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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. The 2007 EV Parade in Santa Monica with State Senator Fran Pavley. It’s rare when consumer karma actually works out for any buyer of any product made today, but then again, your friendly neighborhood Greenius is not your usual consumer.

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TTAC's Best Cars of 2023

The Truth About Cars

2007 Subaru Impreza: Why is this car on my list? Honorable mentions: Toyota Supra manual, Toyota Prius, BMW 330i, Cadillac CT4 Blackwing, Kia EV6 GT, Chevrolet Trax Activ. However, the current model solved a lot of the problems I had with the model by adding power and giving it some personality. on his laptop.

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2011 edition of EPA Fuel Economy Trends report shows several advanced powertrain technologies making significant gains

Green Car Congress

The second change is that, for the first time, the preliminary data for MY 2011 include MDPVs (medium-duty personal vehicles). In MY 2010, the average vehicle power was 214 horsepower, an increase of 6 horsepower since MY 2009, but lower than in MY 2007-2008. For example, for MY 2010 data in the 2011 report, nearly 1.1

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

GaN-based technologies alone could lead to a savings of over 1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2041 in just the United States and India , according to an analysis of publicly available data by Transphorm, a GaN-device company I cofounded in 2007. The data came from the International Energy Agency, Statista, and other sources.

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