Chevrolet News
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By now, it's hardly a secret that we're big fans of the redesigned second-generation Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid. We gave it our Best Car To Buy 2016 award, and we've written that it's better in pretty much every way than the innovative first-generation Volt. Last month, we were able to spend four weekend days with a 2016 Chevrolet Volt, to get a sense for what it's like to live with every day--especially in cold weather. DON'T MISS: Chevrolet Volt: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2016 Over almost 300 miles on our usual test route, roughly two-thirds highway driving and one-third city and...
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Is Chevy Bolt EV's Main Mission To Marginalize Tesla Electric Cars?The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV may be the most eagerly awaited electric car since the original Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt (plus everything Tesla). Its claimed 200-mile range and pre-incentive price of $37,500 will make it unique if it launches this December as expected. And there's been much press...
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Why Isn't The 2016 Chevy Volt A Flex-Fuel Plug-In Hybrid That Can Use E85 Ethanol?The 2016 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid has received numerous accolades, including this site's Best Car To Buy 2016 Award. It's better-looking, quicker, quieter, and has a significantly longer all-electric range of 53 miles. It is not, however, certified to use E85, the fuel blend containing 85...
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Carlos Ghosn's Face Shows Nissan's Reaction To 2017 Chevy Bolt EVCarlos Ghosn has never really been known as a man with frequent warm and ready smiles for all comers. Under most circumstances, the man who runs not only global automaker Nissan but the Franco-Japanese Renault-Nissan Alliance displays a serious, thoughtful countenance. But as he inspected the 2017...
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GM Won't Fund CCS Fast-Charging Sites For 2017 Chevy Bolt EVThe 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV has received largely positive reviews for the production version unveiled last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And as the first affordable 200-mile electric car, expected to go on sale before the end of this year, it will likely reset consumer...
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV Specs Released: Battery Pack, Motor Power, And MoreThe production version of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV 200-mile electric car made its auto-show debut this morning in Detroit, after last week's global unveiling at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But while the car was familiar, Chevy provided some eagerly sought information on the car's...
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The 2017 Chevrolet Volt will get some additional features, but will have the same price as the 2016 model.
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Production Electric Car Unveiled At CESChevrolet unveiled the Bolt electric vehicle as a concept car at last year's Detroit Auto Show and today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas it showed the production version. Most notably, the car, officially called the Bolt EV, promises more than 200 miles of range on a full charge...
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First Drive: Chevy Bolt EV 200-Mile Electric Car Development VehicleIf the production version of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV lives up to the engineering development vehicles we saw and drove today, it will debut a new world of affordable, 200-mile electric cars that should be desirable to a broad mass market. Back in 2010, Chevy let journalists drive "integration...
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2016 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid: First Drive Of Sedan Using Volt Hybrid SystemThe second generation of GM’s Voltec plug-in hybrid system is now powering a car that doesn’t actually have a plug at all. The new 2016 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid uses essentially the same powertrain as the 2016 Chevy Volt, but with a far smaller battery pack. That makes it a new entrant...
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Chevrolet Volt: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2016Every year, Green Car Reports picks a new car or model line that we feel is the best green car for that new model year. This year, we picked a car that's the all-new version of one that was revolutionary when it was introduced several years ago. The latest version improves on it in pretty much...
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Is Chevy Actually Testing New Marketing For The 2016 Volt?The new 2016 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid keeps and expands on all the good points of the first-generation Volt, while fixing a number of the old car's quirks. As we wrote in September, "The new Volt's a great car, and brings practical electric drive to U.S. drivers without a shred of range...
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The first Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car won all sorts of awards in 2011, the year it was introduced. But it didn't win that year's Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award, because we deemed the world's first mass-priced high-volume battery-electric car more significant. That car, the Nissan Leaf, narrowly edged out the Chevy Volt to take the title that year--our very first such award. DON'T MISS: Green Car Reports 2016 Best Car To Buy: The Also-Rans That Didn't Make It Now, the all-new 2016 Chevrolet Volt is here, and it offers a little more of everything that owners loved about...
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2016 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid Starts At $28,645The 2016 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid starts at $28,645.
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Production Car Spied Before 2016 CES RevealThe 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will appear in production-ready form at CES, a new report says.
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Chevy Reports It Met 2010 Carbon-Reduction Goal: 8 Million TonsChevrolet says it's achieved the carbon-reduction goal it set for itself in 2010.
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Pickup Truck Fuel Economy For 2016: Diesels Take Top Three SpotsWhich 2016 pickup truck is the most fuel efficient?
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Production Version To Appear At CESThe 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will appear in production-ready form at CES, a new report says.
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Along with the upcoming fourth-generation hybrid Toyota Prius, the 2016 Chevrolet Volt is one of the major green-car introductions of this year. It won’t be available nationwide until next spring, but new Volts are already being delivered in California and a few other states. To get an early sense of what the car’s like to live with, we asked San Francisco buyer Bernard Freiwald for his early impressions after taking delivery of a maroon 2016 Volt. DON'T MISS: 2016 Chevrolet Volt First Drive: Plug-In Hybrid Home Run The question-and-answer session that follows was conducted by...
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2016 Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon Take Truck Fuel-Efficiency Crown At 25 MPGThe 2016 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon diesels are officially the most fuel-efficient trucks on sale.
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Hot Pizza: Domino's DXP $25K Chevy Spark Includes Warming OvenDomino's is converting Chevrolet Spark hatchbacks into pizza-delivery vehicles.
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV Development: GM, LG Chem Reveal Deep PartnershipWhen General Motors CEO Mary Barra unveiled the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV concept last January at the Detroit Auto Show, the 200-mile electric car was a shock to the industry. But equally startling was the launch schedule that emerged over the following months: The Bolt EV is to go into production...
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Discounts On Brand-New 2016 Chevy Volt, But Only In A Few RegionsGeneral Motors is already offering discounts on the 2016 Chevrolet Volt.
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2016 Chevrolet Volt Ads: Attacking Prius, Leaf...And Bolt EV?The 2016 Chevrolet Volt, for which deliveries began just this week, is going into attack mode against the Nissan Leaf and Toyota Prius in a set of new ads. But in one of those ads, it almost feels as if GM is attacking its own (upcoming) product. They build on focus-group-themed ads that Chevy has...
Bengt Halvorson