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GM electric vans, synthetic gasoline pollution, Best Car To Buy cutting-room floor: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

GM has started establishing a franchise dealer network for its electric vans. And why did some of this year’s EVs and PHEVs not make the Best Car To Buy shortlist? Synthetic gasoline might not be cheaper or cleaner. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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GM electric vans, synthetic gasoline pollution, Best Car To Buy cutting-room floor: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

GM has started establishing a franchise dealer network for its electric vans. And why did some of this year’s EVs and PHEVs not make the Best Car To Buy shortlist? Synthetic gasoline might not be cheaper or cleaner. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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All the EVs (and one PHEV) you can buy with 0% financing this September [update]

Baua Electric

If that’s you, and you’ve been waiting for interest rates to drop, you’re in luck: there’s a bunch of great EVs you can buy with 0% financing this month! Chevrolet Silverado EV Chevy Silverado EV; via GM. Now that you can buy one with 0% financing for 60 months? I might buy (another) one, anyway.

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2025 Q5 PHEV returns, remains Audi’s lone plug-in hybrid

Baua Electric

Split among three trim levels, PHEV Q5 prices range from $59,795 to $67,995, including $1,295 in destination. That buys a turbo-4 five-seat crossover with a 17.9-kwh It also buys one of the very few PHEVs that qualifies for a federal tax credit of $3,750. seconds, and a top speed of 130 mph.

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UC Davis ITS study suggests hastening consumer adoption of plug-ins will require innovation on the sales side

Green Car Congress

A study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis finds that buyers of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) are substantially less satisfied with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles—with the notable exception of Tesla buyers. In some cases, dealers outright discouraged PEV purchases.

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Personal: Chevy Volt—Still Electric After All These Years

Clean Fleet Report

It’s now what’s know as an orphan car—no longer in production as GM moves to full electrics. I love several things about the Volt that tipped my decision to buy out the lease and keep on driving—mostly on electricity: The Lectron charger has style and speed. Its second oil change was forced as part of the hand-over from the dealer.

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

Green Car Congress

CPI) shortly after GM selected CPI and its parent LG Chem as the provider for the Li-ion batteries for the Extended Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) Chevy Volt. (GM GM plans to handle module and pack assembly itself, earlier post.) For a PHEV CPI expects ten to twenty cells to make up a module and ten to twenty modules make up the pack.

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