General Motors Embraces Plug & Charge Technology
CleanTechnica EVs
JUNE 27, 2022
General Motors is adding plug-and-charge technology for its electric car drivers starting with the EVgo charging network.
CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy
Creative Greenius
APRIL 25, 2021
I started learning about, writing about, and promoting electric cars in 2007. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car. Installing the 5.2
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GM ‘all-in on EVs’ goes back to plug-in hybrids amid setback with its electric car plans
Electrek
JANUARY 30, 2024
General Motors claimed that it is “all-in on electric vehicles” for years, but today, CEO Mary Barra confirmed that the automaker is changing strategy and going back to plug-in hybrids amid setback in its electric car plans.
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GM Is Suddenly In Love With Plug-In Hybrid Technology, But Which Models Will Get It?
CleanTechnica EVs
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
General Motors has said recently it will bring more plug-in hybrid models to market. The post GM Is Suddenly In Love With Plug-In Hybrid Technology, But Which Models Will Get It? Why did it wait so long? appeared first on CleanTechnica.
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GM ‘all-in on EVs’ goes back to plug-in hybrids amid setback with its electric car plans
Baua Electric
JANUARY 30, 2024
General Motors claimed that it is “all-in on electric vehicles” for years, but today, CEO Mary Barra confirmed that the automaker is changing strategy and going back to plug-in hybrids amid setback in its electric car plans. Electrek’s Take I think this is a stepback for GM.
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SAE To Standardize NACS Connector As EV Charging Tide Turns Toward Tesla
CleanTechnica EVs
JUNE 28, 2023
Ford started it last month when it announced it would install charging sockets in its electric cars that conform to the Tesla charging standard commonly known as the North American Charging Standard.
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The Greenius Plan For General Motors
Creative Greenius
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
I’m afraid the time has come to pull the plug on GM’s life support so we can plug into a whole new kind of Motors much better than General. I’m talking about electric motors. And I’m talking about killing GM the way GM killed the electric car. With extreme prejudice.
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Cadillac To Offer All-Electric Car As Well As Plug-In Hybrid, ELR Successor
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 13, 2014
While General Motors'' plug-in electric cars are in a bit of a sales lull this fall, the company has an expanding number of plug-in products planned for years to come. The latest to be uncovered--at least in the planning stages--is an all-electric Cadillac sedan.
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Plug-in electric car sales for March: Prius Prime romps, monthly data an endangered species? (update)
Green Car Reports
APRIL 3, 2018
The monthly report on sales of plug-in electric cars may well have come to a close this month. General Motors, makers of the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Volt, said it will only release sales figures quarterly starting after its Tuesday release of deliveries for the month of March.
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Chevy offers 0% financing on used Bolt EV and Volt
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 15, 2021
If you're considering a used electric car, now might be a good time to spring into action. General Motors is offering 0% APR financing for 72 months on used Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars and Chevy Volt plug-in hybrids, reports CarsDirect, which cited a bulletin sent to dealerships last week.
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GM To Concentrate On Plug-In Electric Cars, Downplay Hybrids
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
General Motors has narrowed its portfolio of future technologies, and will focus on plug-in and electric vehicles over the coming years. GM Product Chief Mary.
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Pilot Travel Centers, GM and EVgo Open First Stations in Coast-to-Coast EV Charging Network
Electric Cars Report
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Pilot Travel Centers, General Motors and EVgo today opened the first 17 locations of their previously announced national electric vehicle fast charging network.
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Plugged Up: GM to Adopt Tesla Charging Standard
The Truth About Cars
JUNE 9, 2023
If that news gave you whiplash, last night’s announcement of a similar move from General Motors will surely put yer back out. This is huge news since it’ll mean America’s three biggest sellers of electric vehicles will all be using the same power port. We say ‘simply’ but, of course, there’s nothing simple about it, really.
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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars
Clean Fleet Report
OCTOBER 21, 2021
2021 Is Here: Here Are the Top 10 Electric Car Companies. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases.
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Plug-in electric car sales for April: Leaf sales lag, spendy Porsches take off
Green Car Reports
MAY 4, 2018
A month after General Motors announced it would only release quarterly sales results, the landscape for plug-in electric and hybrid cars appears to be little changed. Industry analysts have.
