Green Car Reports

JULY 31, 2017

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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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2020

As quick reference comparisons, both the GM EV1 and Volkswagen’s XL1 had drag coefficients of approximately 0.19; the Mercedes-Benz A-Class comes in at approximately 0.22; the Tesla Model 3 at 0.23. So here, the very shape of the battery pack enhances the car’s aerodynamics.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2010

Bereisa led GM’s EV1 project as chief engineer. He was responsible for the technology development and production design of the EV1 electric traction system, power inverter, battery pack and charger. Stempel, who oversaw the introduction of the EV1 when Chairman and CEO of GM, is a past EDTA Hall of Fame inductee.).

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

Toyota clearly had no love or expertise for pure Battery Electric Vehicles and was only interested in getting credit for a compliance car. And in May of 2020 when the propulsion battery in the Bolt we purchased would only charge to 50%, we knew that section 3 had probably failed – as it had with several other 2017 Bolts.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

The two new electric-only modes have the capability to cover the entire FTP urban cycle with a properly sized battery pack, GM says. With this, there are two new electric-only modes: EV1 and EV2. In EV1, the transmission is in the first continuously-variable mode EVT1 with both brake-clutch CB12R and CB5 applied.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

Consumer confidence in future mobility technologies lags far behind automakers’ plans to bring self-driving and battery-electric vehicles to the marketplace, according to the J.D. For battery-electric vehicles, the index remains at 55 in the US for the fourth consecutive quarter, while decreasing to 57 from 59 in Canada.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

The technology behind its electric vehicle charging solutions emerged after AeroVironment’s substantial contributions to the development of the GM Impact, the concept car for General Motors’ EV1.

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Seattle EV1 Charging United States 230

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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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The solid-state EV battery race is really cooking now, and Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard is a fan.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2011

During his presentation on challenges for battery development for an extended range electric vehicle to the AABC event in Pasadena this past week, Roland Matthé, GM’s technical manager for the Voltec Battery System, as an aside touched on another challenge: finding an appropriate plug.

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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. Green Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Chevrolet Bolt Chevrolet Bolt EV EV1 Future Cars plug-in cars' That''s Bolt-with-a-B, not Volt-with-a-V.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 22, 2021

The three US electric vehicles (EVs) were the iconic GM EV1 , Chrysler TEVan , and the nearly forgotten Ford RangerEV , Ford used lead-acid batteries with the expected driving range of nearly 65 miles on warm, windless summer days. The Honda EV+, Toyota RAV4EV, and the inductively-charged Nissan Hypermini were produced in Japan.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

I have to admit, I was a bit surprised when GM announced that it would start its new Ultium battery-powered electric vehicle push with the GMC Hummer EV. As per the EPA documents , the Hummer EV Edition 1 is equipped with an Ultium battery pack that has a usable capacity of 212.7 It just felt a bit strange.

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Hummer GMC EPA Vehicles 98

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2013

Among his other career achievements are launching the lithium battery business for Delphi Electronics, including the Segway battery pack; project lead for production and battery pack design of GM’s EV1 electric car; and VP of Transportation at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2022

Weather-beating Battery. Even before the introduction of the General Motors EV1 in 1996, it was clear that if we’re ever going to replace cars powered by fossil fuels with electric vehicles, we’ll need batteries that take and deliver charge reliably in both hot and cold climates. Lakshay Khurana and Daniel Keppeler.

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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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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

As GM's first battery electric car since the EV1 of the 1990s, there's more riding on the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV electric minicar than its size would indicate. The company maintains the electric Spark is not just a compliance car, but a fully developed product to be sold not only in California, but in Korea and other markets.

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2014 EV1 Electric Cars Chevrolet 102

Teslarati

JUNE 16, 2021

The Detroit-based GM entered the EV sector with the EV1 in 1996, which used a 16.5-18.7 kWh lead-acid battery in its earliest versions. ” GM announced a while back in March 2020 that it would commit $20 billion to EV and AV programs from 2020 to 2025. Further details about these new U.S. Commercializing U.S.-made

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 22, 2008

Tags: solar power miles o'brien toyota rav4 ev ev1 cnn solar PV solar electricity energy efficiency solar battery electric car.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tags: GM ev1 regenerative breaking battery electric car.

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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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Plugs and Cars

MAY 12, 2009

However, by the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed. My electric car recently crossed fifty thousand miles on the odometer with its original battery but without so much as a splash of gasoline. Tom Hanks Los Angeles, Calif.

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Electric Cars EV1 Los Angeles Cars 124

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). Tags: Batteries.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 6, 2008

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. Videos are beginning to show up on youtube.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 6, 2008

Hell, they could simply sell the few EV1s they still have running around. They could encourage museums and universities with donated, disabled EV1s to rebuild them as electric cars and allow them on the roads.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 12, 2009

However, by the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, the EV1 had already been yanked from showrooms as if the car had never existed. My electric car recently crossed fifty thousand miles on the odometer with its original battery but without so much as a splash of gasoline. A letter in response to Peter J.

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Electric Cars EV1 Los Angeles Cars 140

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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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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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

It should win over many buyers who aren’t used to battery power and will be more comfortable with a vehicle that feels familiar to them.” The Kia EV9 offers a family-friendly interior, and on top of that, a driving experience that feels close to that of gasoline but with no emissions.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Mastering of the Electric Power That Controls the Batteries and Motors of Electric Vehicles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 28, 2010

Now here we are in 2010, as welcomed guests of GM no less, watching electric cars roll off the assembly line for the first time since the EV1 stopped production in 1999. and trying to put together the pieces behind the ridiculous decision by car makers to terminate their advanced electric car programs. So it was very, very cool to see!

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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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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

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. The Honda EV+ used the same Panasonic EV-95 NiMH battery modules with an active system, and those packs didn't last as long. Buyer beware!

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Blink Charging

MARCH 3, 2022

In 2018, the Blue Switch project was created by Nissan as an initiative to promote the use of electric car batteries as viable resources for issues related to disaster prevention, energy management, climate change, and more. Having a fleet of EVs as backup batteries can help a community bounce back with minimal effort. . In the U.S.,

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

The advanced technology vehicle would have an extended driving range on battery power and would also have a diesel or gasoline engine that could power the car when the battery was low, the Detroit News said, citing unnamed GM officials. This year, it has also drawn sharp criticism for its decision to kill its EV1 electric car program.

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