Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2009

In response to the Presidential Auto Task Force Report that concluded that the plug-in Chevrolet Volt was unlikely to be commercially successful in the short-term due to its cost ( earlier post ), Plug In America is proposing a plan to make GM’s Chevy Volt and other plug-in cars more affordable. Chelsea Sexton. Chelsea Sexton.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Towing an EV1 with an E-Tron helps deliver a reality check on towing. The 2020 Toyota Highlander Hybrid tops the efficiency scales if you can’t plug in. California’s permitting process for charging stations still lags. And electric vehicles are much cleaner than they were less than a decade ago.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. Think Tank’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key. Like Paul MacCready’s original design for the Impact that established the world’s lowest drag coefficient of.195,

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

In early November, an LA Times story heralding GM’s resurrection of the plug-in car was carried by newspapers worldwide. GM announced it will show some sort of plug-in car at the Detroit Auto Show in January. Speculation has focused on the possibility of a serial plug-in hybrid. Tags: GM plug-in hybrid.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

Plug-in cars are inevitable. The other carmakers domestic and foreign have less firm but well press-released plans for plug-ins. Veteran automakers, oil companies, and federal and state governments have been both the prime movers and obstacles to plug-in cars in the past and they remain so today. Will we get our money’s worth?

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 4, 2007

GM today announced two contracts to "design and test lithium-ion batteries" for use in the Saturn Vue Plug-in Hybrid announced last month at the LA Auto Show. Johnson Controls/SAFT, the huge battery company at which President Bush first publicly announced his support for plug-in hybrids, received one contract.

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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. She is one of the key individuals featured in the 2006 film, “ 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. He knows we need to move toward plug-in cars, and he knows the "perfect" electric car won't drop down from heaven one day. Tags: la times ev1 dan neil.

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Electric Cars Report

JUNE 23, 2023

Mazda Motor Corporation started mass production of the Mazda MX-30 e‑Skyactiv R-EV1 for the European market at its Ujina Plant No. 1 in Hiroshima. The MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV is Mazda’s first mass-production vehicle with a rotary engine in 11 years since the Mazda RX-8 was discontinued in June 2012. Mazda has cumulatively produced over 1.99

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2018

Most of the U.S. was unaware that modern electric cars got their start in California between 1996 and 2002. Many of the earliest owners and EV advocates from those days remain involved 20 years later, though their names may be familiar only to a small group of activists. One of those people is Paul Scott, who's been part of several important.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2011

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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2011

During his presentation on challenges for battery development for an extended range electric vehicle to the AABC event in Pasadena this past week, Roland Matthé, GM’s technical manager for the Voltec Battery System, as an aside touched on another challenge: finding an appropriate plug.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

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. He didn't give a time frame for the plug-in, but said it will take "several years" to bring one to market. Tags: GM plug-in hybrid Saturn. for complete story: [link].

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2015

The Volt-with-a-V is Chevy''s now-established plug-in hybrid compact hatchback. Green Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Chevrolet Bolt Chevrolet Bolt EV EV1 Future Cars plug-in cars' That''s Bolt-with-a-B, not Volt-with-a-V. DON''T MISS: Why ''Bolt'' Is A Really Terrible Name For Chevy''s Electric Car An all-new.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

Interest in plug-in cars of all sorts is real and growing. Regardless, GM ought to be producing the Volt now with the best available batteries, a PHEV-version of the NiMH in every hybrid on the road and which took the EV1 140 miles between charges. Tags: GM electric car plug-in hybrid chevy volt fuel cell.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founding EVA chapter connects with entrepreneurial stars. Electric Auto Association Silicon Valley (EAASV), established in 1967 as the original Electric Auto (now Vehicle) Association, has a long history of attracting members and presenting speakers who have gone on to become tech and transportation luminaries. It’s a very strong spirit.”

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Lots of ink on GM's plug-in hybrid announcement. With headlines like "GM Promises Plug-in Hybrid," Waggoner's statement in LA moves plug-in cars back into the public discussion of petroleum alternatives. George Bush, oilman, seems to understand the commonsense benefits of plug-in hybrids. Irony abounds.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

Inductive charging with a paddle-type connector was used in a number of earlier EVs, notably GM’s EV1, the Nissan Hypermini EV, and the Toyota RAV4. Traditional magnetic induction, such as used in an electric toothbrush or electric transformers, uses conductive coils to transmit power wirelessly over very short distances.

