Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

When Straubel—also known for his 1984 Porsche 944 EV conversion—left Tesla, he founded Redwood Materials , a leading lithium battery recycling company in Carson City, Nevada. The car was powered by thousands of small lithium batteries,” Pohorsky explained. Richard’s magic sauce has been a battery that is low to the ground.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2015

General Motors confirmed yesterday that its upcoming 200-mile battery-electric car will be named the Chevrolet Bolt EV. The Volt-with-a-V is Chevy''s now-established plug-in hybrid compact hatchback. That''s Bolt-with-a-B, not Volt-with-a-V. DON''T MISS: Why ''Bolt'' Is A Really Terrible Name For Chevy''s Electric Car An all-new.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2013

a developer of technologies enabling the conversion of existing fleet vehicles into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, completed a $3-million financing with United Fleet Financing, LLC, through a private placement offering and mezzanine financing. Echo Automotive, Inc.,

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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. Think Tank’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key. How can you quickly improve the performance of the battery in an electric car? I’m still not convinced.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 4, 2007

GM today announced two contracts to "design and test lithium-ion batteries" for use in the Saturn Vue Plug-in Hybrid announced last month at the LA Auto Show. Johnson Controls/SAFT, the huge battery company at which President Bush first publicly announced his support for plug-in hybrids, received one contract.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

Plug-in cars are inevitable. The other carmakers domestic and foreign have less firm but well press-released plans for plug-ins. Veteran automakers, oil companies, and federal and state governments have been both the prime movers and obstacles to plug-in cars in the past and they remain so today. Here's my June column.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 6, 2008

Rechargeit.org , Google.org's campaign for plug-in cars, has issued a call for short videos. Jeff U'ren drove an EV1 for three years.well, the vid tells the tale. Tags: rechargeit.org google.org battery electric car plug-in car. If you've got one, explain how it works for you. If you want one, explain why.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

1 auto maker is accelerating its efforts to meet the challenge by being the first to offer a plug-in hybrid and by expanding its production of biofuel vehicles. He didn't give a time frame for the plug-in, but said it will take "several years" to bring one to market. Tags: GM plug-in hybrid Saturn. for complete story: [link].

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 25, 2022

I remember taking my mom to Ridge Winer y in her EV1 oh so long ago. Two brief charging stops that could have just been one and I arrived home with a bit less than 15% battery remaining. The Mach-E’s navigation system is battery state aware and also knows something about charging station locations. It was the elevation.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

He drove one of only a few hundred original GM EV1 two-seat electric cars almost 20 years ago. Bill Nye, better known as "The Science Guy" on the popular PBS children's series that bears his name, loves electric cars.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

Interest in plug-in cars of all sorts is real and growing. Regardless, GM ought to be producing the Volt now with the best available batteries, a PHEV-version of the NiMH in every hybrid on the road and which took the EV1 140 miles between charges. Tags: GM electric car plug-in hybrid chevy volt fuel cell.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade. It debuted in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Key products include integrated electronic power management systems as well as battery energy storage sub-systems, inverters and DC/DC (direct current to direct current) converters, chargers and power controllers that can be used in mild hybrids, full hybrids, electric vehicles and plug-in electric vehicles.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

GM Concept Car T here has been a rumor that General Motors might have a plug-in to show at the North American International Car Show in Detroit this coming January. GM likely to launch new plug-in hybrid Reuters Nov 10, 2006 DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. Join Plug In Partners today. Honda Motor Co. Ford Motor Co.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

While the goal is still a 2010 release, everything hinges on the Lithium battery thought to be the essential heart of the Volt. Must the battery really be lithium to get this radically different automobile off the drawing board and into the showroom? Could Lutz not know the range of an EV1? And there's the rub.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 25, 2010

He's pretty plugged in, having worked at Tesla and consulted for CODA. Second, and the point on which the article devotes most attention, is whether Nissan is "cutting corners" by forgoing an active thermal management (HVAC) system for the batteries. They reverted to the T-shaped tunnel configuration for the battery used in the EV1.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 6, 2008

An anonymous commenter on my previous blogpost asks, "GM has alway said that the battery might not be ready. But unlike GM, Toyota hasn't promised a plug in car. While I have no doubt Toyota will release a plug-in car as soon as someone else does, until then they will join the "batteries aren't ready" chorus.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2016

Electric-car advocates are often passionate, with memories long enough to remember GM's 2004 destruction of its pioneering fleet of EV1 electric cars.

