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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

That’s me on January 16, 2017, with my brand new Chevy Bolt EV Premier edition in my garage at home. Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us.

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Bob Lutz called 2017 Chevy Bolt EV a 'compliance car'; is it?

Green Car Reports

Electric-car advocates are often passionate, with memories long enough to remember GM's 2004 destruction of its pioneering fleet of EV1 electric cars.

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GM Confirms Electric-Car Name Will Be 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV

Green Car Reports

The Volt-with-a-V is Chevy''s now-established plug-in hybrid compact hatchback. Green Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Chevrolet Bolt Chevrolet Bolt EV EV1 Future Cars plug-in cars' That''s Bolt-with-a-B, not Volt-with-a-V. DON''T MISS: Why ''Bolt'' Is A Really Terrible Name For Chevy''s Electric Car An all-new.

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Science Guy Bill Nye buys Chevy Bolt EV, his seventh electric car

Green Car Reports

He drove one of only a few hundred original GM EV1 two-seat electric cars almost 20 years ago. Three weeks ago, he took delivery of a brand-new "Kinetic Blue" 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV—and he says he couldn't be happier.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

The car has been rolling along ever since, including a plug-in hybrid Prime model today and variants that were discarded along the way. Good examples of all-new electric cars are the Nissan Leaf battery-electric and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid , which both debuted in 2010 as 2011 models. Nissan’s Leaf stood alone as an EV.

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