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0Official: Bright Automotive gets dimmed, will shut down because of DOE loan program delays 1330549620
Bright Automotive will shut down after the maker of the extended-range plug-in utility vehicles said the federal government took too long to make good on its planned loans to the Michigan-based company, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing a letter company executive sent to U.S. Energy ...
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Official: Bright Automotive says it's ready to heed Obama's call for more jobs, just needs its loan approved 1327705200
Bright Automotive Chief Operating Officer Mike Donoughe invoked President Barack Obama's recent call for U.S. companies to create American jobs while developing alternative energy sources for transportation by requesting that Congress speed up the company's federal loan process. The company, which ...
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Video: RMI says clean cars are really "reinventing fire" [w/video] 1321894620
The Rocky Mountain Institute has worked on transportation projects before – see the Hypercar and its evolved kin, the Bright IDEA van, or Project Get Ready – so two the new videos from RMI aren't a surprise. What they are, though, is a refinement of the Institute's longstanding ...
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Great IDEA! Bright Automotive looking for 200 new employees 1294167660
Bright IDEA PHEV - Click above for high-res image galleryIt's not just upper-level execs that Bright Automotive is looking to bring on board. The Midwest company announced today it is hiring for 200 jobs in Southeast Michigan in 2011 to help make the Idea plug-in hybrid van a reality. What kind ... -
GM, Bright Automotive talk details about $5m investment, Idea van partnership 1280872920
Bright Idea PHEV van – Click above for high-res image galleryFollowing today's announcement that GM Venture would invest money into Indiana-based start-up Bright Automotive, we got a few more details about the partnership and the vehicle from Bright Automotive chairman and CEO Reuben ... -
GM Ventures invests in Bright Automotive for strategic partnership 1280850960
Bright Idea PHEV – Click above for high-res image galleryTwo months after establishing a new venture capital subsidiary, General Motors has made its first strategic investment with the announcement today that GM is hooking up with Bright Automotive. Bright has been showing a plug-in hybrid ... -
Is there trouble at Bright Automotive? Yes and no, as job cuts and new hires could now lead to profitibility 1275054960
Bright IDEA PHEV - Click above for high-res image galleryBright Automotive has not been able to drive the Idea plug-in hybrid van on the easiest road to market. A new set-back – from one perspective – was a number of layoffs and executive shuffling at the company this week. CEO ... -
Bright Automotive latest to get USPS contract for electric truck conversion 1267815780
The one contract from the United States Postal Service (USPS) to start bringing electric trucks to the large national fleet of Long Life Vehicles (LLVs) that we knew about went to Zap. That contract was for a single truck, and it looks like Bright Automotive has been awarded a similar deal. ...
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Bright Automotive announces eSolutions, army plug-in hybrid contract 1256749200
Bright IDEA PHEV - Click above for high-res image galleryBright Automotive is proud of the work they've done on the IDEA van, but the company has always intended to make the vehicle just one method of bringing greener transportation to the masses. As we learned from Bright's VP Corporate ... -
Quick Spin: newly upgraded Bright IDEA delivers 1256170620
Bright IDEA PHEV - Click above for high-res image galleryThe concepts that went into the Bright IDEA – a lightweight plug-in hybrid that serves a specific and large population – look great on paper. The vehicle itself, though, has never really looked all that good in the pictures ...

