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Say Hello To The Cadillac Converj

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Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. Detroit — It’s official: the Cadillac Converj will be the second extended-range electric vehicle that General Motors Co. Tags: Production News Cadillac Converj gm. Lutz: GM to make Cadillac Converj electric car. ALISA PRIDDLE.

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The influencer

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2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

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Toyoda spoke in a news conference that was livestreamed from a memorial hall in Nagoya that serves as a museum for the founding family. His son Kiichiro Toyoda , Akio’s grandfather, founded Toyota Motor Corp. But production has been halted on some of the models, including the 10 models affected by the latest cheating.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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U.S. Battery Makers Power Up

Revenge of the Electric Car

I wrote a few months ago about the Japanese and European carmakers teaming up with Asian and Euro battery manufacturers with $200-$400 million deals to build large production facilities that will soon be cranking out high volumes of LiIon batteries for plug-in cars. As this article explains, we now have movement toward a domestic supply.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Cortada is also a contributor to IEEE Spectrum , most recently of an article this month entitled " How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market ," and in that sense I'm delighted to call him a colleague. It has to be for General Motors, Ford, and so on. He joins us by Skype. Jim, welcome to the podcast.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Indeed, hyped-up product announcements at industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (now CES ) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world. Once Kahn found a venue for the demo—at the International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC), to be held in Washington, D.C.,

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