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Consumer Reports isn't giving all-electric cars and climate change a lot of attention

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Honda will be the next automaker to market an all-electric car as Toyota continues to sit on the sidelines. -- HACKENSACK, N.J. By VICTOR E. SASSON EDITOR Consumer Reports seems to have a blind spot for all-electric cars. The magazine's annual Auto Issue, just out, picks the 10 best new cars for 2017, but all of them use gasoline. For a full report, see: Consumer Reports smells (of gasoline)
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Shocking Car News, a blog written by an EV owner, is moving to The Sasson Report

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The all-electric 2017 Chevrolet Bolt is not expected to be in New Jersey and New York showrooms until March. Shocking Car News , a blog I started after I bought a Tesla Model S, has moved to The Sasson Report , which also covers food,  journalism and other issues. --VICTOR E. SASSON
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You can't buy 2017 North American Car of the Year outside of California and Oregon

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The humble, all-electric 2017 Chevrolet Bolt on display at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit (photo from Mark Brush/Michigan Radio). By VICTOR E. SASSON EDITOR Auto writers from the United States and Canada have crowned an EV you can buy in only two states as 2017 North American Car of the Year. At the international auto show in Detroit, GM's all-electric Chevy Bolt beat out the Genesis luxury sedan and a big Volvo, both powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. I went online to find out whether I can buy a Bolt in New Jersey, and was told the EV is available in limited numbers only in California and Oregon. Here's the result of my live chat: Benjamin : 3:00:38 PM Thank you for your interest in the Bolt EV! The Bolt EV will be available nationally, but the vehicle is currently available in California and Oregon. The national roll-out begins in 2017, and a number of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States, including New York, Massachusetts and Virginia,
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When I'm driving my Tesla, I want everyone to just get the F out of the way

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On the way to the International Jazz Festival in Montreal last July, I stopped at a free Tesla charging station in a mall outside of Albany, N.Y., and found plenty of company. By VICTOR E. SASSON EDITOR Since I took delivery in April 2015, my Tesla Model S has given me more than 12,000 miles of effortless driving in a challenging environment -- northern New Jersey. Affluent Bergen County, where I live, has a street network that hasn't been improved significantly since the 1950s, and some of the lousiest, most discourteous drivers in the nation. They will cut you off without mercy, roll through stop signs right in front of you and tailgate or stop inches behind you at lights. OK. I get that drivers of conventional cars haven't gotten the message about just how fast all-electric cars are, especially how they can leap away from a traffic light in suburban driving. So, please, stop trying to race me or cut me off before you get to that double-parked truck on Cedar Lane in Teaneck o
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