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Fisker Automotive names Tony Posawatz, former head of Volt program, as new CEO

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Posawatz has consistently been recognized as an industry leader in product innovation and electrified vehicles and served as Chairman of the Board for the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA). He is a real product guy for a product driven company. Tony is the perfect CEO for Fisker. —outgoing CEO Tom LaSorda.

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Denise Gray, GMs Director of Battery Engineering, Leaving For California Start-Up

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Denise Gray, Director of Global Battery Engineering for General Motors. since 2006, will leave GM on Friday, 5 March to take a senior. Although Gray has worked for General Motors for more than 30 years, she is best known for her work shepherding the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Further details are.

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GM enters commercial agreement with and invests in Powermat, a personal device inductive charging company

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Chevy Volt Powermat. General Motors and Powermat, a provider of wireless charging technology for mobile personal devices, announced a commercial agreement that will eliminate the need for charging cords for personal electronic devices in many future Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac products beginning mid-2012.

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The 60,000 Volt Question

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23, 2007 -- General Motors Corp. could reportedly produce up to 60,000 Volt electric cars in 2010 , its first anticipated year on the market. GM Product Chief Bob Lutz is quoted in various newspapers saying he wanted to get prototypes of the Volt ready for road tests next year , and ready for sale in 2010.

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Goal!

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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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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. What happens to an electric car deferred?

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‘Revenge’ Hits Indiana

Revenge of the Electric Car

Chris Paine made the 2006 documentary movie, Who Killed the Electric Car. In fact, some of the engineers working in Indiana worked on General Motors EV1, which is the subject of our first film,&# said Paine. Paine is shooting a sequel to his 2006 movie. He likes the new Chevy Volt. He’s excited about the Think.

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