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Driving a Chevy Bolt EV electric car halfway across the U.S.: what it takes

Green Car Reports

That's exactly what Bill Massmann, a professional land surveyor in St. Louis, Missouri, did to become the proud owner of a new 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car. Badly enough to drive it more than 800 miles without a unified fast-charging infrastructure? DON'T MISS: Chevy Bolt EV.

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GM workaround for transport snags: Broker pickup from the manufacturing unit

Baua Electric

GM has labored to seek out inventive techniques round logistics stumbling blocks, from purchasing its personal fleet of vans and excess capability via third-party carriers to uploading the South Korea-made Chevrolet Trax on container vessels in lieu than conventional automobile shipment ships, Bell stated. “We’re entrepreneurs.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St. Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets. Develop, analyze, and demonstrate hundreds of Chevrolet Volt Extended Range Electric Vehicles (EREVs) --125 Volt PHEVs for electric utilities and 500 Volt PHEVs to consumers. Rolla, MO Warrensburg, MO Linn, MO St. Chrysler LLC. $70. Technology.

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