Posts with the tag of Detroit

When Bob Met Elon … and Chris

January 13, 2010 – 9:05 am

The Revenge team filmed a historic meeting in Detroit today — getting GM Vice President and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk together on camera for the first time.
More details after the jump :
Detroit’s Electric Avenue: The Street of Dreams?
From the NY Times post:
“Mr. Paine, who produced the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” arranged the [...]

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GM’s Volt Program = $700m

December 28, 2009 – 2:14 pm

GM to invest $700m in Volt rechargeable electric car
By Richard Kessler for Recharge News
“GM is spending $336m to upgrade the Hamtramck plant; $202m for a new plant in Flint, north of Detroit, that will build 1.4 litre engine-generators; $43m for a plant in Brownstown Township outside Detroit that will manufacture battery packs; $37m for a [...]

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GM puts $336m into Volt plant

December 8, 2009 – 3:57 pm

GM to invest $336 million in Volt plant
General Motors Co will invest $336 million in a Detroit-area plant to produce its heavily anticipated Chevrolet Volt electric car beginning next year, the No. 1 U.S. automaker said on Monday.

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At Home with Bob Lutz

August 13, 2009 – 10:37 am

We went to Detroit recently to see Bob Lutz.  In these turbulent times, we wanted to know how the Vice Chair of GM was getting along.
We found Bob smoking a cigar on his Segway.   Which was definitely my favorite visual of the trip. Lutz lives in a spread that can best be described as [...]

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Chris Paine on the Ron Reagan Show

November 24, 2008 – 6:50 pm

Air America’s “The Ron Reagan Show” aired an episode on November 24th, 2008 about what to do about “The Big Three” automakers.  Chris Paine joined Ron live with his views on the bailout for “The Big Three”, along with thoughts on future innovations in the industry. You can listen to the entire half hour [...]

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CNN namechecks ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’

November 23, 2008 – 9:35 pm

Check out this CNN segment from Nov 20th 2008.  What next for GM, the Volt, and the director of ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’ …

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GM Detroit Shoot (1 of 2)

October 4, 2008 – 1:35 am

General Motors invited me to Detroit to speak on a panel at its 100th anniversary along with a small group of other “outside voices”.  Since GM’s Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz planned to unveil the Chevy Volt production prototype, we decided to take our film crew.  We knew we were being pulled into GM’s PR [...]

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