Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2007

, is interviewed by Matt Kelley of Next Gear in front of an EV1 that made an appearance at RenewableLa put on by by Energy Efficiency Solar. I gather GM really did destroy the molds and sever relationships with suppliers, but it is so clear that if they simply re-released the EV1 today it would still be a show stopper.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

and what she thinks has been learned from the whole GM EV1 experience. Sexton is the Founder of the non-profit Lightning Rod Foundation, and a former General Motors EV1 Specialist. GM is hosting a webchat with Chelsea Sexton tomorrow, 29 April, at 2 p.m. EDT to discuss the Chevy Volt, Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Along with a host of the filthy, the ugly and the dangerous, Time and Dan Neil declare the EV1 one of the 50 worst cars ever. Had the EV1s been sold to consumers rather than leased, confiscated, and destroyed, they'd be very in demand. Tags: la times ev1 dan neil.

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Electrek

MARCH 3, 2025

Heres what we know about what will likely be called the Kia EV1 when it arrives. With the growing demand for more affordable EVs, Kia wants to be the one to offer them. Kia said we may even see it at its next EV Day.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2010

Bereisa led GM’s EV1 project as chief engineer. He was responsible for the technology development and production design of the EV1 electric traction system, power inverter, battery pack and charger. Stempel, who oversaw the introduction of the EV1 when Chairman and CEO of GM, is a past EDTA Hall of Fame inductee.).

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 26, 2020

Almost a decade after the first modern, mainstream, electric cars went on sale, myths and misconceptions persist. Power survey released Tuesday suggests that may be partly because most Americans still haven't driven an EV. The majority of Americans surveyed—70%—had never been in an electric car. That figure is a great reminder.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Its test numbers shatter a title held by GM’s EV1 dating back to the late ’90s. The post Lightyear 0 solar EV dethrones GM’s EV1 as the most aerodynamic production car ever made appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2020

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

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Green Car Reports

MAY 8, 2022

While we widely think of the General Motors EV1—or its preceding Impact concept car—as starting the era of the electric car. But there were others in that era, that followed a similar formula and might have potentially come to market earlier. One of them came from Nissan.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

With this, there are two new electric-only modes: EV1 and EV2. In EV1, the transmission is in the first continuously-variable mode EVT1 with both brake-clutch CB12R and CB5 applied. Overall, EV1 has a higher output torque capability, with better efficiency in the lower speed, higher torque region. —Yang et al.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 8, 2020

The electric car wasn't invented by Tesla with its Roadster, or by GM with the EV1. It goes back more than a century, with a long list of hopefuls hindered from widespread production by a complicated but familiar set of factors. The 1959 Charles Town-About was one of those hopefuls.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2022

Covered by 11 patents and four publications, the development of Ultium energy recovery traces its inception back to GM’s first EV, the EV1, in the late 1990s, when GM engineers first developed an EV heat pump. Ultium energy recovery is available on all current Ultium vehicles and planned for future Ultium vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

The technology behind its electric vehicle charging solutions emerged after AeroVironment’s substantial contributions to the development of the GM Impact, the concept car for General Motors’ EV1.

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EV Solutions

JANUARY 9, 2024

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

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2011

When you buy an electric car, you will most likely need a charging station. As buyers start to bring home plug-in cars, they will also expect their dealer to help them acquire and install a 240-Volt charging station (technically known as an EVSE, though few people call them that). Startup Fisker Automotive, whose first 2011 Karma plug-in hybrid.

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The General Motors EV1 still exerts a strange fascination for electric-car fans and civilians alike. Fascination has only grown, as shown by reaction to the image of an EV1 in the. Its sleek, aerodynamic shape and pioneering all-electric drive (despite an initial range of only about 70 miles) make it an important vehicle in U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2011

The Magna charge unit is a.paddle for the EV1.and I noticed [a charging outlet] was quite hard for me to find for the Volt here in Pasadena, finally I found one in the Hilton Hotel. There was a Magna charge unit.with dust on.but was operational. and I found the DC connection, which Ford I think used in the 90s and the French vehicle used.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2020

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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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2020

Long before the Toyota Prius and the GM EV1 were conceived, an U.S. company not otherwise known for making cars showed a most unusual vehicle possibly described as a progenitor of plug-in hybrids. The company was Briggs & Stratton. And the car, first shown on the heels of the 1979 oil crisis and simply called the Hybrid, had six wheels.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2020