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EV Life

AUGUST 4, 2023

General Motors was one of the original pioneers of electric cars, introducing the EV1 in 1996 and the game-changing Volt in 2010. The CVRP offers rebates of up to $7,500 for the purchase or lease of eligible zero-emission vehicles, including electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles. Clean Vehicle Assistance Program.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 27, 2007

Many of our members, including myself, drove ZEV Mandate battery electric cars - GM EV1, Honda EV+, Ford Th!nk Many more of our members would like the choice to be available to buy electric and plug-in hybrids cars. Thousands of battery ZEVs were on the road in consumers hands a few short years ago.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? Real Life EV Stories A Case for Electricity Plug In America Positions Energy Policy Frequently Asked Questions About Plug-in Buses Who Killed the Electric Car? 3 CARB Date with Destiny Move CARB Forward Plug In America Podcasts! Where Can I Buy One? 4 Great Gifts!

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. Paine followed the plight of his EV1 to its (literally) crushing end. home as “the Plug-In Mecca&# to tell this EV story right.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

I have seen the future my friends and it looks exactly like a 76 degree January day filled with beautiful people driving gorgeous plug-in hybrid and plug-in electric cars. The Plug-Ins are coming and you should wait till they get here before buying your next new car. Few have done more for the Plug-In Car movement.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 14, 2007

Electric cars get their own piece by Kevin Cameron, ( Electric Cars Nearly Ready, but Batteries Are Less So ) as the Tesla can't be ignored at this point. The Volt remains a dream, and a new generation Prius (read plug-in) just have to wait for the perfect Lithium battery. Just because they say so.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Reminiscent of GM referring to EV1 drivers as "owners," despite their unwillingness to actually sell the car. I also tried to find out the size of the battery pack in this battery/fuel cell hybrid car. I suspect the battery we'll see in the FCX will be big enough to for a great plug-in hybrid. Is that all?

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 3, 2011

But one shouldn't have to know Bob to plug in your new car. I'd hoped the City would find a way to open up the opportunity for the people beginning to obtain plug-in cars to more freely use these rare, public charge stations. Publicly plugging in is an act of coming out, of civic responsibility. You see the credit card symbols.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2009

In response to the Presidential Auto Task Force Report that concluded that the plug-in Chevrolet Volt was unlikely to be commercially successful in the short-term due to its cost ( earlier post ), Plug In America is proposing a plan to make GM’s Chevy Volt and other plug-in cars more affordable. Chelsea Sexton. Chelsea Sexton.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. 2 of 3) Driven by Detroit This strategic decision is part of what makes Bright different from the other startups offering to retrofit hybrid cars or to sell plug-ins. In the 1990s, Waters led development of the battery pack for General Motors Corp.s

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EV Life

MARCH 7, 2023

GM has been one of the pioneers of electric vehicles, introducing the General Motors EV1 back in 1996 and the groundbreaking Chevy Volt in 2010. Today, Chevrolet has some of the best EV options on the market, with more scheduled for release in the next few years.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Audi RS models – performance flagships set to pick up plug-in hybrid tech as early as 2021. BMW iX – ground-up battery electric vehicle promises to take the luxury fight to Tesla. Citroen C5 X PHEV – sleek and stylish plug-in hybrid will be created as a sedan, wagon and SUV. Audi RS e-Tron GT. Promised by 2025.

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EV Central

JANUARY 29, 2023

The Kia EV6 has been one of the most important battery electric vehicles to arrive in Australia, gaining both critical and sales success in the process. Its battery is covered by a seven-year/150,000km warranty. Note that the full power is only delivered in GT mode and then only with battery at least 70 per cent charged.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

Inductive charging with a paddle-type connector was used in a number of earlier EVs, notably GM’s EV1, the Nissan Hypermini EV, and the Toyota RAV4. The two coils must be very close together, but do not make direct electrical contact.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Chris Paine’s docudrama “ Who Killed the Electric Car &# has raised awareness that plug-in electric vehicles are possible, and the demand for plug-in electric vehicles has never been higher. The battery pack is comprised of 5,088 lithium-ion cells for a cummulative 35kWhrs of energy storage. second range.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

At least GM sent this nifty printed banner explaining all about the new J1772 industry standard recharging plug. They even had a real plug connected to their toy car on the exhibit hall. Luckily no one was really at Plug-In 2009 to hear the Three Car Stooges at this point, they don’t have any pleasant surprises in store for us.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. Battery technologies are advancing rapidly. Electricity costs are relatively inexpensive.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

. “Any new technology like the Chevy Volt takes time to become profitable,&# said Jay Friedland, the legislative director for Plug-In America , an electric-car advocacy group. During his campaign, President Obama said he would work to put one million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015. and Chrysler. — jake 9.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 27, 2009

Given the history, I’ve all but made a nuisance of myself for this company, seeking evidence of their sincerity about doing another plug-in car- “fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice” and all of that. While the EV1 wasn’t flawless, it became the benchmark of what GM was capable of in both engineering and consumer passion.

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