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

Creative Greenius

That’s me on January 16, 2017, with my brand new Chevy Bolt EV Premier edition in my garage at home. Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. Installing the 5.2

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Electric Car Buyer’s Guide: 7 Steps to Find The Best EV for Your Life

EV Life

Most car sites are built for gas vehicles, so you have to do countless hours of blog research. For example, I grew up in a “Toyota family” and Toyota only has one electric vehicle available today: The Prius Prime. If you need a faster home charge, consider installing a Level 2 charger. Level 2 Chargers. Know your range.

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How One Bad Manny Can P**s Away Your Brand

Creative Greenius

And now I’m telling the story here on my blog and sharing it on LinkedIn. When we bought our first electric car in January of 2013, the Toyota Rav4 EV with the Tesla battery and powertrain, we followed Toyota’s advice on the right home charger to buy. At this point, 104 people have watched it.

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Study: Collision Avoidance Technology Continues to Struggle

The Truth About Cars

The crash data used were police-reported crashes during 2017-21 in 18 U.S. Federal regulators constantly harp on Tesla’s Autopilot and somehow manage to ignore nearly identical systems installed by other manufacturers. There’s a lot of pressure to mandate specific advanced driving aids in the United States.

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Price Parity is Not the Key to EV Adoption in the US

EV Adoption

BMW, Mercedes, and Volkswagen have all not shipped certain electric models to the US and Toyota is shipping the majority of their RAV4 Prime PHEVs to Europe and Asia. In my very first article for this site and blog back in January 2017 , I created a framework of factors that were critical for EVAdoption in the US (chart below).

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment. Learn more about simulation apps and find this and other case studies at comsol.com/blog/apps. That circuit cost me about 400 bucks to have put in; it's in a garage, so they didn't need to go behind sheetrock.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

There are also, incidentally, income tax credits at the federal and state levels for installation of EV charging equipment. Learn more about simulation apps and find this and other case studies at comsol.com/blog/apps. That circuit cost me about 400 bucks to have put in; it's in a garage, so they didn't need to go behind sheetrock.