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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

They’ve seen Super Bowl ads for the GMC Hummer EV , or heard news about the lengthy, painful Chevrolet Bolt EV battery recall. Roll back the clock to the dark days of 2009, when two of the three US automakers collapsed into bankruptcy and were restructured by the White House Auto Task Force in the early days of the first Obama administration.

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Accessing Pixs of the "Spirit of DC" and LOTS of Other Plug-ins from the Inaugural Parade West: Plug In, America! in Santa Monica, 17 Jan 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

We even had an all-electric Hummer H2. All 74 vehicles that had signed up for the 2-mile parade through downtown Santa Monica showed up. More coverage here. www.PluginAmerica.org. The moral of this story is that EVs can meet any need.

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"Spirit" and the First EVer in the World Plug-in Parade in Santa Monica, California - 17 January 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Recap: Plug In America's Inaugural Parade With 100-percent participation, Plug In America pronounced its inaugural plug-in parade a total success, confident that President Obama himself will hear the message the event's participants sent: America needs one million plug-in vehicles by 2012 and 10 million by 2016.

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Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

Creative Greenius

Because they were so busy scamming people into buying planet-killing Hummers, Expeditions, Tahoes, Suburbans and other “the joke is on us&# vehicles, they ran their own business into the ground. . “It’s about time,&# says the Creative Greenius. “And shut that annoying kid up, will you?!&#.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

AutoblogGreen bloggers (30 days) # Blogger Posts Cmts 1 Jeremy Korzeniewski 123 4 2 Sebastian Blanco 111 11 3 Sam Abuelsamid 107 9 4 Domenick Yoney 32 0 5 Xavier Navarro 21 0 6 Jonathon Ramsey 1 0 7 Gary Witzenburg 1 0 8 Chris Paukert 1 0 Most Commented On (7 days) Obama outlines high-speed rail plan for U.S. (61) a key Randy C.

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Cadillac’s ambitious move to an all-electric luxury brand by 2030

Charged EVs

Meanwhile, cells for the small number of Ultium-based EVs GM builds this year, including not only the Cadillac Lyriq but the GMC Hummer EV, will come from a low-volume pilot production line set up at GM’s Tech Center in Warren, Michigan. The US Department of Energy will loan the company $2.5

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

AutoblogGreen bloggers (30 days) # Blogger Posts Cmts 1 Jeremy Korzeniewski 129 4 2 Sebastian Blanco 117 15 3 Sam Abuelsamid 111 10 4 Domenick Yoney 32 0 5 Xavier Navarro 22 0 6 Jonathon Ramsey 1 0 7 Gary Witzenburg 1 0 8 Chris Paukert 1 0 Most Commented On (7 days) Obama outlines high-speed rail plan for U.S. (62)

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