geely Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:01:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Polestar 2: The Swedish Competitor to Tesla Model 3 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/polestar-2-the-swedish-competitor-to-tesla-model-3-20180720/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/polestar-2-the-swedish-competitor-to-tesla-model-3-20180720/#respond Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:01:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=66242 Geely, the corporate parent of Volvo Cars, revealed two concept cars last year. They were based on their new Compact Modular Architecture EV chassis and were named 40.1 and 40.2. The 40.1 is now the compact SUV known as Volvo XC 40. It will be their first all-electric car. Another brand in this family is […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/polestar-2-the-swedish-competitor-to-tesla-model-3-20180720/feed/ 0 66242 More Bad News for Fisker Automotive, Geely Backs Out of the Bidding https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fisker-geely-backs-out-bidding-20130319/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fisker-geely-backs-out-bidding-20130319/#respond Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:32:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35040 Here’s more bad news for Fisker Automotive since Henrik Fisker resigned: Chinese Zhejiang Geely Holding Company has backed out of the bidding to acquire the flailing automomaker. Typically, money for development comes from a few places, investors, loans, or profits being a few major sources. Fisker Automotive started out with $528 million in loans from […]

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