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Personal: Chevy Volt—Still Electric After All These Years

Clean Fleet Report

I love several things about the Volt that tipped my decision to buy out the lease and keep on driving—mostly on electricity: The Lectron charger has style and speed. Finally, the pleasant surprise at the end of my lease was something I wasn’t expecting—my Volt was worth substantially more than the buy-out.

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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. They then sold us a brand new 2021 Bolt EV Premier for $28,500. Let me tell you about it. The Bolt debuts at the 2016 LA Car Show.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

While semi drivers can be a conservative group, those willing to become the first EV drivers in their fleets soon came to appreciate some side benefits of electric trucks. It’s crucial that any operator have at least one person charged with the responsibility of coordinating all aspects of adding electric trucks to a fleet.

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It’s all about connection

Electric Auto Association

The Inland Empire EVA leverages impact with other advocacy groups. When you’re a smaller community, it makes sense to join together with other groups,” agreed Robert Nuenke, IEEVA co-founder and past-president. The change that we want to see in the world starts with ourselves and our personal friends and family.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

One of the keys to TOD is to desegregate commercial and residential land use so people live near where they work and even if they have to commute to work the distributed nature housing and commercial avoids the overcrowding in one direction you experience with dedicated residential neighborhoods. Masdar: “tabula rasa” in Abu Dhabi.

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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

Cars That Think

On 26 January 1926, select members of the Royal Institution gathered at Baird’s lab in London’s Soho neighborhood to witness the broadcast of a small but clearly defined image of a ventriloquist dummy’s face, sent from the televisor’s electromechanical transmitter to its receiver. But Baird earned his spot in history with the televisor.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Berkeley will have a higher percentage than Fresno—it will not be unlikely for 3-5 PEVs to show up on one neighborhood circuit in Berkeley, overwhelming the local circuit, and leading to blackouts, he said. Think of them as a giant fan club and focus group. PG&E will start with timers and dynamic pricing. Earlier post.).

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