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EVs for posterity

Electric Auto Association

EVs on display at the California Automobile Museum. The Sacramento Electric Vehicle Association (SacEV) has a history of holding chapter meetings at the California Automobile Museum , but until last year, it was on a very occasional basis. SacEV chapter meets at the California Automobile Museum.

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My Tesla arrives in Los Angeles!

Revenge of the Electric Car

It’s been five years since my last silver all electric sports car, a GM EV1, was infamously destroyed. America’s first ground-up design pure electric sportscar since the EV1 arrives again. What sold me was knowing this was speed and a new era of clean domestically powered American automobiles. I am very very lucky!

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Fiat Chrysler to electrify more vehicles as diesels fall out of favor

Green Car Reports

Among the Detroit Three automakers, General Motors has a quarter of a century of electric-car experience, from the legendary EV1 to the 238-mile Chevrolet Bolt EV. Ford launched hybrids in 2004, before any other maker, but its battery-electric efforts thus far have been strictly compliance cars.

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Natural EV capitalism

Electric Auto Association

EV1 started it off Martinson, who was a satisfied Porsche owner in the early 00s, was on a flight from New York to Phoenix when he found himself sitting next to the CEO of Arizona’s largest utility company. “His Martinson’s GM EV1. This did not stop the CEO from offering Martinson a chance to drive one of the utility’s GM EV1 ’s. “He

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Report: Sumitomo to begin selling fuel cells for commercial vehicles with US Hybrid

Green Car Congress

Sumitomo, which is strengthening its automobile business and expects growth in the fuel cell market, plans to supply mostly Japanese commercial vehicle makers, according to the report. The Nikkei reports that Sumitomo Corp., Sumitomo has been involved in fuel cell research and development of years, and already produces fuel cell components.

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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"

Plugs and Cars

Must the battery really be lithium to get this radically different automobile off the drawing board and into the showroom? Perhaps Lutz's mistaken impressions about the EV1 and electric cars color his understanding of what NiMH can achieve. (Or Could Lutz not know the range of an EV1? And there's the rub.

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Icelanders get a sneak peek of REVENGE

Revenge of the Electric Car

He was invited to appear through the magic of webcams and satellite communication to join a panel discussion on the benefits and challenges of the transformative technologies of electric automobiles. It was anxiously awaited and very warmly received; we believe the audience enjoyed the footage immensely.

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