Chevrolet News
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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 generation of cars running solely on battery energy recharged from the grid. And at least in part, it's a reaction by General Motors—one of the world's three largest carmakers—to a perceived threat by startup maker Tesla Motors. DON'T MISS: First Drive: Chevy Bolt EV 200-Mile Electric Car...
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car to enter production in OctoberThe 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will start full-scale production in October, a new report says.
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2016 Chevrolet Spark previewThe 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...
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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 truckThe 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 EVFirst, 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 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 wayIt 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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2017 Chevy Bolt EV sales could go as high as 80,000, says analystThe 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...
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Chevy Bolt EV electric car to be GM-Lyft self-driving car testbedIt'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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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 carHybrids 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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2017 Chevy Bolt EV pre-production cars now being built (video)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...
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2017 Chevrolet Sonic updated with CarPlay, new stylingThe 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 carsIt'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 lossOne 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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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 GM's ability to explain what the Volt is, why it's better than other plug-in hybrids, and how it blends the benefits of all-electric drive with the security of a range-extending engine when you need it." DON'T MISS: Chevy Volt: Nationwide Rollout In Spring For 2017 Volt GM says it's taking a...
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Chevy, GMC V-8 Pickups Get 20 MPG With $500 eAssist Mild Hybrid OptionThe 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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2017 Chevy Volt Now At (Some) Dealers; First Incentives ReleasedThe 2017 Chevrolet Volt is arriving at certain dealers.
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Chevy Bolt EV To Be Sold In Europe As Opel Ampera-E Electric CarThe Opel Ampera-e should be mechanically identical to the Chevrolet Bolt EV.
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GM Willing To Sell Chevy Volt's Plug-In Hybrid Powertrain To Other MakersThe biggest challenge in introducing new technologies is getting to the volume production that permits economies of scale for expensive components. Toyota is now nearing 9 million hybrids produced, over almost 20 years--but it builds 10 million cars a year. General Motors, on the other hand, has...
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Bolt EV Powertrain: How Did GM And LG Collaborate On Design, Production?In last fall's runup to the launch of the production 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV 200-mile electric car, GM discussed working together with Korean corporate giant LG on the Bolt's development. Mark Reuss, GM’s head of global product development said in October that the company's partnership with LG...
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