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  • Chevrolet Sail Electric Concept Vehicle

    No, Springo isn't a new scratch-off game. It's apparently the name of a new Chevrolet battery electric vehicle, though we'll never see it in North America. The Chevy Springo electric car will go on sale in China (and possibly other countries) at roughly the same time that the U.S. gets limited numbers of the 2013 Chevrolet Spark EV, a "compliance car" that Chevy is selling only to meet California zero-emission vehicle requirements. The news from China (and some spy photos too) comes courtesy of autos.ifeng.com (via Indian Autos Blog), which notes that "Springo" is the new model name for what...

  • 2010 Chevrolet New Sail, sold in China
    GM To Show All-Electric Car Next Year...In India, Not Here

    While General Motors is focusing its U.S. electric-drive efforts solely on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, a range-extended electric car, elsewhere in the world it's experimenting with full battery electric vehicles. Now the company has said it will unveil a Chinese-built electric subcompact in the Indian...

  • Chevrolet Volt arrives in China for use at World Expo 2010 Shanghai
    GM's Volt Heads For China, But As a Chevy--Not a Buick After All

    Ceremonial handshakes offer photo opportunities the world over, and so it is with the arrival of the first running Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car in China. And despite earlier reports--including ours--to the contrary, General Motors plans to sell the car as a Chevrolet, rather than as a...

  • 2010 Chevrolet New Sail hatchback, sold in China
    GM China Confirms Development of All-Electric Sail Concept

    General Motors has been through the wringer over the last 18 months, nowhere more so than in North America, where it declared bankruptcy and was quickly restructured with $60 billion of Federal funds. But its overseas operations haven't had an easy time of it either, including its on-again...

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