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GM adds 3 acres of solar arrays in Michigan

Green Car Congress

After the projects are complete this fall, GM will house more than 38 MW of solar power at 13 facilities around the world and more than 60 MW of renewable energy globally when combined with its landfill gas and biomass energy use. Ever since our first solar array in 2006, GM has realized the benefits of renewable energy.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

On 11 August, GM invited approximately 75 journalists and auto analysts to spend a day learning about the new GM. The day was split between a morning session at the GM tech center in Warren and an afternoon session at the GM proving grounds in Milford, MI. GM’s identify in the US starts with its four core brands.

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The influencer

Electric Auto Association

Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I I kept asking GM people when the car was going into production.

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Volkswagen and Suzuki to Establish Strategic Partnership; VW to Take 19.9% Stake in Suzuki, Suzuki to Invest in VW

Green Car Congress

Because of limited availability of VW stock, the initial Suzuki purchase will be around ¥50 billion (US$569 million), said Osamu Suzuki, Chairman, President, CEO and COO of Suzuki during a press conference in Tokyo. In 2006, that began to unwind, with GM reducing its holding to 3%. What happened to GM was a surprise to US.

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Icelanders get a sneak peek of REVENGE

Revenge of the Electric Car

Early yesterday morning in Los Angeles when it was around dinner time in Reykjavik, Iceland, Chris Paine appeared via Skype at Iceland’s annual Driving Sustainability conference. Storytelling is definitely a filmmaker’s business, and telling the story of the crushing of EV1s in 2006′s Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Goal!

Plug In Partners

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Another of my favorite people on the Southern California environmental scene is State Senator Fran Pavley who also spoke at the press conference. From there she went on to author and spearhead AB 32 our Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. I’ve heard him speak at the Plug-In conference. The batteries work just fine.

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