Posts Tagged Via Motors

VIA Motors’ Big Hybrid Truck Lineup Revealed at 2013 NAIAS

Posted by Benji Jerew in Hybrid vehicles on January 16, 2013

Bob Lutz, General Motors [GM] ex-vice chairman, is now heading up efforts to produce a series of extended-range electric vehicles [eREV] that are nothing like the Chevy Volt he championed whilst in the GM circle. Recently, he mentioned he should have started bigger, and bigger is what he’s done at VIA Motors. No one disputes [...]


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Bob Lutz on E-REV Technology – “I Should Have Started Bigger”

Posted by Benji Jerew in Car industry, Electric Vehicles, Green Policy, Hybrid vehicles on January 15, 2013

I’m not sure how to take this, really, but Bob Lutz isn’t too impressed with the vehicles he pushed into production a couple years ago, namely the Chevy Volt with extended-range electric vehicle [E-REV] technology. “If I had my time again at GM then I would have started with the Cadillac Escalade for the range-extender [...]


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Bob Lutz – VIA Motors’ Full Size X-Truck Gets 100 MPGe, “Makes Prius Look Like a Gas-Guzzler”

Posted by Benji Jerew in Electric Vehicles on January 13, 2013

Would we ever have expected to hear the words “monster truck” and “100 MPGe” used in the same article, much less describing one vehicle? Apparently this kind of comparison is perfectly fine for Bob Lutz, former General Motors Vice Chairman, and he used it in a video sneaking a peak at the new VIA Motors [...]


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Via Motors and PG&E Unveiling Extended-Range Electric Trucks, Vans and SUVs

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles on January 10, 2012

GM seems to have hit the right button when it comes to electric cars, or, at least, extended range EVs. Or so thinks Bob Lutz, former GM executive, who now joined VIA Motors, a company whose aim is to rebuild America’s most loved trucks, SUVs and vans, but propel them by an electric motor instead [...]


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