Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Another day, another announcement in the series of carefully timed press releases on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car. In this case, it's the news that GM's investment in the Detroit-Hamtramck plant where the Volt will be built totals $336 million.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The first mainstream electric cars to hit US shores in nearly a century (don’t despair GM EV1 fans, we said ‘mainstream’) have arrived in the form of the Nissan LEAF and the Chevrolet Volt. Tags: Electric cars The Green Piece electric car leaf U.S.A The Green Piece Column.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 28, 2010

In 2005 we were editing Who Killed the Electric Car? and trying to put together the pieces behind the ridiculous decision by car makers to terminate their advanced electric car programs. Or better yet the Cadillac SRXs will be electric too. Tags: Film News Production Diary Production News.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Stan Ovshinsky — one of the stars of ‘Who Killed the Electric Car ?’ In another bit of coincidence, Stempel headed GM’s EV1 electric car program in the early 1990s. He started a new company, Ovshinsky Innovations LLC. Tags: Production News Bob Stempel Stan Ovshinsky.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

It’s been five years since my last silver all electric sports car, a GM EV1, was infamously destroyed. But this week takes me right back to car heaven. America’s first ground-up design pure electric sportscar since the EV1 arrives again. I am very very lucky!

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

Jil McIntosh, Canada “An exceptionally noble, spacious, versatile, multi-purpose electric car. I tested the car in a sub-25-degree frost and I was happy that the EV9 behaved in cold winter weather like a normal luxury car: it warmed up quickly, the mileage was not affected much by minus degrees.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Iceland is in the process of transforming its transportation and energy practices into promoting electric cars for its roads, as well as geothermal energy for power generation. Storytelling is definitely a filmmaker’s business, and telling the story of the crushing of EV1s in 2006′s Who Killed the Electric Car?

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 4, 2010

When long-time EV advocate and former GM EV1 salesperson Chelsea Sexton talked to us a few weeks ago and told us she had some exciting news, we knew something fun was about to happen. Did she have news about the up-coming sequel to Chris Payne’s docudrama Who Killed The Electric Car?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Read about her cautious optimism for GM’s new electric car in her recent blog post: “I first learned of the Chevrolet Volt while standing on a Minneapolis street corner on June 23, 2006. Tags: Collaborators Film News Guest Bloggers Test Fleets test drives. …read the rest of her blog post here.

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Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2009

According to Ron Cogan, founder and editor of the Green Car Journal , the Obama administration is betting heavily on technology and that electric cars are not an exclusive answer to future transportation challenges and consumers will not be willing to buy them at all costs.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 25, 2022

I remember taking my mom to Ridge Winer y in her EV1 oh so long ago. Since I’m an idiot who doesn’t read manuals, I hadn’t told the nav system to only take me to an Electrify America charger where I can just plug and charge due to the free charging that came with my car. But I could squeeze my car in between them and hook up.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 18, 2010

It's official, the Cadillac Converj is to be the second extended-range electric vehicle after the Volt. I may be most interested affordable electric cars, but this makes sense to me. I only wish GM had the smarts back in the day to have rebranded the EV1 as a Caddy and continued limited run production.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 4, 2008

We knew we were being pulled into GM’s PR machine, but we wanted to hear their side of the story and accept their offer - If GM was once again committed to the electric car, we’d be there to cover it. Or was GM really committing itself to a future with electric vehicles only 5 years after destroying its last electric cars.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

The advanced technology vehicle would have an extended driving range on battery power and would also have a diesel or gasoline engine that could power the car when the battery was low, the Detroit News said, citing unnamed GM officials. This year, it has also drawn sharp criticism for its decision to kill its EV1 electric car program.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Here is the comprehensive list of every new EV due in the next few years. READ MORE: Every electric ute and pick-up coming soon! READ MORE: Every new electric car coming to Australia in 2022.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

