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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

After taking solar installation classes and volunteering with GRID Alternatives for several years and learning to install racking systems, PV modules and inverters, and how to wire them up – including bending conduit – in 2015 I installed a solar PV system on my own roof with a crew of GRID experts. Installing the 5.2

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Report: Sumitomo to begin selling fuel cells for commercial vehicles with US Hybrid

Green Car Congress

and a 30-year veteran of the electric, hybrid, and fuel cell industries including design and development of General Motors’ EV1 power-train development at Hughes Aircraft Company. Abas Goodarzi, Ph.D, The economic assessment will be facilitated using data collected and submitted to NREL quarterly.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech. The ZeroAvia technology gives 4 times the range of a similar battery-powered electric plane,” said Pohorsky. Lobbying EV1 style Pohorsky leased his first EV, a GM EV1 , in 1999. Tesla licensed the technology.”

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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"

Plugs and Cars

Perhaps Lutz's mistaken impressions about the EV1 and electric cars color his understanding of what NiMH can achieve. (Or Or perhaps GM's disinformation campaign about the successes of the EV1 and its NiMH batteries is still in force.) Could Lutz not know the range of an EV1? It's time to make a paradigm shift."

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Patent awarded for electric vehicle energy data management

Green Cars News

The technology is applicable to battery packs, chargers and battery powered electric vehicles and can be linked to the electric utility network and managed by a “smart grid&# controller. The information it gathers can also be used by the utilities for reporting and analysis.

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First week with a Tesla

Revenge of the Electric Car

The car is lightning fast — an instant throwback to the purr of the EV1 electric car — only this time there is almost universal agreement that the car is damn sexy. And early results suggest a range of 175 to 200 miles, although I’ve never gotten close to running out of power. Case in point?

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

Nissan appears intent on opening up a market for mid-price range electric cars within two years. GM waxed hot and cold on the EV1. million FedEx will get to replace grid-connected zero emission battery forklifts with fuel cell forklifts. I write a column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents.

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