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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. However, automakers continue to encounter technical hurdles in their quest to achieve reliable self-driving personal vehicles. —Kristin Kolodge.

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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. Moving to an all-electric future brings great challenges and equally great opportunities.

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