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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. Let me tell you about it.

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Personal: Chevy Volt—Still Electric After All These Years

Clean Fleet Report

I love several things about the Volt that tipped my decision to buy out the lease and keep on driving—mostly on electricity: The Lectron charger has style and speed. Electric-only range of the Volt has not only not diminished , but I’m regularly see 60-mile estimated ranges after a charge. Road Test: 2017 Chevrolet Volt.

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IHS Markit: vehicle miles traveled to increase 65% in key markets by 2040, while vehicle sales slow

Green Car Congress

In a new study, IHS Markit forecasts that vehicle miles traveled (VMT) will by 2040 grow to an all-time high of around 11 billion miles per year (a 65% increase since 2017) in China, Europe, India and the United States—the key markets examined for the study—and will keep growing. IHS Markit, “Reinventing the Wheel.”

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Do You Believe Solid-State Batteries Are Really Right Around the Corner?

The Truth About Cars

Most applications have been limited to personal medical devices and the occasional electronic gizmo reserved for the kind of people who buy five-figure designer watches. According to Automotive News , the industry has collectively been targeting 15 minutes or less for batteries with about 300 miles of range in terms of recharge speeds.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car. My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri. In 2013, he installed lithium batteries, and in 2017, he replaced the stalled-out DC motor with an AC version.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

The far higher volumes of carbon dioxide per mile from heavy trucks make them an obvious target for zero-emission powertrains. Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. That’s about to change.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Can they throw it 10 miles?

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