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Enterprise Rent-a-Car to offer Chevrolet Volt

Green Car Congress

Enterprise Rent-A-Car will be the first to offer Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicles (EVs) for daily and weekly rentals later this month. The Volt vehicles will be available at the Mark Christopher Auto Center in Ontario, Calif., along with a new charging station.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

It’s rare when consumer karma actually works out for any buyer of any product made today, but then again, your friendly neighborhood Greenius is not your usual consumer. For the first time in my life I went to the Auto Show at the LA Convention Center so I could actually sit in the car and check out the inside.

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Swaying toward EV mobility

Electric Auto Association

Michael Peters, the CEO and cofounder of the electric vehicle (EV) car share service Sway Mobility , works with the Electric Auto Association (EAA) at the national level as treasurer, and at the local level as a ‘Lead Volunteer” for Drive Electric Northeast Ohio. “So Michael Peters in the passenger seat of a Sway Mobility Bolt.

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Personal: One in a Million

Clean Fleet Report

I think that’s fair since on a good day my 3 ½-year-old Chevrolet Volt has a 61-mile all-electric range, roughly comparable to a used Nissan Leaf or Fiat 500e. In fact, it might not even be possible for the auto industry to produce that many EVs, although the rate of expansion is dizzying. Chevrolet Bolt EV – 12,313.

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It’s all about connection

Electric Auto Association

The Chevrolet Bolt was offered by GM Maven for Lyft and Uber drivers as a rental option, so I took them up on it. Connections that last In 2019, Elaine Bosworth, Vice-President and Chair of the Chapter Development and Membership Committee of the Electric Auto Association, introduced Pierce and Nuenke at a ‘ride and drive’ event in San Diego.

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GM and ABB demonstrate community energy storage system built from 5 used Volt batteries; Duke Energy testing

Green Car Congress

During a symposium for the media on GM’s electrification efforts, including a preview of the Spark EV to be unveiled at the LA Auto Show in two weeks, General Motors and ABB showed and demonstrated a new grid distributed micro-storage (at grid scale) system—i.e., Duke supports about 4.2

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Therefore it is important that auto manufacturers, policy makers and electric utilities work together very closely. Berkeley will have a higher percentage than Fresno—it will not be unlikely for 3-5 PEVs to show up on one neighborhood circuit in Berkeley, overwhelming the local circuit, and leading to blackouts, he said.

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