Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

As GM's first battery electric car since the EV1 of the 1990s, there's more riding on the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV electric minicar than its size would indicate. The company maintains the electric Spark is not just a compliance car, but a fully developed product to be sold not only in California, but in Korea and other markets.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 11, 2009

Four hundred fifty electric Minis will hit the road in the next few weeks in California, New York and New Jersey. Ex-EV1 drivers will be among those taking advantage of their first opportunity to get back in an electric car. Ex-EV1 drivers will be among those taking advantage of their first opportunity to get back in an electric car.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

He drove one of only a few hundred original GM EV1 two-seat electric cars almost 20 years ago. Bill Nye, better known as "The Science Guy" on the popular PBS children's series that bears his name, loves electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2016

the giant Japanese integrated trading company, will start selling fuel cells for commercial vehicles via a partnership with California-based US Hybrid. The company is privately held and was founded in Torrance, California by Dr. Abas Goodarzi, Ph.D, The Nikkei reports that Sumitomo Corp.,

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2022

Even before the introduction of the General Motors EV1 in 1996, it was clear that if we’re ever going to replace cars powered by fossil fuels with electric vehicles, we’ll need batteries that take and deliver charge reliably in both hot and cold climates. Lakshay Khurana and Daniel Keppeler. Weather-beating Battery.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

In 2003 Vacaville, also known as Voltageville , was miles ahead of other cities with over 100 electric cars on the road in both GM EV1 s and Toyota RAV4-EV s. The California Air Resources Board’s 1990 Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate would have required 10% of all vehicles sold in California to be zero emissions.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. The vehicle inspired California’s ZEV mandate, instituted in 1990. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration recently approved Nuro to test its driverless delivery vehicles on public roads in California, which accelerates the feasibility of self-driving delivery coming to market. Power studied consumer interest in electric vehicles when the GM EV1 was launching.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 12, 2009

However, by the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed. Instead, I found what was purported to be the very last electric car available for sale in the state of California—a Toyota EV. A letter in response to Peter J. MAY 18, 2009.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 12, 2009

However, by the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed. Instead, I found what was purported to be the very last electric car available for sale in the state of California—a Toyota EV. RE: THE ROAD AHEAD A letter in response to Peter J.

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All Cars Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

While the EV1 was making waves smoothly whirring down the freeways and highways of Arizona and California, an altogether more rugged fleet of electric utility trucks were living a less obviously electric lifestyle. Think back to the late 1990s. Enter GM’s S10 Pickup and Ford’s Electric Ranger.

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Teslarati

JUNE 16, 2021

The Detroit-based GM entered the EV sector with the EV1 in 1996, which used a 16.5-18.7 Safely deploying self-driving technology at scale: Cruise, GM’s majority-owned subsidiary, recently became the first company to receive permission from regulators in California to provide a driverless AV passenger service to the public.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

At the same time Chevrolet announced their new Bolt EV with a 238 mile range and even though GM was the one who killed the EV1 electric car and General Motors was one of the worst run corporations on the planet, I decided to give the new government-rescued GM a chance. But I needed to see and feel the car for myself.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2018

was unaware that modern electric cars got their start in California between 1996 and 2002. Most of the U.S. Many of the earliest owners and EV advocates from those days remain involved 20 years later, though their names may be familiar only to a small group of activists.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

EVs on display at the California Automobile Museum. The Sacramento Electric Vehicle Association (SacEV) has a history of holding chapter meetings at the California Automobile Museum , but until last year, it was on a very occasional basis. SacEV chapter meets at the California Automobile Museum.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. Paine followed the plight of his EV1 to its (literally) crushing end. Paine followed the plight of his EV1 to its (literally) crushing end.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

Perhaps Lutz's mistaken impressions about the EV1 and electric cars color his understanding of what NiMH can achieve. (Or Or perhaps GM's disinformation campaign about the successes of the EV1 and its NiMH batteries is still in force.) Could Lutz not know the range of an EV1?

