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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. Mr. Holden demanded the EV1’s immediate re-introduction before, or in exchange for, any Government bailout of GM. said Holden.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. But I was still stoked to exhibit the car at every LA area EV Expo, Earth Day Event and Plug-In spectacular. Installing the 5.2

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Fisker Karma Electric-Car Charging Stations Have EV1 Roots

Green Car Reports

When you buy an electric car, you will most likely need a charging station. As buyers start to bring home plug-in cars, they will also expect their dealer to help them acquire and install a 240-Volt charging station (technically known as an EVSE, though few people call them that).

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Science Guy Bill Nye buys Chevy Bolt EV, his seventh electric car

Green Car Reports

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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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

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. No one needs to buy another new gas powered car. Keep your old car, or buy an inexpensive used car. Few have done more for the Plug-In Car movement.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

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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Toyota Snags a RAV4 EV

Plugs and Cars

Now that automakers seem to be reevaluating plug-in cars, you'd think the era of automakers taking extraordinary steps to keep electric cars from private ownership would be over. As GM talks up the Volt, it ensures EV1s at museums and universities not be returned to the road as electric cars. You'd be wrong.

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