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InsideEVs Exclusive Interview with General Motors EV1 Marketing Director John Dabels - Part 2

InsideEVs

1996 GM EV1 Meets 2011 Chevrolet Volt - What Could Have Been In-Between? Part 2 Of InsideEV's Interview with GM EV1 Marketing Director John Dabels continues. Editor's Note: If you missed part one on the behind-the-scenes 411 on General Motor's EV1 project, you can check it out here.

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The first Volt from GM was also a plug-in hybrid, but it was built in 1980

Green Car Reports

Chevrolet's Volt wasn't the original, or even the first Volt from GM. It built the Silver Volt, a plug-in hybrid based on a contemporary Buick station wagon—16 years before the GM EV1. Electric Auto Corporation receives that distinction for their car built in 1980, at the height of America's second gas crisis.

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GM’s assembly line delivers bouncing baby Volt

Revenge of the Electric Car

Since GM will be one of the first to the EV market with its Volt in 2011, we came to film them being put together through the multiple stages of the car manufacturing process. And accompanied by quite a few of the Volt’s siblings in all colors. How great to see a new Volt coming off the line after 6 Cadillac SRXs.

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Chevy Volt Electric Car, Age 1: Can It Survive Toddler Years?

Green Car Reports

One year ago today, the very first 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car was delivered to a retail buyer, in Denville, New Jersey. 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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2011 Chevrolet Volt

Green Car Reports

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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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

EV1 started it off Martinson, who was a satisfied Porsche owner in the early 00s, was on a flight from New York to Phoenix when he found himself sitting next to the CEO of Arizona’s largest utility company. “His Martinson’s GM EV1. This did not stop the CEO from offering Martinson a chance to drive one of the utility’s GM EV1 ’s. “He

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GM Hosting Webchat with Chelsea Sexton 29 April at 2 pm EDT

Green Car Congress

EDT to discuss the Chevy Volt, Who Killed the Electric Car? 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.

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