Green Car Reports

AUGUST 9, 2013

The late and much lamented GM EV1 electric car is by now a mythical creature. It''s been the subject of a much-discussed documentary, and is still cause for blind loathing of General Motors in some quarters.

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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. 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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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. Mr. Holden demanded the EV1’s immediate re-introduction before, or in exchange for, any Government bailout of GM. said Holden.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

At the same time Chevrolet announced their new Bolt EV with a 238 mile range and even though GM was the one who killed the EV1 electric car and General Motors was one of the worst run corporations on the planet, I decided to give the new government-rescued GM a chance. But I needed to see and feel the car for myself.

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Electric Cars Report

JUNE 23, 2023

Mazda Motor Corporation started mass production of the Mazda MX-30 e‑Skyactiv R-EV1 for the European market at its Ujina Plant No. 1 in Hiroshima. The MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV is Mazda’s first mass-production vehicle with a rotary engine in 11 years since the Mazda RX-8 was discontinued in June 2012.

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The legacy One of the unprecedented things that InsideEVs enjoys is an above average banter over the articles and reports found here. After our recent interview with John Dabels, three questions stood out. So, InsideEVs went back to John Dabels for more information on behalf of our readers. (If If you missed Part 1).or.

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Teslarati

JUNE 16, 2021

General Motors has increased its electric vehicle investment by 75%, from $20 billion to $35 billion through 2025, the company announced on Wednesday. The Detroit-based GM entered the EV sector with the EV1 in 1996, which used a 16.5-18.7 kWh lead-acid battery in its earliest versions.

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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

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The General Motors EV1 still exerts a strange fascination for electric-car fans and civilians alike. Fascination has only grown, as shown by reaction to the image of an EV1 in the. Its sleek, aerodynamic shape and pioneering all-electric drive (despite an initial range of only about 70 miles) make it an important vehicle in U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

Pete Savagian, who served in critical electric drive engineering roles at GM since the EV1, has left General Motors to become the VP Engineering at Faraday Future. In a posting on Linked In, Savagian said that he will lead Faraday Future’s engineering operations for powertrain, battery and related high voltage systems.

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If General Motors' EV1 had featured in the Disney Pixar animated film Cars, we can't imagine it would have been the happiest of characters. It might well have spent a little time complaining about its friends all being crushed back in 1999, and who could blame it?

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2019

Electric cars from 35 years later grabbed the public imagination after the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car" turned General Motors into a villain and its EV1 electric car into a celebrity. Last weekend, we featured an electric car from a forgotten era, the (very early) 1960s.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

and what she thinks has been learned from the whole GM EV1 experience. Sexton is the Founder of the non-profit Lightning Rod Foundation, and a former General Motors EV1 Specialist. GM is hosting a webchat with Chelsea Sexton tomorrow, 29 April, at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss the Chevy Volt, Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 26, 2022

1996 General Motors EV1. Electricar. Electricar GTP. Unknown hp. 70 mile range. Corbin Sparrow. Corbin Sparrow. 1996 Corbin Sparrow. 50 mile range. 100 mile range. Nissan Hypermini. Nissan Hypermini. 2001 Nissan Hypermini. 72 mile range. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 211 mile range. 1,000 hp.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 31, 2017

Among the Detroit Three automakers, General Motors has a quarter of a century of electric-car experience, from the legendary EV1 to the 238-mile Chevrolet Bolt EV. Ford launched hybrids in 2004, before any other maker, but its battery-electric efforts thus far have been strictly compliance cars.

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 29, 2010

If General Motors' EV1 had featured in the Disney Pixar animated film Cars, we can't imagine it would have been the happiest of characters. It might well have spent a little time complaining about its friends all being crushed back in 1999, and who could blame it?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

GM’s base FWD 2-mode system incorporates two electric motors, two planetary gear sets and a system of four hydraulically-applied wet-plate range clutches to deliver two continuously variable speed-ratio ranges (modes) and four forward fixed gear ratios. With this, there are two new electric-only modes: EV1 and EV2.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2020

Lucid Motors announced that it has achieved a new mark in aerodynamic efficiency for its luxury electric car, the Lucid Air. As quick reference comparisons, both the GM EV1 and Volkswagen’s XL1 had drag coefficients of approximately 0.19; the Mercedes-Benz A-Class comes in at approximately 0.22; the Tesla Model 3 at 0.23.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

