he wrote and directed—Who Killed the Electric Car?—at the Los Angeles Film Festival two nights previous. First, it was great being back home from promoting his provocative documentary on the road. It was also nice catching up with several people interviewed in …