Green Car Reports
MAY 8, 2022
While we widely think of the General Motors EV1—or its preceding Impact concept car—as starting the era of the electric car. As recently discussed by Japanese Nostalgic Car (via Hemmings). One of them came from Nissan.
Green Car Reports
JUNE 8, 2020
The electric car wasn't invented by Tesla with its Roadster, or by GM with the EV1. While mass-production commitments from Tesla, Nissan, Volkswagen. It goes back more than a century, with a long list of hopefuls hindered from widespread production by a complicated but familiar set of factors.
Green Car Reports
MAY 5, 2019
If your historical knowledge of electric cars goes back to the first Tesla Roadster, the GM EV1 or, perhaps, one of the many intriguing manufacturer conversions from the 1980s or ‘90s, you have many decades of what-ifs to catch up on.
Clean Fleet Report
MARCH 26, 2022
Museum Exhibit Review: 107 Years of Electric Cars. With the recent technological advancements and increased adoption of electric cars, SUVs and trucks, it is lost on most people that electricity was an early popular propulsion system for cars. 1996 General Motors EV1. 2008 Tesla Roadster.
Electric Auto Association
DECEMBER 1, 2022
2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I
Creative Greenius
APRIL 25, 2021
I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car. Installing the 5.2
Revenge of the Electric Car
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
My brand new silver all-electric Tesla Roadster sportscar (#23) arrived by truck in Los Angeles yesterday. Shrouded in plastic and tucked into the back of a semi with three other Tesla’s, it waited to be rolled onto the streets of Los Angeles. But this week takes me right back to car heaven. It’s alive!
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