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VIA Motors’ Electric Pick-up Truck Enters Production

Guest Contributor — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:19:42 +0000

You know that the world is about to change when a plug in hybrid pick-up truck enters production. Yet this reality has come to fruition, the truck itself being produced by VIA Motors, and apparently already 40 of them completed. Their marketing team has come to the conclusion that interest in the electric car is […]

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VIA Motors’ First Plug-In Hybrid Electric Trucks Going to Fleets

Benji Jerew — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:07:13 +0000

VIA VTRUX, a lineup of full-size plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is, at the moment, the only ones of their kind being mass-produced and, thanks to a $20 million contract, they’ll soon be rolling in droves in Southern California. Pickup trucks are one of the biggest sellers in the United States, which means that improving fuel […]

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Teva Motors: Young Electric Truck Company has Big Plans

Benji Jerew — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:42:02 +0000

If you haven’t heard of Teva Motors, that’s OK, because they’ve only been a company since last year, but they have big plans for their new electric truck. Doesn’t VIA Motors already have an electric truck? Well, sort of, but not as big as this. Teva Motors’ new electric truck is aimed at short-range delivery […]

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Bob Lutz Tells CNBC He Believes Electric Vehicles Will Prevail

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:15:57 +0000

Bob Lutz may have never thought liking electric cars ten years ago – yet a recent interview and his involvement in VIA Motors, an electric truck manufacturing company, show he also digs Tesla Motors and Fisker (which he wants to help). The interview, given to CNBC on Friday, outlined Lutz’s appreciation for what Tesla is […]

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VIA Motors’ Big Hybrid Truck Lineup Revealed at 2013 NAIAS

Benji Jerew — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:24:00 +0000

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”

Benji Jerew — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:14:15 +0000

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”

Benji Jerew — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 06:44:29 +0000

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

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:22:04 +0000

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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