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At Home with Bob Lutz

Revenge of the Electric Car

Since we only had two days in Detroit, we weren’t able to do much more sightseeing, but we did meet Bishop Ellis, who heads Greater Grace Temple and famously held a “bailout” service for the auto industry in his mega-church with SUVs at the altar. Although our crew are mostly heathens, I think that we were all moved by Ellis’s words.

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8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

Green Car Congress

The partner states are California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. Together they represent about a quarter of the nation’s new car sales. The governors of the 8 states began this latest collaboration with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 24 October 2013.

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GM, Segway to Make Vehicle - WSJ.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Order a reprint of this article now APRIL 7, 2009 GM, Segway to Make Vehicle Article Video Comments more in Auto Industry News » Email Printer Friendly Share: Yahoo Buzz facebook MySpace LinkedIn Digg del.icio.us GM has slashed product-development programs, advertising and spending on auto-show events.

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Perspective: My Participation in Project Driveway

Green Car Congress

The Project Driveway community is an incredibly diverse cross-section of drivers from the metro areas of DC, New York, and LA/Orange County. In addition to talking about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and other innovations in the auto industry, we communicate about everything from our pets and kids, to where we’re going on vacation.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

With the combination of requiring all new light-duty vehicles sold in New York State be zero-emission by 2035, investments in electric vehicles charging stations , and state and federal EV rebates, “ you’re going to see that you have no more excuses ” for not buying an EV, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia The XHT is a new generation of plug-in hybrid drive train ready to multiply the gas mileage of any SUV or any standard sedan." ( Company PressRelease ) BYD Auto top 2/3/08 BYD Auto Co., Its not high on our list," she said. (

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