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Ex-Tesla exec joins General Motors’ Board: ‘GM & Mary Barra are marching towards an electric future’

Teslarati

Between 2015 and 2018, he served as Tesla’s President of Global Sales, Marketing, Government Relations, and Delivery & Service. . Earlier this month, GM announced plans to pause the production of the GMC Hummer EV for several weeks. I’m super excited to be a part of this iconic U.S.

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Vaclav Smil: Cars weigh too much

Green Car Congress

I regularly see a woman driving a Hummer 2 that easily weighs 50 times as much as she does. Vaclav Smil (2015) “Cars Weigh Too Much” Spectrum, IEEE vol.52, Assuming a 70 kg passenger, a 7 kg bicycle has a weight ratio of 0.1; a modern bus, 5 or less; the Model T, 7.7; a Toyota Camry, 20; the F-150, 32. 24,24 doi: 10.1109/MSPEC.2015.6995626.

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VW 'Cheat Mode' Test, Tesla Model X Tax Break, Mitsubishi eX Concept: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, Consumer Reports tests the Volkswagen diesel "cheat mode," the Tesla Model X gets a tax break formerly used for HUMMERs, and the Mitsubishi eX electric crossover concept appears ahead of its official debut at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Self-Driving Tesla, New Prius Details, Big Electric VW Coming: The Week In Reverse (Video)

Green Car Reports

Which new electric car is generating comparisons to the hated HUMMER? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, October 16, 2015. And, what eagerly awaited new green car has had dribs and drabs of information trickling out for weeks now?

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GM and Chrysler Submit Updated Restructuring Plans; Up to $18.6B More Needed; Outlines for Product Plans

Green Car Congress

Elements of the new plan include: GM will sell or phase out the Hummer brand by 31 March, with a final resolution no later than 2010. Pontiac will serve as a focused brand with fewer entries, within the Buick-Pontiac-GMC channel. GM will have a total of 36 nameplates in 2012, down 25% from 2008 levels. GM Fuel Economy plans. Click to enlarge.

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Abandoned History: The 2014 VIA VTRUX Pickup, a Forgotten Silverado

The Truth About Cars

In 2009 Raser displayed a Hummer H3 that claimed to return up to 100 miles* on a gallon of fuel (*in local daily driving) when it was outfitted with the company’s range-extender plug-in electric powertrain. This sort of topic is the very reason Abandoned History exists. Let’s learn about the world of VTRUX.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude. Fast forward to 2015, and we have largely blown through all of those predictions. GM has plans—for an electric Hummer of all things.