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Tesla’s Rebecca Tinucci makes it to TIME 100 Climate list for 2023

Teslarati

Tesla’s NACS saw a wave of adoption this year, with veteran automakers like Ford and General Motors (GM) announcing that they would be embracing the charging standard on their upcoming vehicles. This does not mean to say that TIME Magazine has a tendency to ignore Tesla executives, however.

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GM's 200-Mile Electric Car, Hydrogen Stations, Math Is Hard: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green Car Reports, we correct the math in Forbes magazine, GM says it wants to build a Tesla competitor, and Jewish holidays cause clean air. General Motors says it''s developing a $30,000 electric car with 200 miles of range; sounds like Tesla competition to us. All this and more on Green Car Reports. They didn''t say.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part I)

The Truth About Cars

General Motors held an early interest in automotive navigation systems, and its Research Laboratories division worked on its first in-car system back in 1966. & GM went as far as to publish ads for the system in magazines as late as September of 1967. Images: General Motors] Become a TTAC insider.

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Tesla’s camera-based driver monitoring system exists; pretending it doesn’t makes roads less safe

Teslarati

The magazine admitted that Tesla’s driver-assist system’s object detection and response is better than comparable systems, but Kelly Funkhouser, head of connected and automated vehicle testing for Consumer Reports , argued that it is this very reason why the magazine has safety concerns with Tesla’s cars. .

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XVIX)

The Truth About Cars

Since then, I discovered this April 1957 edition of The Cadillac Serviceman , GM’s in-house magazine publication for its dealer service centers. There was also a new turbine-type wheel cover, in place of the spoked wheel Brougham shared with other Eldorado models in 1957. See you next time.

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Does the future of electric cars hinge on costs?

Green Cars News

According to reports, General Motors has splashed out around $1billion developing the Chevrolet Volt, while Chrysler hopes to invest around $448million in its electric vehicle programme. Cogan is far from a naysayer about the prospects of electric vehicles - he has been covering them since 1992 in his award winning magazine.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Beijing and New york —. Interest in electric cars is surging: •Nearly 52,000 people were wait-listed as of mid-April for General Motors’ electric model, the Volt, due in November. By Jaeah Lee, Contributor. posted May 10, 2010 at 9:49 am EDT. One reason for automakers’ trepidation is technological.

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