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GM Leads Funding Round in EnergyX for EV Production

Green Fleet Magazine

General Motors and EnergyX are collaborating to unlock the North American supply of lithium.

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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 some special model advertising in 1958 to celebrate General Motors’ 50th production year. far and away the most expensive production car in the US at the time.

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CAR report quantifies automotive’s position as a leading high-tech industry

Green Car Congress

Source: Booz & Company “Global Innovation”; Battelle R&D Magazine; Center for Automotive Research 2012. The industry is also rapidly increasing its use of advanced processes and materials, such as new digital engineering and nanotechnologies to improve the design and production of vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

undoubtedly going to be a backlog, where demand exceeds production for the. Despite a surge in interest, electric cars may remain niche products in the world’s two largest auto markets. Despite a surge in interest, electric cars may remain niche products in the world’s two largest auto markets. “There is.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

James Cortada The interesting thing about DASD [direct-access storage device] was IBM invented the disk drives in the mid-1950s and kept innovating that technology so fast that its product costs and what it could sell for remained very competitive for a very long time. It has to be for General Motors, Ford, and so on.

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Reva: A little company with big ambitions. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Despite being a pioneer in the electric car field, the firm saw its image tarnished particularly by safety concerns when a test by Top Gear Magazine, following Euro NCAP specifications, found that occupants could suffer “serious or life threatening” injuries in a 40mph crash.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and startups Tesla Motors Inc. customers $600 a month to lease.Honda hasn’t revealed its production price. Still, the company will respond to a push by theObama administration for carmakers to sell plug-ins, he said. “We Naturally, we’regoing to have to accommodate that too.”

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