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Chelsea Sexton has a Volt for a foster child

Revenge of the Electric Car

Read about her cautious optimism for GM’s new electric car in her recent blog post: “I first learned of the Chevrolet Volt while standing on a Minneapolis street corner on June 23, 2006. …read the rest of her blog post here. Tags: Collaborators Film News Guest Bloggers Test Fleets test drives.

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Wired blogger takes on Nissan LEAF

Plugs and Cars

Darryl Siry blogs over at Wired's Autopia. They reverted to the T-shaped tunnel configuration for the battery used in the EV1. Tags: carlos ghosn toyota rav4 ev GM honda ev+ chevy volt nissan leaf. He's pretty plugged in, having worked at Tesla and consulted for CODA. How did that work out?) And I find it makes me feel confined.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm Tags: ev evdriven. htm Advocates of the Th!

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. April 17, 2009 3:14 pm Link Goodbye GM is right, they h ad an electric car called the EV1 what happened to it? They are evidently conspiring with the oil companies otherwise why else would they destroy the EV1s. I miss my EV1. — Garrek 17.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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s ill-fated EV1, which was and remains the only all-electric vehicle from a major automaker. Tags: evdriven. John Waters, the CEO of Bright Automotive, is a veteran of Detroits auto industry, just like most of the Bright team. In the 1990s, Waters led development of the battery pack for General Motors Corp.s and EnerDel Inc.,

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BMW MINI E Powered by AC Propulsion?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The biggest obstacle for those who would prefer an alternative has been lack of purchasable plug-in electric vehicles since 2003 when auto manufacturers ceased production of plug-in EVs like the GM EV1, Honda EV Plus, and Toyota RAV4-EV. I’ve been eagerly reading the flurry of blog entries and ongoing speculation on the MINI E.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We were successful with this before – remember the EV1?) All rights reserved. " ); Tags: evdriven. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read. ” Finally, within the next two to five, years we will see the re-emergence of pure electric vehicles. (We