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Jan Plug-In Electric Car Sales: Volt Falls, Leaf Supply Woes
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Sales of plug-in electric cars tripled last year, so how's the New Year looking? General Motors said it delivered 1,140 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric cars last month. Based on January sales, being reported throughout the day by automakers, the year is starting slowly.
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BMW: we won't mass-produce electric cars until 2020, with cheaper cells
Green Car Reports
MARCH 23, 2018
BMW sold more than 100,000 cars with plugs last year, adding together its battery-electric and plug-in hybrid models. That's roughly on a par with Tesla, and ahead of both General Motors and Nissan, two other pioneers in modern electric cars.
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Which carmaker will sell most electric cars in 2020, China included? Poll results
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 29, 2017
Last year, China's BYD sold more plug-in electric cars than any other company in the world. That includes General Motors, Nissan, and Tesla.
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99 GM's 200-Mile Electric Car For 2017: What We Know So Far
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 18, 2014
The arrival of a moderately-priced battery electric car with a rated range of 200 miles will change the entire market for plug-in vehicles. When that will happen, and from which maker, remains open--though the likely suspects are Nissan, Tesla, and General Motors, with BMW as a long-shot outsider.
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GM ramps up 2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric-car production; how many can it build?
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
With anticipation of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV launch growing, General Motors has started to ramp up production of its groundbreaking 200-mile electric car.
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Volvo adopts Tesla’s NACS Connector for EVs
Teslarati
JUNE 27, 2023
As a part of the partnership, Volvo will also gain access to 12,000 Tesla Supercharger locations across North America, just as Ford , General Motors , and Rivian have in their partnerships with the all-electric automaker. Soon thereafter, General Motors made the decision to adopt NACS, with Rivian following.
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145 Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada For February 2013
Green Car Reports
MARCH 19, 2013
For sales of plug-in electric vehicles in Canada, the (idiomatic, good) luck of the Irish arrived for one U.S. General Motors sold 51 Chevrolet Volts in Canada in February, up slightly from its Canadian total in January (44), and good enough for. Americans and Canadians alike returned to work this week after a festive St.
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LG Chem logs another electric-car win: Faraday Future to buy batteries
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 5, 2016
South Korean firm LG Chem is one of the largest suppliers of lithium-ion battery cells for electric cars. It already counts 25 separate auto brands among its clients, and parent company LG contracted with General Motors to provide extensive development work on the Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car.
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134 Electric cars taking over cities, industry executives weigh-in, a plug-in hybrid Range Rover: Today's Car News
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Today, Fiat-Chrysler's outspoken CEO casts doubt on electric cars, while Oxford in the U.K. All this and more on Green Car Reports. General Motors' CEO had her own things to say about electric cars. and Los Angeles are betting big on going gas- and diesel-free. Talk about contradictory.
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GM Developing Tesla Model E Rival: 200-Mile, $30,000 Electric Car?
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
So far, the Tesla Model S is alone among plug-in electric cars in providing 200 miles or more of electric range. But as Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] prepares to roll out its more affordable Model E late in 2016, it may face serious competition from General Motors.
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142 Automakers, electric utilities want electric-car tax credit extended
Green Car Reports
MARCH 20, 2018
With Tesla likely to hit 200,000 electric cars sold in the U.S. General Motors is likely to hit the same cap a couple of quarters after Tesla. later this year, it will begin a phasedown process during which the income-tax credits available to its buyers start to dwindle on a set schedule.
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103 Shift to electric cars will cost money, may lack excitement: Toyota CEO
Green Car Reports
MAY 18, 2017
Every automaker is now working on one or many electric cars, but some are at the head of the pack and others lag behind. General Motors already sells the 238-mile Chevrolet Bolt EV, and Volkswagen has firm plans for multiple electric cars by 2020 and as many as 30 by 2025.
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Global EV and PHEV sales rocketed in January, but here’s why analysts are gloomy
EV Central
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Sales of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids globally leapt by 69 per cent to an incredible 1.1 Despite seeing growth in EVs in almost every market, the general slowing of growth has already triggered some car-makers, like General Motors, to rethink its strategy. million delivered in 12 months.
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After Tesla, which automaker is best in electric cars? Poll results
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2017
Regardless of the number of cars they've sold—fewer than the Renault-Nissan alliance—Tesla is undoubtedly the best-known electric-car maker in the world. It delivered 76,000 cars last year, against roughly 10 million each for Volkswagen Group, Toyota, and General Motors.
