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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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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. 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. This is a step that, so far, Tesla has not taken for its own Megacharger standard.

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Mitsubishi bringing 2018 Outlander PHEV to US in December

Green Car Congress

The 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) will arrive in dealerships in December 2017 with an MSRP of $34,595. The Outlander PHEV comes standard with Mitsubishi’s proprietary S-AWC. Outlander PHEV also comes standard with DC Fast Charging capability—the only Plug-in Hybrid in the market with it.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Will we have a universal standard for charging? It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. And do I understand that it's likely that that would set a de facto standard for all the non-Tesla world? John Voelcker There is already really a de facto standard.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Will we have a universal standard for charging? It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. And do I understand that it's likely that that would set a de facto standard for all the non-Tesla world? John Voelcker There is already really a de facto standard.