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GM Will Apply Plug-in Hybrid Technology To One of Its Remaining Four Core Brands, Delivery Still in 2011

Green Car Congress

Prototype Saturn Vue PHEV plugging in to a Coulomb Chargepoint ( earlier post ) in San Jose, CA. In a post on GM’s FastLane blog, Vice Chairman Tom Stephens said that the company will apply plug-in hybrid technology to one of the four core brands remaining after the restructuring: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC.

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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. Here's one of the announcements that came out of the conference : EPRI, GM, 34 Utilities Collaborate to Advance Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles PALO ALTO, Calif.

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Ford Anticipates 10-25% Of Its Global Fleet to Be Electrified by 2020

Green Car Congress

Ford anticipates that hybrids will represent about 70% of the 2020 numbers, with plug-in hybrids contributing 20-25% and battery-electric vehicles the remainder, she said. Ford’s approach with its plug-in hybrid is to use the parallel power split architecture of its standard hybrids. This takes an enormous amount of staying power.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose. Founding EVA chapter connects with entrepreneurial stars. So many of our members have been practicing engineers, not just tinkerers,” Freund continued. And that entrepreneurship persists here in the valley.

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California ARB receives VW’s 1st $200M, 30-month ZEV investment plan

Green Car Congress

This Consent Decree is intended to fully mitigate the calculated environmental harm done by VW’s 2.0L diesel cars. There are four elements of the Consent Decree, each described in a separate appendix. VW will implement these investments in four $200 million 30-month cycles. VW California ZEV Investment Plan: Cycle 1.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Vehicle-to-grid interface technology is also particularly well suited to Plug-in vehicles. Recharge a Car, Recharge the Grid, Recharge the Planet Google.org supports PHEV & V2G with [link] project. 2008.03.20 - New rechargeit.blogspot.com about PHEVs. 2008.03.20 - New rechargeit.blogspot.com about PHEVs.

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Road Test: Ford Mustang Mach-E GT Performance Edition

Clean Fleet Report

The Hottest Mach-E. When Clean Fleet Report first reported on the Ford Mustang Mach-E in March 2021 , we were impressed with its styling, range, and standard features, but what we were lusting for was to get behind the wheel of the Performance Edition GT version, which wasn’t available at the Mach-E launch. All you need to know. second range.

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