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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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‘Tesla Profiles’ brings cloud-based convenience to drivers

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For years, Tesla has talked about launching driver profiles that would allow cars that have multiple drivers, are rentals, or are utilized in a car-sharing service to give profiles to each person driving the car. CEO Elon Musk has talked about the feature since 2017. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 20, 2017.

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Tesla community comes together to fulfill terminally ill Cybertruck fan’s wish

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I tried to get secret info, but Steven was very informative yet vague,” the Wisconsin-based Tesla fan wrote. The Model X owner was given a personal tour of the Fremont Factory, and he spent about an hour chatting with von Holzhausen. He knows Tom Zhu!

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Meet the Newest IEEE-HKN Eminent Member

Cars That Think

She served on the President's Council of Advisors from 2009 to 2017 and was a vice chair from 2010 to 2017. Savitz is the 144th person to be elevated to IEEE-HKN eminent member since the title was established in 1950. For more information, visit the IEEE-HKN website or email info@hkn.org.

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Volkswagen unveils updated Golf; Millerized engines, semi-automated driving, digital cockpit and gesture control

Green Car Congress

inch screen it forms a conceptual and visual entity with the Active Info Display (digital instrument panel), which is also new to the Golf. Diess said that the brand will introduce more than 10 new models and major updates in 2017. This means that drivers constantly have to restore their personal settings. With its 9.2-inch

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Tesla launches ‘Profiles’ for synchronized settings across multiple vehicles

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In November, Not A Tesla App reported that Tesla was working on Cloud-based profiles after CEO Elon Musk had first mentioned the feature in August 2017. “We are going to move all info and settings to the “cloud” (aka server) so any Tesla you drive in the world automatically adjusts to you,” he said.

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BMW to premiere new i3 and i3s EVs at IAA

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BMW will introduce the latest BMW i3—including the first BMW i3s sport model—at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt in September 2017; pricing will be announced closer to market launch. The BMW i3 is the bestselling compact battery-electric vehicle in the premium compact segment worldwide since it was launched in 2014.

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