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InsideEVs Exclusive Interview with General Motors EV1 Marketing Director John Dabels - Part 1

InsideEVs

Whether you were exposed to the EV1 through the 2006 documentary “Who Killed the Electri Car”, or if you have been a fan right from the beginning. It is hard to be an EV fan and not know a little about the EV1. I recently had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with John Dabels, the Marketing Director of the EV1.

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The Corvette's Executive Chief Engineer is Retiring After a Storied 47-Year-Long Career

The Truth About Cars

The Chevy Corvette got its most dramatic makeover ever in 2020, but the man behind the car’s evolution since 2006 recently announced his retirement. Tadge Juechter, the Corvette Executive Chief Engineer, is retiring from General Motors after a career that spanned 47 years. Image: Chevrolet/General Motors] Become a TTAC insider.

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GM may have found its solution to its Ultium bottlenecks

Teslarati

General Motors may have found its solution to the trouble and bottlenecks it has had with the Ultium battery project. That solution lies within Kurt Kelty, a former Tesla battery technology senior director, who will join General Motors later this month as the company’s Vice President of Batteries.

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GM becomes top automaker in the US, but its EV sales lag competitors

Teslarati

General Motors (GM) has announced its Q4 auto sales, showing that it has become the top automaker in the United States for 2022. As General Motors has quickly fallen behind traditional and up-and-coming rivals alike regarding EV sales, specifically Tesla, Hyundai/Kia, and Ford, it has moved towards more electric models and production.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. Our nameless reviewer felt , back in 2006, that the Vue's panel gaps made it the "automotive equivalent of a shotgun shack" and calculated that the Green Line version would require 90,000 miles of driving with $2.15/gallon

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Should Hummer return, all-electric? Twitter poll results

Green Car Reports

For those of us who remember what General Motors’ Hummer brand symbolized—especially around 2006, when sales peaked—it’s a little hard to fathom the idea that it might have any future as way for GM to green its reputation.

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Isuzu signs agreement with GM for joint development of next-generation midsize pickup; not for US or Canada

Green Car Congress

Isuzu Motors Limited and General Motors Company signed a formal agreement jointly to develop a next-generation midsize pickup. Isuzu and GM previously developed two generations of pickups that have been popular in more than 100 countries around the world due to their strong performance, fuel efficiency and durability.

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