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

Creative Greenius

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. I paid $47,000 in cash for that car as a #YearOfJoe gift to myself after a decade of environmental work and achievement.

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J.D. Power: Consumer sentiment on future mobility technologies lags far behind automakers plans

Green Car Congress

However, their predictions for self-driving vehicles available for consumer purchase has jumped out to 18 years; five years later than predicted in the 2019 Q4 study. Power studied consumer interest in electric vehicles when the GM EV1 was launching. These were also the top 3 barriers in 1997 when J.D.

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Tech: Aerodynamics Is the Key To EV Range

Clean Fleet Report

146 concept, presented in 2019, presents a nice example of what is possible. Vincent Keromnes, a leader of dynamic benchmarking at our partner A2MAC1 , took a Tesla Model S Plaid (they 3D scanned the whole car down to the last detail) and then covered the rear wheels (like on the Lightyear One—or GM’s original EV1).

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

GM, shifting focus to pure EVs, built the last Volt on February 19, 2019. For our discussion, Saturn dealers were the delivery and service point for GM’s aborted first electric car, the EV1. This summer, it will be joined by the Bolt EUV variant.

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Opinion: GM’s $1B EV investment in Mexico is not what America needs

Teslarati

In November 2019, the U.S. If this wasn’t the case, GM wouldn’t have crushed all of its EV1 vehicles. In fact, it took a viral petition that my friend, Gail Alfar, and I started to encourage President Biden to acknowledge Tesla’s leadership in the EV space. President Biden Claimed GM Was The EV Leader.

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