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GM Working with Communities to Develop Roadmap For Plug-in Infrastructure

Green Car Congress

GM described its approach at the Washington Auto Show. A partial draft checklist of stakeholders and enablers to help guide cities in making their regions plug-in friendly suggested by GM includes: Draft Checklist for a Plug-in Ready City. GM will undertake similar efforts around the country in communities such as Washington, D.C.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor. But neither car, GM execs made clear, will appear for sale on a showroom floor for more that two years. I will pay nothing for my 300 mile road trip.)

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

has fully embraced EVs and, after years of teasing with snazzy concepts, the real hardware is for sale–and is selling well. Chevrolet Bolt/Bolt EUV – Waiting for more GM EVs. Beating Tesla to the market with the Bolt was quite a coup, particularly with a car as well-executed as this EV is, but GM has been slow with its follow up.

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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, which is expected to sell for $40,000 when it goes on sales in the U.S. GM plans to launch the Volt in China in 2011. Still, "the challenge here is consumers are extremely value-oriented," said Raymond Bierzynski, head of GM Asia-Pacific engineering operations. in late 2010. Prius hybrid.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Expected deposits in 2009 and first sales in CA in 2010. We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia

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National Low Carbon Fuel Standard study releases major Technical Analysis and Policy Design reports; providing a scientific basis for policy decisions

Green Car Congress

Including more fuels results in greater GHG reductions and would enable more flexibility in identifying low-cost mitigation options and increasing opportunities for regulated parties to buy LCFS credits from a greater pool of options, the policy report suggests. All of this helps achieve LCFS targets in the most cost-effective manner.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. operations are small - about 20 people work in a sales and marketing outpost in Elk Grove Village, Ill., near Motorola, and another 20 or so work in San Francisco, not far from Apple.

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