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EV Life

AUGUST 4, 2023

General Motors was one of the original pioneers of electric cars, introducing the EV1 in 1996 and the game-changing Volt in 2010. Chevrolet has continued that trend in the last few years—emerging as a major leader in the electric vehicle industry. Clean Vehicle Assistance Program.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 27, 2007

Many of our members, including myself, drove ZEV Mandate battery electric cars - GM EV1, Honda EV+, Ford Th!nk Tags: robert sawyer california air resources board zev mandate fuel cell hydrogen. Chairman Sawyer, Members, my name is Marc Geller, and I represent the San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

GM waxed hot and cold on the EV1. California’s ZEV mandate put EVs into consumers’ hands, only to be eviscerated by automaker and oil lobbying, federal intervention, and CARB’s capitulation to well-funded hydrogen hype. California hasn’t blinked in its commitment to Schwarznegger’s pet project, the hydrogen highway.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Saturday, January 17, 2009, Santa Monica, California - Inaugural Parade West. Since 1999, Ed has been Director of the Electric Transportation Division at Southern California Edison. Another of my favorite people on the Southern California environmental scene is State Senator Fran Pavley who also spoke at the press conference.

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Green Cars News

MAY 18, 2009

The original piece by Peter J Boyer assumed that Hanks had at one time owned the EV1 briefly touted by GM. However, Hanks was quick to point out that this was not the case in his response: “By the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 12, 2009

In January 2009 I was excited to learn I was selected to be one of the potential 250 lessees of the MINI E being deployed in Southern California this year. The window to apply for a lease of a MINI E was from November 19th to December 24th, 2008 via an hour long online questionnaire.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This article is part of a short series on the history of EVs. You can find Part 1 here. The Tesla Roadster Both the compliance cars and the serious cars since 2010 have one big thing in common: they were forced into existence by pressure from the Tesla Roadster. Like the newer non-compliance EVs, it […].

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm Congresswoman Linda T. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

In 1989, GM was selling small cars with a variety of origins, including the slightly revised Toyota Corollas (branded as the Chevrolet Nova) that were assembled in a joint Toyota-GM plant in Fremont, California (now home to Tesla).

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 3, 2011

The situation is similarly bleak in Southern California. Problem #2: It needs to be noted (especially by new drivers) that the electrons don't just flow from many of these public J-plugs when you plug into the car as they do for the previous generation - EV1s and RAV4 EVs.

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EV Life

MARCH 7, 2023

GM has been one of the pioneers of electric vehicles, introducing the General Motors EV1 back in 1996 and the groundbreaking Chevy Volt in 2010. California Electric Car Rebates Clean Vehicle Rebate Program: $7,500 California has a variety of programs incentivizing EV purchases that can help consumers purchase a Chevy Bolt EV or EUV.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2009

California law requires that the Volt and other plug-in hybrids come with a 10-year warranty. But not a single production plug-in electric vehicle sold to date, from GM’s early EV1 to today’s Tesla, has had a warranty of more than five years, noted Plug In America advisory board member Chelsea Sexton.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

Inductive charging with a paddle-type connector was used in a number of earlier EVs, notably GM’s EV1, the Nissan Hypermini EV, and the Toyota RAV4. Subsequently, GM suspended production of its Gen2+ MagneCharge units in 2002.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

Along with Tedd Abramson’s Zero Truck in San Diego and Smith Trucks in London, we now have EVI (I keep wanting to write that as EV1:~). Although funded as a startup with money from the California state government, EVI, as it is called, began marketing in Mexico because the U.S. Electric Vehicles International isn’t new.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

The automotive and green electric vehicle blogosphere has been abuzz with talk of the BMW MINI E ever since July 9th, 2008, when AutoblogGreen published the rumor that 500 of the intriguing new electric cars would be released later this year in California. Amazing AC Propulsion eBoxes at AltCarExpo Saturday, September 27th, 2008.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Fortunately there are companies at the Plug-In Conference who exceed expectations and one of them is Coulomb out of Campbell, California. One of the most impressive newcomers to the show, but by no means to the technology is another California company famous for innovation and genius level talent. How's that for an endorsement?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car proponents at The California Cars Initiative believe the task force was unduly influenced by “plug-in skeptics” at the Boston Consulting Group , which is under government contract to provide input on the prospects for G.M. They are evidently conspiring with the oil companies otherwise why else would they destroy the EV1s.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

When GM installed chargers for the EV1 they used a 50amp 220V circuit that could pump over 6KW into the batteries. A visit to the gas station takes minutes not seconds and so the California Air Resource board, when it established fast charging standards, set the goal of charging the batteries to 80% in 10 minutes.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Posted by: J-Bob | Apr 13, 2009 4:48:10 PM "Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Posted by: canderson | Apr 13, 2009 5:02:50 PM The EV1 gave drivers 80 miles on a charge. Thats right.

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