Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 13, 2009

She was in town for a little business and a little fun—test driving the next Volt mule. If Chelsea’s ear-to-ear grin was anything to go by, the Volt seemed to be progressing fine. We took Chelsea on a ride on the People Mover to get her reaction to the downsizing of the company she once belonged to and her test drive of the Volt.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

to 4 volts. The company originally employed the battery in its Handycam , and the lithium-ion technology soon made its way into billions of mobile phones and laptop computers. Twenty-five years later, the battery is gaining momentum in the auto industry as a means of reducing the cost of electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

Within his talk about the need for a US energy policy at the IHS CERAWeek 2013 energy conference in Houston, GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson outlined some highlights of the company’s fuel economy plan through the 2016 model year. A good rule of thumb is that a 10% reduction in curb weight will reduce fuel consumption by about 6.5%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

General Motors is working with communities such as San Francisco to develop a plan of action to establish the supporting technical and policy infrastructure required for broad commercialization of plug-in electric vehicles such as the upcoming Chevrolet Volt. GM described its approach at the Washington Auto Show. Earlier post.).

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And the small SUV PHEV is also the starting point for the company’s five-year ‘Zero to Zero’ plan. The brand, these days part of the multi-national auto-industry giant Stellantis, claims no-one else in the business will complete the transition so quickly. The snappy name neatly sums up the objective.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 6, 2023

The Austin-based company has been launching new products and making strategic acquisitions to build complete solution-level capabilities for EV battery testing and validation, led by its automotive customers who don’t have time to build up the technology themselves. But then that flipped.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

billion invested in 180 green-technology companies. Interest in electric cars is surging: •Nearly 52,000 people were wait-listed as of mid-April for General Motors’ electric model, the Volt, due in November. Bob Lutz, the outgoing vice chairman of GM, has said the company will produce about 8,000 Chevy Volts in 2011.

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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. Andy Frank makes the observation that parallel hybrids (Toyota Prius) are cheaper than series hybrids (Chevy Volt). At the end of this article, Prof. I’m still not convinced.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2009

Other product attributes like reliability and safety, strongly influence consumer perceptions, as do employee enthusiasm and the company’s impact on the economy. Other product attributes like reliability and safety, strongly influence consumer perceptions, as do employee enthusiasm and the company’s impact on the economy.”

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Plug In Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2007

GS Yuasa Corporation , Mitsubishi Corporation, and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation announced that, effective December 12, they have formed the joint venture company " Lithium Energy Japan " to produce large capacity and high performance lithium-ion batteries. Its first order of business is getting the Chevrolet Volt on the road by 2010.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Most vehicle electrical systems were all based on 12 volts, and used capacitors rated for 30 V or 50 V test requirements. So, business has begun to swing over to new entrants in the auto industry. That’s expressed in terms of volts per micron. Let’s take safety caps for an example.

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Charged EVs

JULY 29, 2021

It’s the first of 23 new battery-electric vehicles the company plans to launch by 2025, under three brands, and they’re targeting total global sales of a million EVs by the end of that year. 800-volt battery. It’s the technical details of the E-GMP platform that underscore the company’s determination to build fully capable EVs.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

So will his billions rejuvenate the American auto industry and put it back on top of the motoring world as it enters a new era? I want the cars of the future and the technologies that power them to be built right here,” the President said. Who will benefit? America’s top car manufacturers have reaped the rewards too.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In an interview with the publication, Musk noted that Tesla faced a lot of doubts when it started, with critics calling the company a fraud and its leader a fool. But when Tesla gained ground and started taking meaningful market share from the world’s renowned car companies, automakers changed their tune. .

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Here we are four months later: GM is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy , and its turnaround plan — which gave the Chevy Volt a central role – has gotten a less-than-rave review from the Obama administration. He called for steppe… Will Solar Save Chip Companies? phones and mobile devices.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. and Chrysler.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. FutureFuel Chemical Company.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Alternative-fuel cars were some of the hottest items on display at the Shanghai auto show from homegrown companies like Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., The battery-powered cars that Chinese companies are showing are intended to be much less expensive than those planned by big foreign companies. Gasgoo.com | ?? |

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric Cars and The Volt Can Transform America and the Auto Industry TODAY!!! By Seth Leitman Tue, Jan 6, 2009 Electrifying Times gave me the opportunity to attend a General Motors press event showing off the Volt back in late 2008 after just releasing the book Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, 2nd Edition.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

Those wishing to participate will be able to tie into the multi-site webchat from Green Car Congress tomorrow, as well as directly on GM’s FastLane Blog , the EV World site, or the GM-Volt site. Ten million Chevrolet Volts (or equivalent) on the road would account for approximately 0.8% Startup companies operate chargers in the area.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind. On the face of it, this experiment would suggest that the all-electric car, which does have a greater electric range, contributed 400 more e-miles than the Volt.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The top selling brand has been caught flat-footed in the EV race and in 2023 we will see the arrival of the company’s first battery electric vehicle, the bZ4X. But I’m also curious to see how Toyota fights back in the EV space. Biggest EV surprise of 2022. The EV I’m most looking forward to in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The prototype that was developed specifically for the Rinspeed project was designed for a nominal voltage of 580 volts. The iChange is a symbol for the fundamental changes the auto industry undergoes worldwide. With the electric PTC air heater from Eberspächer catem the iChange is fit especially for short trips and city traffic.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. See Chevy Volt for latest.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The company launched last month at Green Motors in Berkeley, California. The same state agency that drove the electric car off a cliff is now poised to wreck a new Berkeley company that triples the gas mileage of a Toyota Prius. “Acting too soon will shut off innovation and will kill companies that are just getting started.&#.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think is also working closely with the Brussel based Eurelectric , the European union of electricity industry. The Norwegian company just last week met with Gov. The MiEV runs on a lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged in seven or so hours on a 240-volt line. Duh, heres our $40K volt, buy it please? before 2010.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD is an amazing company. Within a few years, BYD’s batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants ony and Sanyo. That track record—and that potential—is what persuaded Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, to buy 10% of BYD last fall for $230 million. Not so this time around.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Suffice to say, all of GM’s development programs including the Volt are threatened. For all of GM’s industrial successes and environmental failures, many elements of the American economy including the advertising-dependent entertainment industry — rise and fall with its fortunes. Cash Is Its Best Hope.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Mr. Agassi was an executive at SAP that lead the software company to being the enterprise software leader ahead of Oracle, IBM, and all others. He has interests in businesses in fuel cells, superconductors and carbon software , and his clients range from startups to major oil companies. 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The eyes of the green car world, so regularly focused on Asia, Germany and the US, have finally taken more than a passing glance at one of the most historic auto industries in the world – that of France. The i0n is described by the company as an ‘ideal solution’ for the challenges of urban mobility versus environmental protection.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Newly installed CEO Fritz Henderson argues that pioneering projects like the Volt typically lose money until the technology catches on. "The Volt is a case study. " In other words, General Motors is going to lose its shirt until the Volt establishes itself in the marketplace. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0

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