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DOE Turns Down V-Vehicle Loan Applications

Green Car Congress

The company’s vehicle design team is led by Tom Matano, who is best known as the “father of the Mazda Miata”. Tags: Brief. Varasano, a former Oracle Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton executive, founded VVC in 2006. VVC has successfully closed two rounds of funding totaling more than $85 million.

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Startup V-Vehicle Company to Assemble selects Monroe, La., to begin assembling new automobiles and create 1,400 jobs

Green Car Congress

VVC’s Director of Design is Tom Matano, who led the design of the Mazda Miata. Tags: Brief. VVC says that it will produce a high-quality, “environmentally friendly” and fuel-efficient car for the US market. VVC will assemble the cars at the former Guide Corp. plant in Ouachita Parish, which has been closed for years.

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Worst Cars Ever: TIME and Dan Neil Trash EV1

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If we are very lucky, some company will come out with a car with the decade-old EV1 specs considered unmarketable in this peculiar smackdown - 140 mile range without gasoline, miata-sized, fast. Tags: la times ev1 dan neil. Does anyone out there truly believe this car couldn't sell for $50,000 or more now?

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