Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

The California Energy Commission has chosen ClipperCreek, EV Connect, and Tom Dowling to upgrade the existing EV infrastructure (approximately 3,000 stations) throughout the state of California. This opportunity allows us to update California’s EV infrastructure with the new standards that accommodate all new EVs coming to market.

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EV Central

JULY 22, 2022

Cadillac overnight revealed the sleek Celestiq, which is a bold vision of the brand’s EV-only future and a car designed to send an electric shock to luxury car rivals. READ MORE: Better batteries, app updates for Chev, Cadillac, Hummer EVs. It will also have an appropriately stratospheric price tag. Cadillac Celestiq show car.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 31, 2023

EV prices haven’t fallen as promised, battery mining turned out to be rather contentious, and the vehicles themselves continue getting heavier — resulting in some record-setting curb weights that are likely serving to undermine roadway health and automotive safety. Worse still, EVs don’t really have as many avenues to trim their belt line.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 24, 2023

For any owners of Ford’s EVs without AM broadcast capability, we’ll offer a software update [to restore it.]” Electrical interference and reducing cost and manufacturing complexity also played a role. We’ve already seen General Motors taking heat over vowing to eliminate Apple CarPlay from future products.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The ultimate goal is to provide cost-effective, innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency of the country’s electrical grid. Earlier this month, Nissan Motor Co., Bly announced the partnership Tuesday at the EV Battery Tech conference in Troy, Michigan. Tags: Batteries Plug-ins Smart Grid. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Bright Automotive launched eSolutions with a just-announced contract from the US Army TACOM to conduct a demonstration project on a low-cost plug-in hybrid electric solution for non-tactical military vehicles. For many fleet operators, the added EV range will allow them to operate almost entirely gasoline-free, Bright said.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

General Motors announced a demonstration project ( earlier post ) to explore market needs and customer acceptance of battery electric vehicles in Korea. The Cruze EV is equipped with a 31 kWh battery that generates maximum power of 150 kW. The Cruze EV’s battery pack is mounted on the underbody. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Purcell, best known for his leadership at the General Motors Corporation with the GM EV-1, moves into this role after serving as a board director and strategic advisor to the company. Protean Electric designs, develops and manufactures the Protean Drive, a fully integrated, in-wheel motor, direct-drive solution.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2009

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC)—an organization whose members are Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Company—is seeking requests for proposal information (RFPIs) for four projects related to advanced battery development for hybrid electric, plug-in hybrid electric and electric vehicles.

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Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2009

According to reports, General Motors has splashed out around $1billion developing the Chevrolet Volt, while Chrysler hopes to invest around $448million in its electric vehicle programme. He also spent a year living with the pioneering General Motors EV1 electric car and has driven the vast majority of alternative fuel vehicles.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 3, 2010

Ford, General Motors and Smart are partners. Fully funded, the ChargePoint America program would cost $37 million, with some of the shortfall for the actual station installations being addressed, the organizers hope, through state and local grants.&#. Ford, General Motors and Smart are partners. By JIM MOTAVALLI.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Musk said the Roadster is priced comparably to other low-production, hand built sports cars, minus the savings on operating costs. who are in the sports car market, it’s the same lease cost as the sports. cost is about 10% less because of the savings from electricity versus. Tesla estimates the cost savings.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. VW’s ID4 is the first of a wave of EVs. Ford has had little to show in the EV market some some time. Tesla Model 3 80,681.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tesla will compete with established automakers like Ford, General Motors, and Nissan Motor, all of which are racing to launch electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles. roads by 2015 and low-cost Department of Energy loans for manufacturers. The electric-car start-up was offered $465 million in low-cost loans by the U.S.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Since achieving cost parity with internal combustion requires batteries to cost less than $500 per kWh, this is a welcome sign that we’ll be seeing those prices in short order. Automakers hope to use the batteries in next- generation hybrids as well as plug-in electric cars. Industry consultants say U.S.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

A note regarding OnStar : a simple push of a button connects you with a friendly General Motors representative to handle emergencies, directions and general assistance to make your driving experience safer and more enjoyable. General Motors has announced a commitment to 30 new global electric vehicles by the year 2025.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

(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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. General Motors Corporation. General Motors Corporation. General Motors. Ford Motor Company. $30. Brownstown, MI. Saft America, Inc.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

To date, the relatively high cost of batteries has kept electric and plug-in vehicles at the fringes of the auto industry. Waters worked on the battery for the General Motors EV1 and also worked at Ener1, which makes lithium-ion batteries. Tags: Bright Automotive EV News Production News battery tech plug-ins.

