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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

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. The pair made major contributions to the propulsion system for the Impact , a battery-powered concept car that AeroVironment built under contract for General Motors.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

GMC Hummer EV 2021 GMC Hummer EV pickup truck While General Motors is making a massive commitment to EVs and has teased an electrified Chevrolet pick-up to go head-to-head with the F-150, the one concrete indication we have seen so far of its battery electric pick-up capabilities is the GMC Hummer SUT.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk talks EV charging infrastructure and billionaire taxes

Teslarati

So there’s no need for this support for a charging network. But I think just generally, I’m in favor of deleting subsidies. When we started Tesla, there were no EV subsidies at all, and gasoline was super cheap. Generally, I think the estate tax is a good tax. I’d delete it. I don’t know.

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That Super Sexy Clean Tech Roundtable, Part II of a Greenius Exclusive

Creative Greenius

If you’re like me you would have found Tuesday’s gathering in Santa Monica a very sexy day at the beach. Don’t forget that the big brains at General Motors used toasters, lamps and electric fans as the spokespeople last time they had a sexy electric car to market. But the Creative Greenius?

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

BMW XM – X5 underpinnings but with a body specific to BMW M on top, the XM pairs a V8 with electric motors for big PHEV performance. BMW M cars – they’re coming with hybrid drivetrains. And if we’re guessing, we reckon it could be called the Ranger Lightning (see above). Soon, apparently.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.

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US President Biden’s union-friendly $4,500 EV tax credit buff is facing a big challenge

Teslarati

If you’re a capitalist economy that we are in society, then you let the product speak for itself, and hopefully, we’ll get that, that’ll be corrected,” Manchin said. Biden has also pushed for the buildout of an EV charging network across the United States. . I’d delete it. I don’t know.