Chevrolet News
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The next-generation Corvette could get a plug-in hybrid powertrain, says Bob Lutz.
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What can VW diesel owners buy now? Perhaps a Chevy Cruze diesel?
General Motors will target Volkswagen TDI owners with its next Chevrolet Cruze diesel.
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV to ship to dealers before end of year
General Motors has always had an aggressive schedule for launching its 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, the industry's first mass-priced electric car with 200 miles or more of range. It was revealed as a concept just 18 months ago at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, with a production version unveiled at this...
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Lyft drivers to get bulk of early 2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric cars? Updated report
The first 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars will go to Lyft drivers.
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV preview
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will be the world's first mass-priced electric car with a range of 200 miles or more. That alone makes it a hugely important new market entry. Going on sale in late 2016 or early 2017, just six years after modern electric cars arrived, the Bolt EV represents a second...
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car to enter production in October
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will start full-scale production in October, a new report says.
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The 2016 Chevrolet Spark is a slightly larger, better equipped, and more stylish version of the smallest Chevy in brand's lineup. It succeeds a model whose unexpected sales numbers showed Chevrolet that there were buyers for a very small but up-to-date five-door hatchback minicar. However, with gas prices cheap and seemingly the whole world's buyers looking with longing at SUVs and crossover utility vehicles, the little Spark is out of the limelight. WATCH THIS: 2016 Chevrolet Spark Video Preview It's now on sale at Chevy dealers across the country, and we'll get a chance to drive one next...
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Can Chevy Spark Activ 'soft-roader' SUV-like version boost appeal?
An SUV-like version of the Chevrolet Spark could arrive in the U.S. soon.
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New hood scoop feeds cool air to 2017 Chevy Silverado HD diesel truck
The 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD features a new hood scoop to feed air to its diesel engine.
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Selling an electric car is easy, says creator of fictional Chevy Jolt EV
First, there was the Volt. Then came the Bolt, later renamed the Bolt EV. Now, there's the Jolt EV, the third Chevrolet electrical car. At least, that's what appeared on a website a few weeks ago—the all-electric Chevrolet Jolt EV, a sporty two-door coupe offering more than 230 miles of...
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GM big SUV buyers to get gift cards or protection plan for fuel-economy errors (updated)
GM says it will compensate owners who bought crossovers with inaccurate fuel economy on window stickers.
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Gas-mileage error halts sale of GM's large SUVs; new labels on the way
It would appear that every automaker is rechecking its gas-mileage calculations these days. The ongoing VW diesel-emission cheating scandal and Mitsubishi's recent admission that it misstated fuel-economy results in Japan for more than 20 years have led to renewed public attention to how makers are...
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The question of how many electric cars can be sold in a single year remains a topic of hot debate as the U.S. market awaits the launch of the 200-mile Chevy Bolt EV at the end of this year. The world's best-selling electric car, the Nissan Leaf, had its highest-sales year in the U.S. in 2014, when just over 30,000 Leafs were delivered. Despite a range boost from 84 to 107 miles for 2016, Leaf sales have never returned to that level. DON'T MISS: Is Chevy Bolt EV's Main Mission To Marginalize Tesla Electric Cars? Volumes for the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV have been debated ever since a volume...
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Chevy Bolt EV electric car to be GM-Lyft self-driving car testbed
It's the season of autonomous-car announcements, apparently. This week Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that the Silicon Valley giant would use the Detroit automaker's 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans for its self-driving car research. Now, General Motors has said that the Lyft...
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Can Malibu Hybrid volume cut costs, kickstart sales for Chevy Volt?
General Motors is trying to get as much use as possible out of the current-generation Chevrolet Volt's Voltec powertrain.
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Bob Lutz called 2017 Chevy Bolt EV a 'compliance car'; is it?
Electric-car advocates are often passionate, with memories long enough to remember GM's 2004 destruction of its pioneering fleet of EV1 electric cars. Since then, the company has built and sold two generations of the Chevrolet Volt, with the launch of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV imminent within a...
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2016 Chevy Cruze gas mileage beats even previous Eco model
The 2016 Chevrolet Cruze achieves a best of 30 mpg city, 42 mpg highway, 40 mpg combined.
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How GM plans to market Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, Bolt EV electric car
Hybrids are pretty well-known at this point, and battery-electric cars are conceptually simple: You plug them in like a mobile phone. But explaining plug-in hybrids to car buyers at large—it's a hybrid, but it also plugs in, but only for double-digit range—has proven to be very hard. As...
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There are just nine days to go before the much-hyped Tesla Model 3 is unveiled to the world. But it appears that the makers of a different affordable 200-mile electric car wanted to point out that their car will actually precede the Model 3 into production by at least a year. Chevy said today that pre-production units of its 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car are now rolling off the line at the assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan. DON'T MISS: Is Chevy Bolt EV's Main Mission To Marginalize Tesla Electric Cars? What's known as "retail production"—cars that can actually be sold to...
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2017 Chevrolet Sonic updated with CarPlay, new styling
The 2017 Chevrolet Sonic will debut at the 2016 New York Auto Show.
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Small-town Indiana Chevy dealer is big on electric cars
It's often said that franchised auto dealers are one of the bigger impediments to sales of plug-in electric cars. Vehicles with plugs require more explanation, the financial calculations are often more complicated, and home and public charging stations add a further layer of complication...
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Durable 2012 Chevrolet Volt: 300,000 miles, no battery loss
One of the biggest worries about electric cars--and hybrids for that matter--is whether their expensive high-voltage battery packs will last the life of the car. If not, potential buyers worry, they may be saddled with thousands of dollars of cost in years to come. The evidence on hybrids is...
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2017 Chevy Volt: what GM is doing differently this time
By virtually all accounts, the second-generation Chevrolet Volt is a handsome, enjoyable, efficient, and comfortable plug-in hybrid hatchback. This site named it our Best Car To Buy for 2016, and it's won plaudits from reviewers across the spectrum. But as we wrote last summer, "We worry most about...
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Chevy, GMC V-8 Pickups Get 20 MPG With $500 eAssist Mild Hybrid Option
The eAssist mild hybrid system is dead, long live the eAssist mild hybrid system? With continually rising corporate average fuel economy levels required through 2025, General Motors will test a third generation of its eAssist mild-hybrid system during the current model year. This time, though...
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