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Revolutionizing the Roads: The GM EV1 and Pioneering Charging Technology

EV Solutions

In the late 1990s, a pioneering electric vehicle emerged on the automotive scene, rewriting the future of clean and sustainable transportation. General Motors innovated the EV market by showcasing their 1990 Impact Experimental, which heavily inspired the first mass-produced electric vehicle: The GM EV1.

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Tracing The Ancestry of Today’s Electric Vehicles (Part 3)

CleanTechnica EVs

This article is part of a short series on the history of electric vehicles. The GM Sunraycer, and The Quiet Achiever Wikipedia and most other sources will state that GM’s Impact (the EV1’s prototype) grew out of GM’s Sunraycer project. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

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Here are 10 of the electric vehicles GM might (or will) build on its Ultrium foundation

Green Car Reports

Under its Design Dome, part of its Warren Tech Center and where concept cars have been prepared and vehicles—even like the EV1—have been designed and developed since 1955, GM provided a sketch to media and investors Wednesday of how its Ultium electric propulsion strategy will take form in actual production-bound vehicles.

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Modern electric cars at 20: from EV1 to Bolt EV, where are we now?

Green Car Reports

Twenty years ago today, the very first GM EV1 electric cars were delivered to 40 lessees in California in a blaze of publicity. Since then, plug-in electric vehicles have seen more than their share of ups and downs.

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End of an era: Mitsubishi likely to stop making the i-MiEV electric car

Green Car Reports

What was the first mass-produced electric vehicle, after the GM EV1? The Mitsubishi i-MiEV was, by many assessments, a pioneer as a dedicated electric vehicle. No, it’s not the Nissan Leaf. It was intended to be mass-produced, not a simple conversion, and widely available (at least in some markets).

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Here are 10 of the electric vehicles GM might (or will) build on its Ultium foundation

Green Car Reports

Under its Design Dome, part of its Warren Tech Center and where concept cars have been prepared and vehicles—even like the EV1—have been designed and developed since 1955, GM provided a sketch to media and investors Wednesday of how its Ultium electric propulsion strategy will take form in actual production-bound vehicles.

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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. Mr. Holden demanded the EV1’s immediate re-introduction before, or in exchange for, any Government bailout of GM. said Holden.

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