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Good News for Fleets: GM Announces Next-Gen Chevy Bolt

Green Fleet Magazine

The affordable Chevrolet Bolt EV is not being discontinued after all, according to GM CEO Mary Barra on the company's quarterly conference call.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

Teslarati

The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Only it didn’t.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XVIX)

The Truth About Cars

Since then, I discovered this April 1957 edition of The Cadillac Serviceman , GM’s in-house magazine publication for its dealer service centers. Get the latest news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by & subscribing to our newsletter. See you next time.

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Volt and Ampera win eco-prize

Green Cars News

The Chevrolet Volt has been named Eco Car of the Year by Diesel Car magazine. The range-extended model won the prize along with sister-model, the Vauxhall Ampera. Despite using petrol generators, the models beat the diesel hybrid Citroen DS5 into second place for the prize.

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Electric cars doomed? Market outperforms early hybrid sales

Green Cars News

And yet new research by Scientific American shows that electric car sales are actually performing better than hybrids did were when they were first introduced. In producing a graph, the US magazine shows the relative sales of [.].

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Mainstream media catches green car bug

Green Cars News

The latest example of green cars breaking into the mainstream media comes in the April 27 edition of Fortune Magazine , which features Warren Buffet on the cover in front of a BYD e6 electric car - the company that Buffet has invested in. Tags: Green cars Latest news media coverage. What have you made of media reports on green cars?

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Does the future of electric cars hinge on costs?

Green Cars News

According to reports, General Motors has splashed out around $1billion developing the Chevrolet Volt, while Chrysler hopes to invest around $448million in its electric vehicle programme. Cogan is far from a naysayer about the prospects of electric vehicles - he has been covering them since 1992 in his award winning magazine.