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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.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2021

But I was still stoked to exhibit the car at every LA area EV Expo, Earth Day Event and Plug-In spectacular. That’s me on January 16, 2017, with my brand new Chevy Bolt EV Premier edition in my garage at home. I paid $47,000 in cash for that car as a #YearOfJoe gift to myself after a decade of environmental work and achievement.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2013

a developer of technologies enabling the conversion of existing fleet vehicles into plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, completed a $3-million financing with United Fleet Financing, LLC, through a private placement offering and mezzanine financing. Echo Automotive, Inc., —Dan Kennedy, Echo’s CEO.

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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 Reports

JULY 31, 2017

Among the Detroit Three automakers, General Motors has a quarter of a century of electric-car experience, from the legendary EV1 to the 238-mile Chevrolet Bolt EV. Ford launched hybrids in 2004, before any other maker, but its battery-electric efforts thus far have been strictly compliance cars.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 6, 2008

Rechargeit.org , Google.org's campaign for plug-in cars, has issued a call for short videos. Jeff U'ren drove an EV1 for three years.well, the vid tells the tale. Tags: rechargeit.org google.org battery electric car plug-in car. If you've got one, explain how it works for you. If you want one, explain why.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? Real Life EV Stories A Case for Electricity Plug In America Positions Energy Policy Frequently Asked Questions About Plug-in Buses Who Killed the Electric Car? 3 CARB Date with Destiny Move CARB Forward Plug In America Podcasts! Where Can I Buy One? 4 Great Gifts!

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

He drove one of only a few hundred original GM EV1 two-seat electric cars almost 20 years ago. Bill Nye, better known as "The Science Guy" on the popular PBS children's series that bears his name, loves electric cars.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

GM Concept Car T here has been a rumor that General Motors might have a plug-in to show at the North American International Car Show in Detroit this coming January. GM likely to launch new plug-in hybrid Reuters Nov 10, 2006 DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. Join Plug In Partners today. Honda Motor Co. Ford Motor Co.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

I have seen the future my friends and it looks exactly like a 76 degree January day filled with beautiful people driving gorgeous plug-in hybrid and plug-in electric cars. The Plug-Ins are coming and you should wait till they get here before buying your next new car. Few have done more for the Plug-In Car movement.

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EV Life

AUGUST 4, 2023

General Motors was one of the original pioneers of electric cars, introducing the EV1 in 1996 and the game-changing Volt in 2010. Chevrolet has continued that trend in the last few years—emerging as a major leader in the electric vehicle industry. The EUV is available in two different trims, the LT and Premier.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 8, 2007

Just two weeks ago Free Press auto critic Mark Phelan was twisting Mr. Paine's words to justify GM killing the EV1. Now Phelan , GM, Paine and Chelsea Sexton, Plug In America's Executive Director, all seem to be on the same page. ," is attending the Detroit Auto Show. And he's not the pariah-in-residence. So is Detroit.

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EV Life

MARCH 7, 2023

GM has been one of the pioneers of electric vehicles, introducing the General Motors EV1 back in 1996 and the groundbreaking Chevy Volt in 2010. Today, Chevrolet has some of the best EV options on the market, with more scheduled for release in the next few years.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 3, 2011

But one shouldn't have to know Bob to plug in your new car. I'd hoped the City would find a way to open up the opportunity for the people beginning to obtain plug-in cars to more freely use these rare, public charge stations. Publicly plugging in is an act of coming out, of civic responsibility.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

In fact, some of the engineers working in Indiana worked on General Motors EV1, which is the subject of our first film,&# said Paine. Electric cars have zero emissions and charging is easy — it’s a matter of plugging it into the closest socket. Director Chris Paine was in Indianapolis this week to film for ‘Revenge.’

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2016

Electric-car advocates are often passionate, with memories long enough to remember GM's 2004 destruction of its pioneering fleet of EV1 electric cars.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. Paine followed the plight of his EV1 to its (literally) crushing end. home as “the Plug-In Mecca&# to tell this EV story right.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 6, 2008

They are selling larger, less fuel-efficient vehicles than ever; they slap a hybrid drive into a $100,000 Lexus, achieve minimal fuel savings, and earn more green kudos all while continuing to spread disinformation about the value of true electrification by advertising their hybrids as half electric cars "you never have to plug in."

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Audi RS models – performance flagships set to pick up plug-in hybrid tech as early as 2021. All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Here is the comprehensive list of every new EV due in the next few years. READ MORE: Every electric ute and pick-up coming soon!

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