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EV Life

MARCH 7, 2023

GM has been one of the pioneers of electric vehicles, introducing the General Motors EV1 back in 1996 and the groundbreaking Chevy Volt in 2010. Today, Chevrolet has some of the best EV options on the market, with more scheduled for release in the next few years.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. Lifetime service costs are lower for a vehicle that is mainly electric. At $3 for a gallon of gas, driving a non-hybrid car costs 8-20 cents/mile (depending on MPG).

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 7, 2023

Most models are aimed at the affluent, resulting in 9,000-pound behemoths with six-figure price tags. General Motors recently released the absolutely ludicrous GMC Hummer EV while the Chevrolet Bolt is being discontinued. That’s about what we’d expect from an EV of this size. The 2025 Volvo EX30 is 166.7

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Some of the new and updated models, such as a battery-powered version of Geelys Panda hatchback, may hit the market as early as October, and in some cases they might carry price tags low enough for farmers and other rural residents with limited financial means. Great Wall Motor Co., in late 2010. and Korean golf cart maker CT&T Co.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

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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Charged EVs

MAY 19, 2021

It’s a brand-new vehicle, sharing no body panels with its smaller sibling the Bolt EV, so it’s new! That’s substantially lower than the price tag of last year’s Bolt EV, and the updated smaller Bolt itself is going to drop more than $5,000, to come in at a starting price of $32,000. New role: value pricing.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The New York Times looks at how EVs are going to shake up our cities. Around the same time, General Motors will introduce the Chevrolet Volt, a vehicle able to go 40 miles on electricity before its small gasoline engine kicks in. Much of the attention on electric cars has been on the vehicles’ design, cost and performance.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The Wall Street Journal assesses your EV readiness. Tesla Motors. General Motors. It costs about $30,000. Tags: Production News. Are You Plugged In? By Mara Lemos Stein. Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. By MARA LEMOS STEIN. streets later this year.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By Seth Leitman Tue, Jan 6, 2009 Electrifying Times gave me the opportunity to attend a General Motors press event showing off the Volt back in late 2008 after just releasing the book Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, 2nd Edition. Turn the car into a 80 mile range EV. The GM (Range Extending EV) comes in with 50 miles per gallon.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 22, 2007

Although General Motors Corp.'s My Toyota RAV4 EV was only produced because of the California Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate, and every day it proves electric cars are viable now. Lutz says GM hopes to have one working car by year's end. With every succeeding announcement, the Volt recedes into the future. Write CARB.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Here’s what the brainiacs at General Motors sent the premier EV car conference on the West Coast. The Greenius says this car has true EV sex appeal. Their chargers were all over the exhibit floor charging every EV there. May I charge your EV sir? How's that for an endorsement? Check the oil?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. Tesla probably did not sign up because they are already making EV cars. Tags: evdriven.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. executive who has studied BYD. Wang typically works until 11 p.m.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

What isclear is that the full £5,000 will not be available for a £8,000 G-Wiz or a£15,000 Smart EV. The smallfour-seater Mitsubishi iMiEV uses lithium-ion but is likely to cost up to£20,000 when it becomes available here later this year. to charge overnight.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Price tag: about $25,000, made from 95% recyclable materials with a top speed of 65 miles per hour and range of 110 miles per charge. This is a much bigger call than choosing VHS over Betamax, because owning a dead end technology could cost you $50,000. Considering the cost of batteries, these are disposable cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). " In other words, General Motors is going to lose its shirt until the Volt establishes itself in the marketplace.

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