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My eBook Recharging the Car

In December 2006, I was given a preview of a concept car that Chevrolet would reveal in a few weeks time at the Detroit Auto Show. Those of us in attendance didn’t get to see the car’s styling but we did learn about the interesting new powertrain architecture that Bob Lutz and Jon Lauckner had sketched out as a follow-on to GM’s last electric car, the EV1.

Over the next couple of weeks I wrote a series of articles that would be published at the same time the car was unveiled but that was just the beginning. Over the next four years, as engineers , designers and technicians at General Motors and its suppliers worked around the clock to transform the concept into the first mass-produced extended range electric vehicle, I wrote hundreds of thousands of words about the process on AutoblogGreen, Autoblog and GreenFuelsForecast.

Following the production launch of the Chevrolet Volt in late 2010, I began to compile most of those articles along with relevant articles about other similar vehicles into an e-Book. I’ve now published that anthology as Recharging the Car. It’s available now from Amazon’s Kindle Store, Barnes & Noble’s Nook store and as soon as Apple finishes its approval process it will be in the iBooks store.

Update: It’s now in the iBooks store for those of you using iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches


Back in December 2006, I was still relatively new on the automotive journalism scene… 4

Back in December 2006, I was still relatively new on the automotive journalism scene but I got invited to a General Motors background briefing in New York City. Jon Lauckner, Beth Lowery, Tony Posawatz and others from GM spent the next two hours describing a new kind of electric (please, please don't call it a hybrid) car that was designed to overcome the problem of "range anxiety."

Three weeks later Bob Lutz rolled onto the stage at Detroit's Cobo Hall in the original Chevrolet Volt concept. Over the next four years I had the opportunity to talk many of the leaders on the Volt development team, and drive various prototypes while writing hundreds of stories for AutoblogGreen, Autoblog and GreenFuelsForecast. I've now compiled much of that material along with articles about related technology and concepts into a new eBook.

Recharging the Car is now available on the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/charging-into-the-future-sam-abuelsamid/1104806909?ean=2940013095755&itm=1&usri=abuelsamid) stores. As retail availability of the Volt expands nationwide over the next few months, it might worth reviewing how the Volt came to be and how it works.

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If you want to know about how to build wealth and grow the economy who would you…

If you want to know about how to build wealth and grow the economy who would you take advice from? Political ideologues llike Paul Ryan and Michelle Bachmann or one of the most successful investors of the past century, Warren Buffet?

Buffett has frequently spoken out against Republican tax policy over the past decade, particularly payroll and estate taxes. In an op-ed today in the New York Times Buffet lashes out against the idea that the wealthy won't invest if they have pay taxes on their winnings.

Buffett acknowledges that despite paying nearly $7 million in taxes in 2010, it was not nearly enough. His tax payments amounted to just 17.4 percent of his taxable income at the same time that the 20 people that work in his office paid out an average of 36 percent of their income. Buffett calls for an immediate tax increase on all incomes over $1 million and an even larger increase on incomes over $10 million.

This country would be a lot better off we listen Warren Buffett right now than anyone in the GOP leadership.

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We mega-rich should not continue to get extraordinary tax breaks while most Americans struggle to make ends meet.

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