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Report: With EV1, GM sparked the era of the electric car but didn't follow through

Green Car Reports

With Earth Day approaching, it's worth remembering the first modern dedicated electric car from a major automaker—the General Motors EV1.

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Rare GM EV1 electric car survivor converted to a hybrid, parked outside

Green Car Reports

This rare General Motors EV1 has been hiding in plain sight, parked outside behind Howard University's school of engineering in Washington, D.C., The EV1 was leased to customers in California and a few other locations between. You never know where an interesting car might turn up.

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Revolutionizing the Roads: The GM EV1 and Pioneering Charging Technology

EV Solutions

In the late 1990s, a pioneering electric vehicle emerged on the automotive scene, rewriting the future of clean and sustainable transportation. General Motors innovated the EV market by showcasing their 1990 Impact Experimental, which heavily inspired the first mass-produced electric vehicle: The GM EV1.

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Audi E-Tron tows GM EV1 500 miles: Reality check about EV range

Green Car Reports

The Audi E-tron is one of a handful electric cars currently rated for towing. An E-tron towed a trailer containing a General Motors EV1—the first modern electric car—from Tulsa Tech in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the Fully Charged Live electric-car event at Circuit of the.

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GM EV1 exec leaves Faraday Future

Green Car Reports

And he was the chief engineer of General Motors' EV1, arguably the first mass-produced modern electric car. In the midst of the latest round of financial turmoil at the company, Faraday Future has lost a key executive, according to a report in the Verge. Peter Savagian was senior vice president at Faraday Future.

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Long before Tesla or the Leaf, this Nissan electric car claimed a 155-mile range

Green Car Reports

While we widely think of the General Motors EV1—or its preceding Impact concept car—as starting the era of the electric car. But there were others in that era, that followed a similar formula and might have potentially come to market earlier. One of them came from Nissan.

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Rare Surviving GM EV1 Waits For Savior At Missouri University

Green Car Reports

The late and much lamented GM EV1 electric car is by now a mythical creature. Designed, engineered, and offered for lease in California and a few other locations from 1998 to 2003, the two-seat EV1 was likely the most.'

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