Lutz responds to the sense that GM might be pulling back from its commitment to the Volt that resulted from Sharon Terlep's Detroit News article a month or so ago. (My If you've got hundreds of millions of trouble-free NiMH miles in hybrids and electric cars, why bet the bank on relatively untested if promising lithium?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 1, 2009

Dubbed the “Mini E,&# these fully-electric cars are just weeks from being deployed on the streets of Southern Californai, New York, and New Jersey. Wally was involved in the design of the Impact/EV1 while at Aerovironment, along with Alec Brooks and the incomparable Allan Cocconi (the “AC&# of AC Propulsion).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

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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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

“Your car is missing plates,&# the officer said. “This is the electric car?&#. And with that he burst into a rave about the car to his fellow officers. When I returned to the car an hour later, a crowd of people had gathered around. Those cars are just as expensive and far far more polluting.

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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.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 5, 2008

After an off-camera briefing about all their alt energy car efforts, we took a high speed run in the Volt “mule&# vehicle. It was as nearly as quick as their EV1 and every bit as smooth. It all came back to live in Detroit where Bob Lutz drove the new Chevy Volt from under the TV screens onto the stage.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

But there it is in a Detroit News Autos Insider piece today. Regardless, GM ought to be producing the Volt now with the best available batteries, a PHEV-version of the NiMH in every hybrid on the road and which took the EV1 140 miles between charges. Laptops didn't wait for Lithium, and neither should cars.

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Green Cars News

MAY 18, 2009

He wrote a letter to the New Yorker in a bid to set the record straight on the electric cars he has owned over the years. The original piece by Peter J Boyer assumed that Hanks had at one time owned the EV1 briefly touted by GM. But not mine. I have the pink slip. Very green indeed Mr Hanks. and let us know.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 10, 2009

The technology behind the company’s electric vehicle charging solutions actually emerged from AeroVironment’s contributions to the GM Impact, the concept car for General Motors’ EV1. Tags: Green cars Latest news AeroVironment battery packs chargers Electric cars GM EV-1 GM Impact.

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Green Cars News

JULY 20, 2009

It is exploring scaling up the concept for use with its electric car. With traditional magnetic induction, conductive coils are used to transmit power wirelessly over very short distances - the coils must be very close together although they do not make direct electrical contact.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The company has already shown its ability to produce segment leading vehicles and in the Chevrolet Volt it may offer the car that is most likely to bridge the public from traditional petrol/diesel powered powertrains to electric cars. Tags: Chevrolet Electric cars The Green Piece general motors GM green piece.

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EV Central

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Kia EV9 will hit Australian dealerships by October as the new hero in the brand’s expanding electric car stables. The new EV9 will share its 800-volt electrical E-GMP architecture with the EV6 (and others such as the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Genesis GV60 ) that has helped reshape perceptions of the Kia brand.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. . and Chrysler. .’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Other editions: Mobile | News Feeds | E-Newsletters | Electronic Edition Find it: Jobs | Cars | Real Estate | Apartments | Shopping | Classifieds Sponsored by: Your browsers security settings are preventing some features from appearing. will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 21, 2021

The first step toward Cadillac’s electric future gets a price tag. It’s been 25 years since GM sparked the idea of the modern electric car with the EV1. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq electric.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 27, 2009

I eventually came to believe they mean it, but I haven’t been sure that they really “get it” when it comes to what people love about electric cars- worrisome when they’re staking the future of the company on another one. Tags: Film News Guest Bloggers International Projects test drives GM Chevy Volt.

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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. How impressive is AC Propulsion electric drive genius?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. We were successful with this before – remember the EV1?)

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Nissan: Until recently Nissan’s only contribution to the green car explosion was the Altima Hybrid, produced in collaboration with Toyota. However, Nissan has since embraced the need to drive down emissions and placed its focus firmly on electric cars.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

US President Joe Biden recently visited General Motors’ Factory Zero in Detroit, a site that the veteran automaker notes would be the centerpiece of a massive electric vehicle revolution. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips. Watch US President Biden’s address at GM’s Factory Zero in the video below.

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