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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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 24, 2011

Toyota has passed on the opportunity to be the plug-in leader, given up the lead they'd accrued from the RAV4 EV and the Prius as much as GM postponed its rendevous with destiny when they jettisoned the EV1. Someone from Toyota once told me they are "never first, always best." Time will tell.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 5, 2019

If your historical knowledge of electric cars goes back to the first Tesla Roadster, the GM EV1 or, perhaps, one of the many intriguing manufacturer conversions from the 1980s or ‘90s, you have many decades of what-ifs to catch up on.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Twenty years ago today, the very first GM EV1 electric cars were delivered to 40 lessees in California in a blaze of publicity. That first EV1 was a high-tech two-seater created specifically to meet California's then-current zero-emission vehicle rules.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2011

OBC’s principal activities are licensing its advanced battery technologies (including NiMH and Li-ion technologies), participating in joint development programs to support application of these technologies, and manufacturing mixed-metal hydroxide cathode materials for sale to its licensees for use in battery production.

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If General Motors' EV1 had featured in the Disney Pixar animated film Cars, we can't imagine it would have been the happiest of characters. It might well have spent a little time complaining about its friends all being crushed back in 1999, and who could blame it?

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2018

It built the Silver Volt, a plug-in hybrid based on a contemporary Buick station wagon—16 years before the GM EV1. Electric Auto Corporation receives that distinction for their car built in 1980, at the height of America's second gas crisis. CHECK OUT: Modern electric cars.

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

1996 GM EV1 Meets 2011 Chevrolet Volt - What Could Have Been In-Between? Part 2 Of InsideEV's Interview with GM EV1 Marketing Director John Dabels continues. Editor's Note: If you missed part one on the behind-the-scenes 411 on General Motor's EV1 project, you can check it out here.

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It is hard to be an EV fan and not know a little about the EV1. Whether you were exposed to the EV1 through the 2006 documentary “Who Killed the Electri Car”, or if you have been a fan right from the beginning. I recently had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with John Dabels, the Marketing Director of the EV1.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

Pete Savagian, who served in critical electric drive engineering roles at GM since the EV1, has left General Motors to become the VP Engineering at Faraday Future. In a posting on Linked In, Savagian said that he will lead Faraday Future’s engineering operations for powertrain, battery and related high voltage systems.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 25, 2007

He adds: "I'd probably still have an EV1 if GM hadn't forced me to give it back. Let's not forget, as GM hypes the Volt , 1000 140-range NiMH EV1 electric cars rot in the Arizona sun. Tags: electric car ev1 RAV4 EV.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2011

The Volt was intended not only to be the first production plug-in electric car from General Motors--erasing memories of the ill-fated EV1--but to serve as a technology halo car for the just-bailed-out. One year ago today, the very first 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car was delivered to a retail buyer, in Denville, New Jersey.

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Electrek

MAY 18, 2021

I guess “EV1” was taken? Seriously, though, folks, today a big day for Kia, with the unveiling of the new Kia EV6 crossover, the brand’s first-ever dedicated battery electric vehicle.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 11, 2009

Ex-EV1 drivers will be among those taking advantage of their first opportunity to get back in an electric car. Tags: bmw mini e ev1. The leasees, who will have the car for one year, are chomping at the bit. Bill Nye the science guy will put aside his gas-guzzling Prius for twelve months. Ken Bensinger reports on a gathering in LA.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 14, 2007

Other than one stupid paragraph about the EV1 and RAV4 EV that repeats the conventional received wisdom on why we have no plug-in choices - "GM EV1 and the electric Toyota RAV4 struck mainstream customers as geeky, slow and impractical" (really? Mainstream customers knew about the EV1 and RAV4 EV? The EV1 was slow?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2013

Among his other career achievements are launching the lithium battery business for Delphi Electronics, including the Segway battery pack; project lead for production and battery pack design of GM’s EV1 electric car; and VP of Transportation at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI).

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InsideEVs

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

It will be the electric equivalent of the Kia Picanto, the popular subcompact hatchback available in Europe.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2013

Will this be the car that finally makes the ultra-aerodynamic and futuristic GM EV1 electric car look old-fashioned? Today, VW Group took the wraps off the production version of the Volkswagen XL1, a turbodiesel plug-in hybrid two-seater that will be its most fuel-efficient model ever offered.

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