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Chevy Shows Fourth Electric-Car Project: Beat EV Minicar In India
Right now, the sole plug-in vehicle you can buy from Chevrolet--or indeed all of General Motors--is the 2011 Volt range-extended electric car. But that doesn't mean GM isn't testing a lot of other concepts. The company just isn't doing it in North America, the sole region where Volts are sold this...
What Really Killed The Cadillac SRX Plug-In? It's Complicated
When a major automaker cancels an innovative plug-in hybrid vehicle program, that's big news. If it's General Motors, that goes double, given the politics that continue to... June 3, 2011 by John Voelcker 3
Weak Battery Explains Death Of Cadillac SRX Plug-In Hybrid
Well, now we know a little more about why the Cadillac SRX Plug-In Hybrid project was killed by its development team at General Motors. The culprit, according to... June 2, 2011 by John Voelcker 6
DoE's Chu Hopes Chrysler Can Play With Big Kids, Get Loans At Last
Well, looks like Chrysler is getting closer to playing with the big kids at last. The back-from-bankruptcy third U.S. automaker, now effectively controlled by Italy's Fiat... May 17, 2011 by John Voelcker 1
Sun Shines on GM’s New Solar Panels at Chevy Volt Factory
You hardly need us to tell you that there’s been an ongoing race to become the king of plug-in vehicles between Nissan and General Motors ever since the two firms... May 12, 2011 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 1
Buick Envision Concept: Plug-In Hybrid SUV From Shanghai
The guessing games continue, with General Motors releasing more details about its Buick Envision concept car that give tantalizing hints of a concept stuffed with technology... April 18, 2011 by John Voelcker
EcoCar2 Will Challenge College Teams To Build Greener Cars
The winning team for the third and final year of the first EcoCar Challenge has yet to be announced, but the next three-year competition has already been unveiled. On... April 15, 2011 by John Voelcker 1
Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars?
It's been a rough couple of years for cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells. As the drums beat louder for electric cars--the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, Nissan's upcoming EV, and... March 30, 2011 by John Voelcker 44
What's Good For GM Is...Good For The Environment?
We asked last year if the new GM would be a cleantech play. It’s looking more and more like that’s the case. Yesterday, the company announced it would be rolling... February 9, 2011 by VentureBeat's GreenBeat
Video: OnStar Previews New Energy Management Tools For EV Owners
As electric cars start to trickle into the market and public charging infrastructure grows, their drivers will need to know the best times to charge, the best places to... February 4, 2011 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Choice Of Electric-Car Battery Size? GM Investment May Make It Real
A recent investment by General Motors in a new lithium-ion battery cathode technology will give the automaker more pricing options for future generation electric vehicles. It... January 31, 2011 by Alysha Webb 6
GM Bets On Cheaper Electric-Car Batteries With Envia, Invests $17 Million
Riding high on a bout of good press of its Chevy Volt, GM is putting $7 million into its next big bet on electric cars: cheaper, higher-energy batteries. In his state of the... January 28, 2011 by VentureBeat's GreenBeat 7
GM Says More Government Money Not Needed--Though Rivals Took It
Well, give them credit for resolve, anyway. General Motors said today it was withdrawing its applications to the U.S. Department of Energy for $14.4 billion of low-interest... January 27, 2011 by John Voelcker 8
Battery Wars: General Motors Licenses American Argonne Tech
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Actually, no--fairly recently and not so far from home, the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory patented a... January 12, 2011 by Antony Ingram 3
2011 Chevrolet Volt Electric: North American Car of the Year
It's been quite a year for the 2011 Chevy Volt, GM's range-extended electric car that went on sale last month. It garnered a slew of awards from various car magazines and... January 10, 2011 by John Voelcker 1
GM EV1 Gets Another Shot At Smithsonian, 4 Years On
If General Motors' EV1 had featured in the Disney Pixar animated film Cars, we can't imagine it would have been the happiest of characters. It might well have spent a little... December 30, 2010 by Antony Ingram 3
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