Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

General Motors will invest $23.5 million for additional production of vehicle electrification components on the site of the Baltimore Transmission Plant, site of its electric motor manufacturing facility the first in the US to be operated by a major automaker. We’ll have more to say about specific products later.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Ioxus will incorporate AEC products into its current offerings to deliver energy-efficient systems solutions for hybrid electric vehicles, wind pitch control and other energy storage applications. Tags: Brief. Ultracapacitor company Ioxus, Inc.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The beleaguered automotive industry in the United States has taken its fair share of knocks over the last 12 months but none were more shocking than when one of the oldest and most well-respected brands in motoring – General Motors (GM) – slipped into bankruptcy earlier this year. So can GM be a success again?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

an Ann Arbor-based developer of next-generation lithium-ion batteries, announced the combined investment of $4.2M by General Motors Ventures ($3.2 These investments by General Motors Ventures and Itochu Technology Ventures bring us not only capital, but partnerships that will speed our commercialization efforts.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2009

The 8 kWh battery pack for the new 2011 Buick PHEV crossover vehicle is prepared for testing at the General Motors Tech Center in Warren, Michigan. General Motors will debut its two-mode plug-in hybrid technology—originally intended to appear first in a Saturn VUE, prior to that brand’s sale—in a new Buick crossover vehicle in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2009

will spend an estimated ¥20-30 billion (US$207-310 million) to boost production capacity for lithium-ion batteries for hybrid light-duty vehicles, targeting a 70-fold increase by 2015. Hitachi has already received orders for enough lithium ion batteries for 100,000 hybrid autos that General Motors Corp.

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APRIL 23, 2010

million loan with Fisker Automotive for the development and production of two lines of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Fisker, a startup based in southern California, expects to manufacture the Karma and Project NINA lines at a recently shuttered General Motors factory in Wilmington, Delaware. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

In a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Friday, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said that the company plans to begin mass production of electric vehicles in the US in 2012, followed by US production of fuel cell vehicles in 2015. For comparable efforts by General Motors, see earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2010

Tags: Chevrolet Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news general motors Chevrolet Volt Chevrolet Volt production Chevrolet Volt release Electric cars extended range electric vehicles. Marketing [.].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

General Motors will invest $336 million in the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to begin production of the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle in 2010. engine-generator from Flint. —Jon Lauckner, GM vice president of global product planning. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

SAIC Motor Corp., SAIC) and General Motors Co. (GM) Last year, SGMW became China’s first vehicle manufacturer to top 1 million units of sales and production. Tags: China Electric (Battery) Engines Hybrids Plug-ins Vehicle Manufacturers. It has already reached this mark in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

GM has cancelled its recently announced compact Buick crossover, which would have offered the plug-in hybrid system originally targeted for the Saturn VUE. And we decided that the important plug-in hybrid technology would be applied to another vehicle, at no delay, that we’ll discuss in the very near future. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The Mississippi State University EcoCAR team chose to design an EREV hybrid with a 21.3 GM turbodiesel engine and 75 kW UQM generator in a series plug-in configuration. similar to those conducted on production vehicles. kWh battery pack coupled with a GM 110 kW Electric Traction Motor and 75 kW UQM generator.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2009

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. We have come a long way in a year’s time. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

The models were the Shenchi Brand 4-seat battery-electric car; the Shenchi Brand 11-seat fuel cell vehicle; the Shanghai Brand fuel cell car; the Shanghai Brand hybrid; the Buick LaCrosse hybrid; and the UNDP fuel cell bus. The plug-in hybrid system developed by SAIC has entered the prototype-making stage. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 11, 2010

The Chevrolet Volt isn’t the only range extended vehicle under wraps from General Motors – now the company has announced plans to produce a Cadillac Converj in the same mould.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 13, 2010

The Revenge team filmed a historic meeting in Detroit today — getting GM Vice President and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk together on camera for the first time. He is reportedly in production on a sequel, “The Revenge of the Electric Car.” s and a prime mover behind the development of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

General Motors Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre separately announced that Chevrolet will add five Texas electric utilities and five Northeast utilities to a Department of Energy development and demonstration program that provides Volts and charging stations to key utilities. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids.

