CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 29, 2023

With all of the headwinds EVs are facing in recent weeks, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: affordability is a giant factor. With inflation kicking families in the butt at grocery stores, economic challenges leading to lower or lost pay, and interest rates climbing, car buyers are feeling the squeeze.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Photo: GM Energy GM Energy just debuted vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional EV chargers – here’s how GM’s EVs will keep the lights on. Once installed, GM Energy’s home EV chargers will enable customers to send power from a compatible GM EV to their home in the face of increasing power outages across the US.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Before we get to GuideStar, we need to cover much context around why GM was so keen on high-tech things in the Nineties, and the massive amounts of money it spent in its pursuit. For that context we turn to GM CEO Roger Smith (pictured at left)(1925-2007), who was chairman of the company from 1981 to 1990. and gave Perot pull at GM.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 9, 2024

It would help if GM finally learned how to differentiate luxury-car interiors from cheaper GM models. The materials above the beltline looked and felt price appropriate -- but the ones below the beltline felt cheap. And, again, the Blackwing models are on par with the competition. That shouldn't be acceptable on a Cadillac.

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Teslarati

MARCH 24, 2024

Former General Motors (GM) executive Terry Woychowski, who is now President of engineering consultancy Caresoft Global, called the arrival of the Seagull a “clarion call for the rest of the auto industry,” adding that it’s a “significant event” (via CNBC ). auto sector,” the organization writes.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2023

All I could think was that the little runabout was something to be avoided unless you just wanted cheap transport in crossover form. Perhaps not the worst choice for the urbanite who needs something cheap and easy to park. I remember some years ago, before joining TTAC, going to San Diego for the launch of the first-generation Trax.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

CNN Business recently published an article titled “The Chevy Bolt’s huge sales prove America is craving a cheap electric car.” ” It caught my attention since I track auto sales, and especially electric vehicle sales, very closely.

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Baua Electric

MAY 26, 2023

“We see the Chinese as the main competitor, not GM or Toyota,” Farley stated Thursday on the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Finance Zenith. ” Common Motors CEO Mary Barra this past made her first talk over with to China for the reason that get started of the pandemic, as GM struggles with a gross sales hunch there.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The two body styles parallel the pair of H2 versions sold from 2002 to 2009, when Hummer was one of eight brands offered by GM. The brand died in 2009 as GM declared bankruptcy, restructured with US government backing, and jettisoned not only Hummer but also Pontiac, Saab and Saturn. Ditto the smaller H3, priced to be the sales leader.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 23, 2007

"If you're going to the trouble of building a plug-in and therefore have an electric drive train and a battery capable of storing a charge, then you could have a cheap gasoline engine along with you, or an expensive fuel cell." Tags: joseph romm GM chevy volt fuel cell hydrogen.

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Baua Electric

MAY 9, 2024

Its streamliner design features a front end that arguably has Porsche Panamera and GM EV1 vibes. It’s more aerodynamic than the Model 3, and it’s one of the most aerodynamic vehicles in production today. The rear end harkens back to the Infiniti J30 and finishes it off with a ducktail spoiler. It should be on the shopping list.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. According to Japan’s Nikkei , the Japanese automaker is looking at several sites in Canada, including one near its auto factory in Alliston, Ontario.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Such is the nature of the mighty GM Empire. Gas was cheap during the late 1980s and early 1990s, other than a spike after Iraq invaded Kuwait , but some car buyers still wanted good fuel economy. This car has a Delco AM/FM/cassette radio, which added $441 to the bottom line ($980 now). Gets 100 kilometers per 4.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Li ion batteries use intrinsically cheap materials but require a very large surface area of very finely controlled thin layers, interfaces, and separators and, by their nature, use monopolar design (current collectors coming out of the side of each cell).

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

“Stocks are dirt cheap on an absolute basis,” he said. If you were to walk up to ten people on the street and ask them the CEOs of Tesla, Ford, and GM, many would likely be able to say Elon Musk, but very few would know Jim Farley and Mary Barra if they are not interested in the automotive sector.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

China’s upstart electric brands, and even its state-owned, legacy automakers, are racing to pack technology and features once considered premium into EVs as cheap as USD 20,000 – less than half the cost of an average new car in the United States, now more than USD 48,000.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

Nissan is about to drink GM’s milkshake with a breakthrough, affordable, next generation electric car that will be beat the Chevy Volt to market, cost half as much and work twice as well. Tags: electric cars environment plug-in cars BMW Mini-E Bob Lutz BYD Chevy Volt Chrysler Ford GM Nissan Leaf Plug-In America Warren Buffett.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Before cofounding AC Propulsion, Alan Cocconi worked on Sunraycer, a solar-powered car for GM. After earning a Ph.D.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Photo: GM GM has a new suite of energy products that allow you to share power between your car and your home, and we got to see them in action. Installation is separate (and costs can vary widely), and GM has partnered with Qmerit, a national EV charging installation company, to make it easier for customers to find an installer.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

