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GM CEO shares insights on Elon Musk and Tesla NACS partnership

Teslarati

General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra recently shared some insights on the automaker’s decision to partner with Tesla for its vehicles’ rapid charging system. “I think what was important there is that General Motors customers had access to about 13,000 chargers in the US. We saw this as an opportunity for General Motors.

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Jim Wangers, the Godfather of the GTO, useless at 96

Baua Electric

In reality, because of Chevrolet’s good fortune and Basic Motors proudly owning part {the marketplace}, GM doubled indisposed at the 1957 Car Producers Affiliation racing cancel in 1963 and were given out of racing with the intention to accumulation the Feds at bay with imaginable monopolistic accusations.

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GM, Honda to collaborate on next-generation fuel cell technologies; targeting commercial feasibility in 2020 time frame

Green Car Congress

In New York, General Motors and Honda announced a long-term, definitive master agreement to co-develop next-generation fuel cell system and hydrogen storage technologies, aiming for the 2020 time frame. In January, Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company and Nissan Motor Co., —Takanobu Ito, president & CEO of Honda Motor Co.

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Plug-in Manufacturers Grow

Plug In Partners

H ere's the Mazda story thanks to Autocar: Mazda plans Volt rival Autocar August 28, 2008 Autocar has learned that Mazda engineers are hard at work trying to develop a rival to the Chevrolet Volt – a car which uses a petrol engine to charge a battery pack which powers the wheels via an electric motor.

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Criticism for Government green car buys

Green Cars News

For example, 2,933 vehicles have been ordered from Chrysler despite the fact that the manufacturer does not include any hybrids in its line-up with the exception of the Durango/Aspen line. Tags: Chrysler Green cars Latest news general motors Barack Obama Government Service Administration. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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EPA Proposes New Regulations for Renewable Fuel Standard to Implement Requirements of EISA; GHG Reduction and Indirect Land Use Change Effects Included

Green Car Congress

The EPA GHG lifecycle analysis combines a suite of peer-reviewed process models and peer-reviewed economic models of the domestic and international agricultural sectors to determine direct and significant indirect emissions, respectively (GREET, FASOM, FAPRI, Winrock, GTAP, CENTURY, DAYCENT, ASPEN-based models, MOVES and NEMS).

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