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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 Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2009

The Ohio State University took first place out of 17 universities in the US and Canada that competed in the first major milestone of this three-year competition sponsored by the US Department of Energy, General Motors, and many others including the Government of Canada. The Ohio State’s design was powered by a 1.8-liter

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

The third phase of a SDG&E multi-year in-use study on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles showed that plug-in hybrids offer significant improvements in gas mileage and reductions in emissions when compared with standard hybrid-electric and gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. One of SDG&E’s converted PHEVs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Production forecasts from IHS. Their definition for alternative powertrains/fuels eliminates pure gasoline and diesel powertrains/fuels, but does include hybridization of those fuels. hybrid engines that use gasoline or diesel fuel). Eliminating hybrids from the. Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Volkswagen AG and Suzuki Motor Corporation have signed a framework agreement to establish a close long-term strategic partnership. The two companies said that they complement each other in terms of product portfolio, global distribution and manufacturing capacities. Tags: Market Background Vehicle Manufacturers. Osamu Suzuki.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The only upgrade is the Plaid version that features even faster acceleration from three motors, producing sub-two second 0-60 runs. Production of the Roadster, the company’s initial product, ended after deliveries totaling 2,500, but a new version of the Roadster is due at some point. There’s a new badge in town.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- General Motors Corp. (GM) 1 auto maker is accelerating its efforts to meet the challenge by being the first to offer a plug-in hybrid and by expanding its production of biofuel vehicles. Tags: GM plug-in hybrid Saturn. GM) Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said Wednesday that the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

The MY2009 light truck market share is projected to be 49%, based on pre-model year production projections by automakers. Ford and General Motors are the two marketing groups that showed improvement in MY2008 and are projected to do so again in MY2009. Hybrids are projected to have 1.8%

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I wrote a few months ago about the Japanese and European carmakers teaming up with Asian and Euro battery manufacturers with $200-$400 million deals to build large production facilities that will soon be cranking out high volumes of LiIon batteries for plug-in cars. Industry consultants say U.S. Battery Makers Work to Power Up.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

automaker since Henry Ford’s Ford Motor debuted its shares in 1956. electric-car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles. automaker since Henry Ford’s Ford Motor debuted its shares in 1956.

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Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2009

Hitachi Limited in Japan is set to spend an estimated Y20-30billion to boost production capacity for lithium-ion batteries as it targets a 70-fold increase in production capacity by 2015. General Motors has contracted Hitachi to provide the cells for its second generation belt alternator starter mild hybrid system.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 4, 2008

General Motors invited me to Detroit to speak on a panel at its 100th anniversary along with a small group of other “outside voices&#. Since GM’s Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz planned to unveil the Chevy Volt production prototype, we decided to take our film crew. The roll out made waves with the international media.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The Chevrolet Volt has been deemed by many automotive analysts to be General Motors’ great hope – and it appears the company is ready to throw its financial weight by its production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2009

The GM Viability Determination notes that the company is in the early stages of an operational turnaround in which it has made material progress in a number of areas, including purchasing, product design, manufacturing, brand rationalization and its dealer network. The Volt is an extended range electric vehicle—i.e.,

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The Cadillac brand may be one of the most inspirational in motoring history, but its latest model promises to follow in the footsteps of a much more modern icon. Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars general motors Bob Lutz Cadillac Cadillac Converj Chevrolet Volt Chevy Volt range extended vehicle Voltec platform.

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I t wasn't that long ago that I remember a Chrysler ad that bragged about how its new Charger, with the big V 8, was a hybrid. Company bosses are said to be keen to put this system into production but no firm decisions will be made until the cost of batteries is reduced." it burned gas and rubber.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2009

After months of speculation about its future, General Motors Corporation has reached agreements with the US Treasury and the governments of Canada and Ontario for the creation of a new smaller and self-sustaining GM. The New GM is expected to launch in 60-90 days as a separate and independent company from the existing General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

Monthly new vehicle market share for hybrids. Hybrids had an especially good month, with reported sales jumping 31.8% Hybrid gains were largely due to an increase in Prius sales (up 29.7% to 19,173 units) and Ford hybrids (up 323% to 5,353 units). Monthly sales of hybrids. General Motors.

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