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Opel Ampera, GM's Other Extended-Range EV, In Pre-Production

Green Car Reports

We write a lot about the 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle here. It's a radical new car, GM's first electric car since the late EV1, and it'll be in dealerships in just six months. Well, basically, it's a Chevy Volt. But GM has another electric car coming next year as well.

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Charging infrastructure anecdote from AABC

Green Car Congress

During his presentation on challenges for battery development for an extended range electric vehicle to the AABC event in Pasadena this past week, Roland Matthé, GM’s technical manager for the Voltec Battery System, as an aside touched on another challenge: finding an appropriate plug.

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2011 Chevy Volt Investment: How Does This Differ From the EV1?

Green Car Reports

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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Jon Bereisa to Join Aker Wade Board of Advisors with Focus on Fast Charging

Green Car Congress

Bereisa led GM’s EV1 project as chief engineer. He was responsible for the technology development and production design of the EV1 electric traction system, power inverter, battery pack and charger. Stempel, who oversaw the introduction of the EV1 when Chairman and CEO of GM, is a past EDTA Hall of Fame inductee.).

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More EVs, Faster Charging

Plugs and Cars

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

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