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GM, BMW Complete Testing Of New CCS Quick-Charging Stations For Electric Cars
Green Car Reports
JUNE 13, 2013
General Motors and BMW announced on Tuesday that they had jointly completed testing new quick-charging equipment for plug-in electric cars. The charging stations, cables, and plugs were built to the new Combined Charging Standard (CCS) specification adopted by the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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2021 BMW X5 plug-in, compact battery testing, and National Drive Electric Week: Today's Car News
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
BMW reveals the 2021 X5 plug-in hybrid. A supplier tests a long-range, compact battery in a BMW i3 electric car. We kick off National Drive Electric Week. And General Motors plans to expand Chevrolet Bolt EV sales with more battery production in Michigan. All of this and more on Green Car Reports.
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In an ideal world, this is how electric-car tax credits should work
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Among them was the federal income-tax credit for purchase of a plug-in electric vehicle. Three carmakers—General Motors, Nissan, and Tesla—have now used more than half. Senate and House of Representatives retained a number of provisions originally slated to be cut from the tax code.
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GM To Forge Ahead With Electric, Plug-In Hybrid, Other Electrified Vehicles
Green Car Reports
MARCH 29, 2015
When oil prices drop, the knee-jerk response of many analysts is to forecast doom for sales of electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and other green cars. That''s not something General Motors recognizes as an issue, though. DON''T MISS.
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It's all coming together for electric cars, says Wall Street Journal columnist
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 30, 2016
A few years ago, a huge amount of media criticism poured down on the new category of electric cars, often on the basis of outright misinformation or—more charitably—confusion.
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV battery may fail due to faulty cell; new pack needed for a few GM electric cars (updated)
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 25, 2017
General Motors has informed "a few hundred" owners of 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars that their cars could suffer from a problem with the lithium-ion battery pack that could cause it to fail without warning.
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Tesla NACS standardization gets support from Biden White House
Teslarati
DECEMBER 19, 2023
It is also home to Tesla, arguably the world’s premier pure electric car maker. But outside Tesla’s electric cars, the situation is much different. Ford and General Motors were only the beginning , and more recently, even holdouts like Volkswagen have committed to the charging standard.
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BYD electric-car sales may triple this year, Chinese maker says
Green Car Reports
MARCH 30, 2016
China's BYD eked out a global victory in electric-car sales last year, selling more plug-in cars than BMW, General Motors, Nissan, Renault, or Tesla. The company delivered nearly 62,000 battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles last year, almost entirely in China.
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Do Nissan, Tesla Sales Mean Other Makers Don't Need Electric Cars?
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
You can break down car companies into three groups, depending on their electric-car activities. The leaders are Nissan, General Motors, BMW, and upstart Tesla, all of whom have developed purpose-built plug-in cars.
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BYD tests PHEV pickup truck in Mexico [Video]
Teslarati
APRIL 12, 2024
However, after it was spotted in Mexico undergoing some rigorous-looking tests, news broke that BYD’s upcoming pickup truck will be a plug-in electric vehicle (PHEV). As a PHEV, comparing BYD’s hybrid pickup truck with fully electric cars like the Tesla Cybertruck or Ford F-150 Lighting would be similar to comparing apples to oranges.
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How GM plans to market Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, Bolt EV electric car
Green Car Reports
MARCH 29, 2016
Hybrids are pretty well-known at this point, and battery-electric cars are conceptually simple: You plug them in like a mobile phone. But explaining plug-in hybrids to car buyers at large—it's a hybrid, but it also plugs in, but only for double-digit range—has proven to be very hard.
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Renault, GM, Tesla all promising 200+ mile range electric cars in a few years
National Green Transportation
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Renault is working on a plug-in hybrid for 2014, and is joining General Motors in predicting that by 2020 electric cars will commonly have an electric range over 200 miles. The statements were made late last week and.'
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103 Will GM or Tesla buyers lose electric-car tax credits first?
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
A major contributor to electric-car sales is the program under which buyers of new electric cars qualify for a federal income-tax credit of up to $7,500. Once a manufacturer reaches sales of 200,000 plug-in electric cars (after December 31, 2009), the credits start to phase out for that company's cars.
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