Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

Americans' opinions of the automobile industry have posted a 15-point positive increase after reaching an all-time low last year, and now tilt more positive than negative for the first time in three years, according to a new Gallup poll. Positive views of the banking industry remain depressed. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

General Motors compounded their financial woes by destroying the EV1 and continued to work with the oil companies to gouge the public. “ documented the EV1 Vigil (Click here to watch segment 4 and segment 9 ). Holden demanded the EV1’s immediate re-introduction before, or in exchange for, any Government bailout of GM.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

A new report released by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ( UMTRI ) analyzes critical choices faced by automakers and finds that broad, deep, fast change is necessary for success in the context of the worst financial crisis in the history of the domestic automobile industry. Rob Kleinbaum. Fuel Economy.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. This is unusual. GM Press Release ).

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