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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

Friday November 14th, 2008 - GM Training Center - Burbank, CA. City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. Former EV1 driver Chris Reeves's 1997 GM Chevy S10 EV. said Holden.

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Event: “Building an Electric Future” at the Petersen

Clean Fleet Report

1996 General Motors EV1. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 2008 Tesla Roadster. Corbin Sparrow. Corbin Sparrow. 1996 Corbin Sparrow. 50 mile range. 100 mile range. Nissan Hypermini. Nissan Hypermini. 2001 Nissan Hypermini. 72 mile range. 211 mile range. 2009 Tesla Model S prototype. 2009 Tesla Model S prototype.

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EcoMotors Names Donald Runkle CEO; Power Density as the Holy Grail

Green Car Congress

EcoMotors was founded in 2008 by Prof. His accomplishments at GM include production programs that won “Top 10 Engine” and “Car of the Year” awards, and also numerous advanced concepts demonstrating high efficiency and high performance such as GM’s EV1 electric car, the 100 mpg Ultralite, and the CERV III concept Corvette.

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MINI E charge station initial site inspection

Revenge of the Electric Car

Stefano Paris at the November 19th, 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show unveiling of the MINI E. If you’ve been following the BMW MINI E program unveiled officially on November 19th, 2008 at the Los Angeles Auto Show you’ll know the process for being selected as a potential MINI E driver is a multistep one.

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Honda: 12 more years of no choice for consumers

Plugs and Cars

He said Honda would begin selling the car in 2008. Reminiscent of GM referring to EV1 drivers as "owners," despite their unwillingness to actually sell the car. I asked if he meant "selling" the car. Yes, he said. So I repeated, with emphasis, "selling?" And he confessed it would be, like the short-lived all-electric EV+, lease only.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? htm Advocates of the Th!

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

You can read all about it in my Greenius guide to plug-ins and my coverage of Plug-In 2008. And of course, your never humble Creative Greenius was on the scene to bring you this first hand report with my own photos as well as the superb camera work by Debra Bushweit Galliani who took the following shots.

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