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GM and PHEV Maker Bright Automotive Announce Strategic Relationship; GM Ventures Funding

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Bright Automotive, the developer of the purpose-built, plug-in hybrid IDEA ( earlier post ), and General Motors Co. GM has provided funding to the Indiana automaker, the first funding action by the newly formed General Motors Ventures LLC ( earlier post ). Reuben Munger, Bright Automotive Chairman and CEO.

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GM Invests In Plug-In Hybrid Truckmaker Bright Automotive

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General Motors announced today that it will invest in startup Bright Automotive, which hopes to start final production engineering of its Idea plug-in hybrid delivery van design later this year.

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AM General the exclusive North American assembler for Bright Idea plug-in hybrid electric work-truck platform

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Bright Automotive, Inc. has entered into an agreement for AM General LLC to be Bright’s exclusive North American assembler for the Bright IDEA vehicle platform. AM General will build the Bright IDEA in its Commercial Assembly Plant in Mishawaka, Ind., under a contract assembly agreement.

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GM and Bright Automotive announce partnership plans

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Aug 3, Detroit, MI and Anderson, IN - Bright Automotive and General Motors have announced plans to begin what they're calling a strategic partnership. The deal will help Bright start mass production of their plug-in hybrid fleet vehicle,

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

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This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. 195, Bright will be building cars that “do more with less&# , a philosophy MacCready was famous for (and the title of a wonderful biography on him). January 21, 2009.

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GM looking to combination of internal R&D and external investments for new technology; focus on five key areas; the importance of generational change

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When we generate heat we have to cool it, and that’s additional cost as well.”. Scale or generational change. GM Ventures also had a stake in Bright Automotive ( earlier post ), which shut down earlier this year. Systems for charging, cooling, etc.

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‘Revenge’ Hits Indiana

Revenge of the Electric Car

In fact, some of the engineers working in Indiana worked on General Motors EV1, which is the subject of our first film,&# said Paine. In fact, he was in Anderson Thursday taking pictures of an electric delivery van being designed by Bright Automotive. Tags: In the Media Production Diary Indiana.

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