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General Motors emphasizing faster electric vehicle launches after positive 2021 earnings

Teslarati

General Motors ( NYSE: GM ) is gearing up for a major shift in 2022 thanks to its evolving electric vehicle program, planning for record profit levels that could surge the company into a more well-rounded placement in an increasingly competitive sector. percent, and revenue of over $127 billion, a $4.5 billion increase from 2020. .”

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You’re outta here! Chevrolet Silverado EV won’t be coming to Australia

EV Central

But the Silverado EV did look like a potential future local candidate as EV utes start rolling into production. And tow them very long distances, where diesel fuel pumps are far more ubiquitous (and quicker filling) than electric charge points. Then there’s the cost of converting it to right-hand-drive for our market.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

In fact, we reckon there are almost 20 load-haulers either confirmed or said to be on the way to production. Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. Let’s check out the list. Will it come to Australia?

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

Cars That Think

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 cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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What’s the State of Hydrogen Vehicles in 2022?

Clean Fleet Report

Many people credit General Motors with the first hydrogen-powered vehicle in 1966, which looks like a solid-color version of Fred’s Mystery Machine. Other companies, led by Toyota and Honda, focused on fuel cell vehicles that converted hydrogen to electricity on board so were essentially electric vehicles.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

substantial increase in production of fuel per acre of planted. Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. biomass production. The team will.

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