Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 28, 2009

More details in the Detroit Free Press article: Panels may brighten job market. In another bit of coincidence, Stempel headed GM’s EV1 electric car program in the early 1990s. ’ – is out of retirement and working with former business partner (and ex-GM head) Bob Stempel to develop solar panels. by Carol Cain.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 12, 2009

Boyer’s article (April 27, 2009). However, by the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed. ’ Read the full letter here : RE: THE ROAD AHEAD. A letter in response to Peter J. MAY 18, 2009.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 12, 2009

Boyer’s article (April 27, 2009) MAY 18, 2009 Peter J. However, by the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed. Tom Hanks' letter to the editor of the New Yorker about his electric car, a Toyota RAV4 EV.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

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). The C d values in the article are the official values as stated by the manufacturers.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Read Brian Howey's entire article here , but below is the last comment that sort of sums things up. I also hope for his next column he finds out some more about the exciting things going on with Plugin-hybrids, like the Chevrolet Volt and other pure EV's being announced and driven currently. Now, watch Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. The vehicle inspired California’s ZEV mandate, instituted in 1990.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

Lutz responds to the sense that GM might be pulling back from its commitment to the Volt that resulted from Sharon Terlep's Detroit News article a month or so ago. (My Perhaps Lutz's mistaken impressions about the EV1 and electric cars color his understanding of what NiMH can achieve. (Or Could Lutz not know the range of an EV1?

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 14, 2007

A number of articles about "green cars" worth perusing in Saturday's New York Times Automotive section. Usually devoted to crass boosterism of America's largest manufacturing industry, these articles still contain a lot of that. The meme of the ugly green car gets its own article ( Once Frumpy, Green Cars Start Showing Some Flash ).

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 25, 2010

Second, and the point on which the article devotes most attention, is whether Nissan is "cutting corners" by forgoing an active thermal management (HVAC) system for the batteries. They reverted to the T-shaped tunnel configuration for the battery used in the EV1. Big surprise, your actual mileage may vary. Buyer beware!

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. At the end of this article, Prof. Here is the full text of the entire article in case the link goes bad: [link]. by: Michael Kanellos. But it does have experience on its side.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

However, as the article points out, it feels like a trip down a well-traveled green road to nowhere. Regardless, GM ought to be producing the Volt now with the best available batteries, a PHEV-version of the NiMH in every hybrid on the road and which took the EV1 140 miles between charges. GM continues to spread the gospel of the Volt.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

And now Rick Waggoner of GM, creator and killer of the EV1, has again breached the industry taboo on connecting to the cleaner, cheaper, ubiquitous electric grid. Sources: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901343.html Irony abounds. Roland: When will that long-promised plug-in study appear?

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its dive into the financial doldrums was short-lived however, and on July 10, 2009, the company bounced back with the formation of a new, downsized GM (see article ). Critics will point to the fact that GM missed the boat with the ill-fated EV1, which was produced from 1996 to 1999. Faye Sunderland.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

WEBSTER • FREE PRESS AUTOMOTIVE EDITOR• April 21, 2009 Print this page E-mail this article Share this article Del.icio.us Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. See instructions for fixing the problem. WEBSTER A 100 m.p.g.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Here is the full text of the article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. In fact, some of the engineers working in Indiana worked on General Motors EV1, which is the subject of our first film,&# said Paine. Director Chris Paine was in Indianapolis this week to film for ‘Revenge.’ for electric car doc. Filmmaker in Ind.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

Along with Tedd Abramson’s Zero Truck in San Diego and Smith Trucks in London, we now have EVI (I keep wanting to write that as EV1:~). Read more about it in the article: EVI Lauches Electric Delivery and Work-Truck Sales in U.S. Here’s the full text of the entire article in case the link goes bad: [link].

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

In Europe, the likes of the Yaris and the iQ have kept average fuel consumption levels low, while Toyota is working on several new concepts such as the FT-EV (see article ) which has a claimed range of 50miles per charge. The company has enjoyed a 73 per cent increase in hybrid sales this year (see article ). Faye Sunderland.

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Teslarati

JULY 19, 2022

According to the article, GM will build the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV at a plant in Ramos Arizpe and that it will be ready to be sold in Mexico by the end of 2023. If this wasn’t the case, GM wouldn’t have crushed all of its EV1 vehicles. Recently, the automaker unveiled the Chevy Blazer which will be available by Fall 2023.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Even this article keeps showing the old futuristic version model which GM said can’t be done. April 17, 2009 3:14 pm Link Goodbye GM is right, they h ad an electric car called the EV1 what happened to it? They are evidently conspiring with the oil companies otherwise why else would they destroy the EV1s. I miss my EV1.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

We were successful with this before – remember the EV1?) COMMENTS See what other people think about this article or leave your comments. ” Finally, within the next two to five, years we will see the re-emergence of pure electric vehicles. (We

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

» Transportation | March 28, 2009 | by EV World The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles By Noel Adams Every so often I read articles, like the ones recently about a breakthrough from researchers at MIT, which will allow batteries to charge quickly, in this case, in 2 seconds.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Peter Roach, Birmingham, UK Nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries powered the late GM EV1 and still power hundreds of Toyota RAV4 EVs, some over 100,000 miles. Why does everybody state Tesla as US, When this is UK engineering from Norfolk in Great Britian? Is it becuase US market prefers a "home" product?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Posted by: J-Bob | Apr 13, 2009 4:48:10 PM "Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Posted by: canderson | Apr 13, 2009 5:02:50 PM The EV1 gave drivers 80 miles on a charge. Thats right.

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