Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Bright Automotive, Inc., the developer of the purpose-built, plug-in hybrid IDEA ( earlier post ) launched of Bright eSolutions to support automotive customers worldwide to accelerate vehicle electrification, lightweighting, and overall platform efficiency. As part of the $1.4 IDEA performance upgrade.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Bright Automotive, Inc. has entered into an agreement for AM General LLC to be Bright’s exclusive North American assembler for the Bright IDEA vehicle platform. AM General will build the Bright IDEA in its Commercial Assembly Plant in Mishawaka, Ind., under a contract assembly agreement.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

But there is reason to be optimistic that battery technology—which by far casts the longest shadow on grid-centric vehicles—there is reason to believe it will improve quite significantly in the future. GM Ventures also had a stake in Bright Automotive ( earlier post ), which shut down earlier this year.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Bright Automotive. Coda Automotive. Tesla Motors. Fisker Automotive. Fisker Automotive. Tesla Motor. Bright Automotive. Tesla Motors. Fisker Automotive. General Motors. Which electric-car developer counts former U. Reuben Munger. Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Here’s what the brainiacs at General Motors sent the premier EV car conference on the West Coast. The eBox above from AC Propulsion is sending power to and from the grid right there on the Long Beach Convention Center floor. The folks who blew me away were the ones from Bright Automotive.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. 10/31/07 [General Motors Corp.

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