Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

announced that former GM executive Robert C. From 1994 to 2002, Purcell led the GM Advanced Technology Vehicles Group (GM ATV). In addition to his responsibilities at GM ATV, he also served as chairman of the GM-Ovonic Advanced Battery Joint Venture. Click to enlarge. Li-ion manufacturer Boston-Power, Inc.,

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

BYD Seagull (Dolphin Mini) testing (Source: BYD) With prices under $10,000, BYD’s new Seagull has sent shockwaves throughout the global auto industry. Former GM exec and current president of automotive at Caresoft Global, Terry Woychowski, said BYD’s new EV could be a “clarion call for the rest of the industry.”

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CN EV Post

MARCH 9, 2023

The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) announced on March 9 the top selling models and car companies in China in February, presenting a panoramic view of the Chinese auto industry. 4 Li Auto L8 8,192 NA NA 5 Li Auto Li L9 7,299 NA NA 6 BMW X5 7,034 NA NA 7 Mercedes-Benz GLB 5,954 3,030 96.5%

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, automakers boasted about horsepower and towing capabilities in their cars and pickups, but in the fast-changing world of technology that now dominates the auto industry, software-driven enhancements are prominent in consumers’ minds. As of Wednesday, GM still had not delivered a fix. General Motors on Dec.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 12, 2023

The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) announced on April 11 the top selling models and car companies in China in March, presenting a panoramic view of the Chinese auto industry. 7 SAIC-GM 65,021 70,021 -7.1% 14 SAIC-GM-Wuling 49,199 70,841 -30.6% 7 SAIC-GM 173,063 263,063 -34.2% 8 NIO 10,378 9,985 3.9%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The growth capital and Chinese government incentives will be used predominantly to scale manufacturing, research and development, and business development activities in China for the company’s energy storage technology and products. Boston-Power, Inc., GSR Ventures has offices in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Purcell, Jr., Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

More BigCharts Virtual Stock Exchange FiLife.com WSJ Asia WSJ Europe WSJ Portuguese WSJ Spanish WSJ Chinese SEARCH Welcome, Logout My Account My Online Journal Help Message Center ( new) U.S. The machine, which GM says it aims to develop by 2012, would run on batteries and use wireless technology to avoid traffic backups and navigate cities.

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Jeremiads lamenting China’s takeover of the global auto industry are everywhere these days. Each reaches basically the same conclusion: the global non-Chinese automakers will never be able to catch up unless they radically change their corporate mindsets. Three recent accounts stand out from the pack.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Here we are four months later: GM is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy , and its turnaround plan — which gave the Chevy Volt a central role – has gotten a less-than-rave review from the Obama administration.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

Bob Lutz, the outgoing vice chairman of GM, has said the company will produce about 8,000 Chevy Volts in 2011. Similarly, in China, the sheer size of the auto industry and the country’s ambitious clean-energy goals suggest a potentially huge market for electric cars. Chinese green-car subsidies on hold.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Alternative-fuel cars were some of the hottest items on display at the Shanghai auto show from homegrown companies like Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., The battery-powered cars that Chinese companies are showing are intended to be much less expensive than those planned by big foreign companies. Gasgoo.com | ?? | Great Wall Motor Co.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. John Waters, the CEO of Bright Automotive, is a veteran of Detroits auto industry, just like most of the Bright team. • MORE: "How to Build a 100 Mile-Per-Gallon Car. Yep, a truck.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 24, 2009

I write a monthly column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. As March came to a close, the Obama administration found GM and Chrysler’s restructuring plans “not viable.” GM CEO Rick Waggoner was pushed out and the company got sixty days to get its act together. Here's my April column.

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Plug In India

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are a large number of established Chinese electric car makers: BYD, SIAC, XPENG, NIO, WULING, CHERY, and more. Chinese auto will play a significant role in the auto industry in the future. The Japanese giants, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, are in denial, whereas the Americans giants, Ford and GM, are floundering.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

GM, though, is promising it will meet heavier towing requirements with its 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV. However, Lucid Group CEO Peter Rawlinson in a non-too subtle dig at both Ford and GM said , “The correct solution for an affordable pickup truck today is the internal combustion engine.” BEVs dwell at the bottom of the rankings.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. April 17, 2009 11:38 am Link Goodbye GM. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I

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EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

New Chinese Mini EV flying off the lots – Chinese customers took delivery of 200,000 Wuling Hongguang Mini EVs in the vehicle’s first 200 days of production. According to the Asian auto industry gurus at ZoZo Go , it’s the strongest product debut in the history of four-wheeled vehicles.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

Toyota just joined Tesla and GM as “victims of their own success” in hitting the 200,000 threshold for rebates to be phased out over a one-year period after which, under the pre-IRA regime, no further rebates can be earned. if they can meet these strictures, Tesla, GM and Toyota are back in the rebate game!

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Teslarati

AUGUST 26, 2021

In his latest video, Munro doesn’t hold back and spits out truths about the US government’s approach towards improving the local auto industry and its chosen champions in the fight to dominate the global car market. Munro Live has become a channel where car expert Sandy Munro can educate the public on the inner workings of vehicles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

But it is a price that must be paid, and GM should be commended for remaining committed to the Volt. It isa fundamental change in direction for GM. GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. GM is developing more fuel-efficient vehicles. Thats short-sighted.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

For example, with increasing evidence of genocidal Chinese government towards Uyghur residents, including forced labor camps, the lack of transparency regarding whether any Chinese EVs benefit from such labor prompts me to deduct 1 production point from China (out of ~25 it had earned). Globally ~14k Ioniq BEVs were sold.

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

In a letter seen initially by Reuters , Ford’s Jim Farley, GM’s Mary Barra, Stellantis’ Carlos Tavares, and Toyota North America’s Tetsuo Ogawa urged congress to eliminate the caps, which apply to any automaker after they sell 200,000 EV units.

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