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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.

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Vehicle Electrification a Key Strategic Initiative for Magna; Steady Increases in Capabilities and Technology Portfolio Over Past Few Years

Green Car Congress

Canada-based international auto supplier and contract assembler Magna International, now with a Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of Opel from General Motors ( earlier post ), sees vehicle electrification as one of its key strategic initiatives. In 2007, Magna Steyr brought its HySUV hybrid concept to EVS-23 in Anaheim.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

We’ll try to keep this up-to-date as the EV market continues to evolve. The hard numbers for the Top 10 EV sellers for the first eight months of 2021 are as follows: Tesla Model Y 105,445. The only upgrade is the Plaid version that features even faster acceleration from three motors, producing sub-two second 0-60 runs.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

(2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. 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. What got you interested in EVs?

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Here is the comprehensive list of every new EV due in the next few years. ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 Aston Martin DBX PHEV and EV – electrified versions of AM’s first SUV on the cards. Subscribe now!

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GM provides technical details of the Gen 2 Voltec propulsion system used in the 2016 Volt

Green Car Congress

Smooth, unobtrusive, power on demand regardless of whether the vehicle is operating in EV or range extended mode. GM took a blank-sheet approach to designing the second-generation system. About half of these were chosen for energy modeling in both EV and extended range operation, using a simulation tool developed by GMR&D.

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Hasner’s Florida State Electric Car Tax Break Gets Boost

Revenge of the Electric Car

Today, electric vehicles and plug-in cars are a niche product. One example is the much-publicized Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid due out in 2010 that ailing General Motors is staking its future on. In addition, consumers and businesses would be eligible for a $2,000 rebate after converting a gasoline-powered vehicle to a plug-in.

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