GM is bringing back the Hummer brand as an EV within the GMC brand. GM, shifting focus to pure EVs, built the last Volt on February 19, 2019. GM’s signature EV now is the Chevrolet Bolt EV , another new name, which arrived as a 2017 model and promptly won Motor Trend ’s Car of the Year award. I’m hoping for the latter.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 20, 2023

In 2020, a UN panel discovered that Ghosn’s detention in a Jap prison for greater than 100 days used to be neither important nor cheap and violated his rights. The ones plans sooner or later turned into the foundation for the arrest of Ghosn and Greg Kelly, a former Nissan director who used to be concerned within the wage discussions.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. GM supposedly lost $561 million on Cruise in just the first three months of this year. And it’s really cheap.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hummer used to be a stand-alone brand of heavy-duty 4x4s that GM killed off during the Global Financial Crisis. There is a chance the Hummer will come to Australia under the auspices of the GM Specialty Vehicles business that replaces the culled Holden. It has now re-established it as an electrified sub-brand of GMC.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

GM’s Jon Lauckner, Vice President, Global Program Management, highlighted one of the mundane challenges facing automakers and customers: who will wire up the home 220V charging system, and how quickly? Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. Ann Marie Sastry, Ph.D.,

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor. But neither car, GM execs made clear, will appear for sale on a showroom floor for more that two years.

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Noodoe

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Ford May Pass GM in EV Sales Soon. Cheap New Method Reuses EV Batteries. The dream car has white angel wings for doors, gold star stickers, and rainbow-colored wheels. The EV definitely serves best-in-design for Mattel! EV Investments and Innovation. Given the success of the Mach-E, this is hardly surprising news.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 13, 2011

Nissan and GM have each had their preferred provider for home charge stations in an attempt to streamline the process, but many customers have had complaints about the cost and scheduling. For the electric vehicle project, broadly speaking, to be successful, we need to be mindful to keep it simple and keep it cheap.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The growing momentum pushing a rapid transition to zero-emission vehicles, combined with a genuine need for range comparable to diesel powertrains and quick refueling, means massive automotive players like Toyota, Hyundai, GM, and Daimler are continuing to pump millions into improving fuel cell system technology and bringing down costs.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 30, 2021

About those radio knobs and the climate control wheels: they are constructed using a cheap-feeling chromed plastic. This is one area where GM is the industry leader, and after the trial service plan expires, it is well worth renewing. These were the only drawbacks to this fine interior, but certainly not a deal breaker.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 14, 2007

So it is a photo of the Tesla Roadster that graces this article despite its message that electrics remain not ready for prime time because GM and Toyota say so. The reader is just meant to be left with the impression that Big Auto is still trying but the dang technology just isn't good enough or safe enough or cheap enough to market.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Ford and General Motors (GM) announced plans to scale down EV production this year. Ford pauses all F-150 Lightning shipments as gas deliveries begin Some theorized that GM and Ford scaled back EV production plans because there was not enough demand for electric vehicles in the United States.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Note: Bob's love of EVs goes back to having two GM EV1s. Note : Beside wanting to write the bestseller called "Plug'n America: With the "Spirit" and on the Cheap! Besides owning a few classic EVs, Bob has in mind an EV Museum. EVJerr here has in mind a Bookmans Living Plug-in EV Museum.so stand by for more info on this concept.

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Charged EVs

JUNE 2, 2023

Iconic design, two-tone paint, three rows, AWD; whatever you call it, the Buzz won’t be cheap. Ford, Hyundai, Kia, and GM will all launch vehicles into that segment over the next couple of years. Whatever it is, it won’t be cheap Defining the ID.Buzz as a vehicle is difficult. Now we know VW will join them. 4s sold in Canada.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

If you’re CATL, you can sell in mass quantities to GM and Ford. Those guys don’t have the wherewithal to finance a battery-electric truck that costs twice as much as a diesel truck, and they’re usually buying third- or fourth-owner diesels anyway, that are super-cheap. It’s easier to sell to the light-duty market.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 2, 2023

Many automakers have also joined the electric bicycle bandwagon in recent years, drawn by the rapidly increasing market and cheap barrier to entry for lightweight two-wheeled electric vehicles. GM indigenously developed an electric bicycle, but it was ruthlessly killed out early in the COVID-19 epidemic.

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Cars That Think

JULY 16, 2021

Autonomous vehicles built by Alphabet subsidiary Waymo and GM-owned Cruise fuse input from cameras, radar and ultra-precise lidar and only ply streets pre-mapped using high-resolution 3D laser scans. Cameras are dirt cheap compared to lidar,” he says. “By By doing this they can put this technology into all the cars they’re selling.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

US car giant GM is to develop and market a small, cheap electric car for the Indian market. GM India and Reva will jointly develop car platforms and electric vehicle technology for the vehicle. The two companies have begun feasibility studies of GM’s small vehicle platforms to host the electric technology.

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