The technology behind its electric vehicle charging solutions emerged after AeroVironment’s substantial contributions to the development of the GM Impact, the concept car for General Motors’ EV1.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Much earlier in the chapter’s history, member Otmar Ebenhoech, who would go on to create the Villa DC Motor Controller, made a strong impression on the DIY community using DC motors. He had all these charts and graphs showing the power going into the motor. Lobbying EV1 style Pohorsky leased his first EV, a GM EV1 , in 1999.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2015

General Motors confirmed yesterday that its upcoming 200-mile battery-electric car will be named the Chevrolet Bolt EV. Green Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Chevrolet Bolt Chevrolet Bolt EV EV1 Future Cars plug-in cars' Well, they did it. That''s Bolt-with-a-B, not Volt-with-a-V.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2011

The Volt was intended not only to be the first production plug-in electric car from General Motors--erasing memories of the ill-fated EV1--but to serve as a technology halo car for the just-bailed-out.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Their names will range from EV1 to EV9 and all will be crossover SUVs including the existing EV6. Hyundai’s E-GMP takes advantage of electric motors’ generally smaller size to create a platform with a RWD base configuration. Kia in 2020 had unveiled its seven dedicated BEV models by 2027.

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Just as the excitement is growing over the first dealer deliveries of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and 2011 Nissan Leaf, eagle-eyed EV enthusiasts have spotted General Motor’s previous electric car on Google’s Street View.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

Prior to casting their votes, the 75 motoring journalists hailing from 52 nations diligently tested numerous car models, thoroughly evaluating every aspect. The internal space allows up to seven occupants and the most powerful version with two electric motors is capable of producing up to 384hp with impressive performance.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2013

Among his other career achievements are launching the lithium battery business for Delphi Electronics, including the Segway battery pack; project lead for production and battery pack design of GM’s EV1 electric car; and VP of Transportation at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI).

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 14, 2007

Other than one stupid paragraph about the EV1 and RAV4 EV that repeats the conventional received wisdom on why we have no plug-in choices - "GM EV1 and the electric Toyota RAV4 struck mainstream customers as geeky, slow and impractical" (really? Mainstream customers knew about the EV1 and RAV4 EV? The EV1 was slow?

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 7, 2009

General Motors says that sum brings its total invested in Michigan on. 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 Car Reports

JULY 22, 2011

Years from now, the world might just view the 2011 Chevrolet Volt as the car that showed General Motors was worth saving. The Volt is GM’s first electric car since the infamous EV1 two-seater, and this time, the company is building and selling it in volume—in every U.S. state by the end of 2011.

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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. America’s first ground-up design pure electric sportscar since the EV1 arrives again. Tags: Production Diary Production News Tesla Motors Tesla Roadster. But this week takes me right back to car heaven.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2022

Even before the introduction of the General Motors EV1 in 1996, it was clear that if we’re ever going to replace cars powered by fossil fuels with electric vehicles, we’ll need batteries that take and deliver charge reliably in both hot and cold climates. Lakshay Khurana and Daniel Keppeler. Weather-beating Battery.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2016

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. The company is privately held and was founded in Torrance, California by Dr. Abas Goodarzi, Ph.D,

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Think the late, lamented EV1 from General Motors, subject of the controversial documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? But for more than 4,000 people who've put down deposits on the 2011 Aptera 2e, the EV1 just seems so. To green-car fans, the idea of an ultra-aerodynamic electric two-seater sounds pretty familiar, right?

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 6, 2008

General Motors might not be able to hit its target to have its breakthrough electric-powered car the Chevrolet Volt in production by 2010. Hell, they could simply sell the few EV1s they still have running around. CNNMoney.com reports on an online chat with GM CEO Rick Waggoner.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I find it really odd that the Biden administration is not only ignoring Tesla and its contributions to the electric vehicle market but is outright lying to the American people about General Motors (GM) being the leader of the industry. I’ve written about this already, but other things have happened since then. It seems as […].

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. The pair made major contributions to the propulsion system for the Impact , a battery-powered concept car that AeroVironment built under contract for General Motors.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Why then, would GM start its oh-so-serious push into modern electric vehicles with the EV version of the truck which — seemingly by fate — ramped its production just as GM was killing off the EV1 program?

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