Chevrolet News
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The 2016 Chevrolet Equinox gets a handful of styling and trim changes.
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GM Officially Confirms It Will Build Chevy Bolt Electric Car With 200-Mile Range
Six days ago, Reuters broke the story that GM would indeed build and sell the Chevrolet Bolt electric car, but that production would start late next year--not in 2017 as previously expected. This morning, the company's North America President, Alan Batey, officially confirmed at the Chicago Auto...
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2015 Chevrolet Trax, Buick Encore Small SUVs Get IIHS Top Safety Pick Label
Both General Motors subcompact crossovers received the IIHS Top Safety Pick rating.
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2017 Chevrolet Spark: Photos Of Updated Minicar Leaked In Korea
The Chevrolet Spark minicar, among the smallest five-door hatchbacks sold in North America, has been an unexpected success for General Motors. The company has boosted imports a couple of times, and managed to sell almost 40,000 of them last year--and 34,000 the year before. Now, the first spy shots...
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Breaking: 2017 Chevrolet Bolt 200-Mile Electric Car To Start Production In Oct 2016
The Chevrolet Bolt, a subcompact electric car with 200 miles of range, is to go into production earlier than expected, just 20 months from now. According to a breaking news story early this morning, the Bolt will start production in October 2016--possibly as a 2017 model. DON'T MISS: Chevrolet Bolt...
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2016 Chevrolet Volt TV Ad Released 6 Months Before Car
One of the biggest concerns among electric-car advocates is GM's ability to create and sustain a smart, coherent, clever, and explanatory marketing campaign for its new 2016 Chevrolet Volt. The plug-in hybrid with a 50-mile range will arrive on the market in the second half of this year, but Chevy...
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A program to replace faulty hatch struts will not be classified as an official recall.
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Should GM Name Its Bolt Electric Car The 2017 Chevrolet EV2?
Without a doubt, Chevrolet dominated the news in plug-in electric cars at the recent Detroit Auto Show. It unveiled not only the new 2016 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, but also a concept that showed what a 2018 battery-electric hatchback with a 200-mile range might look like. The subcompact concept...
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2015 Chevrolet Spark EV To Go On Sale In Maryland This Spring
General Motors said today that it will begin selling its 2015 Chevrolet Spark EV in the state of Maryland this spring, the first East Coast state in which the electric minicar will be available. The Spark EV has a connection to the state: Both its 105-kilowatt (140-horsepower) electric motor and...
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Via's Plug-In Hybrid Trucks Will Sell 50,000 A Year By 2018, Company Says
Via Motors expects dramatic growth in its plug-in vehicle sales.
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2016 Chevrolet Volt: Seats Five, But Not (Really) On A Fifth Seat
The new 2016 Chevrolet Volt, its designers and engineers say, carries many features requested by owners of the first-generation Volt built from 2011 through this year. Among them are more electric range, an illuminated charging port ... and a fifth seating position. DON'T MISS: 2016 Chevrolet Volt...
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Is The 2016 Chevy Volt GM's Future Hybrid System In Disguise?
At 50 miles, the 2016 Chevrolet Volt offers the longest range of any plug-in hybrid (though the range-extended BMW i3 electric car is rated at 72 miles). Announced this week at the Detroit Auto Show, following an October technical briefing, the technology in the new Volt may turn out to hold some...
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Chevrolet went out on a limb back in 2010 when it introduced the 2011 Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle. Now it’s taking a much riskier step by showing off the upcoming battery-powered Bolt—a pure electric car with a promised 200-mile range. ALSO SEE: Chevrolet Bolt Concept: 200-Mile, $37,500 Electric Car Concept (Live Video & Photos) At first glance, the Bolt looks very similar to BMW’s i3 electric car, though it doesn’t have the BMW’s striking window line and blue accents. But it’s less like the BMW when you consider its estimated price of...
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2016 Chevrolet Volt Video
Eight years ago, at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, GM unveiled the first concept for what became the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car. It was a ‘moonshot’ for GM at the time. Now, it's time for a second-generation Chevy Volt. Can it rekindle the excitement of GM's tech icon?...
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2016 Chevrolet Volt: Celebrities Come Out For LA Launch Party
By this point, the 2016 Chevrolet Volt launch at this week's Detroit Auto Show may feel like old news to followers of GM's plug-in hybrid compact hatchback. The evening of the same day that GM CEO Mary Barra showed the 2016 Volt, it was revealed to a different crowd as well: Los Angeles...
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2018 Chevrolet Bolt Electric Car: What It Is & Isn't, What It Means For Tesla
The great thing about the Detroit Auto Show is that it brings so many global auto industry executives together under one roof. So there's been a lot of discussion about the Chevrolet Bolt electric-car concept here: what it is (for buyers, for GM, and for other carmakers), what it isn't...
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Chevrolet Bolt Concept: 200-Mile, $37,500 Electric Car Concept (Live Video & Photos)
General Motors CEO Mary Barra had hoped to have a Steve Jobs moment this morning, but news about the Chevrolet Bolt Concept for a 200-mile electric car leaked late Friday night. Still, with no advance information, the Bolt Concept was both a surprise to open the Detroit Auto Show and a bold...
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2016 Chevrolet Volt: 50-Mile Range, 41 MPG, Five Seats, All New (Photos)
The 2016 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, which will be unveiled this morning at the Detroit Auto Show, is sleeker, has more electric range, and is projected to get higher gas mileage when its engine is operating. The compact five-door hatchback also has a fifth "seating position,"...
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Monday morning, General Motors CEO Mary Barra is expected to unveil a new battery-electric concept car at the Detroit Auto Show. It's the first look at a future production vehicle with a projected 200 miles of electric range, at a price said to be around $30,000. Assuming the leaked stories are correct, the concept is called the Chevrolet Bolt. And that's just an incredibly bad name for Chevy to use. DON'T MISS: BREAKING: Chevrolet 'Bolt' Concept 200-Mile Electric Car To Target Tesla We can understand why GM's marketers would want to allude to the Volt in naming a new, all-electric model. The...
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BREAKING: Chevrolet 'Bolt' Concept 200-Mile Electric Car To Target Tesla: UPDATED
On Monday, General Motors will unveil a concept version of a $30,000 battery-electric vehicle with 200 miles of electric range that will arrive on the market before the planned Tesla Model 3, according to reports. Called the Chevrolet Bolt, the concept is a compact five-door hatchback that uses...
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2016 Chevrolet Volt Breaks Cover At CES Last Night (Photos)
One week from today, the new 2016 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car will be unveiled in Detroit. But Chevy has been teasing the new car since August, releasing a partial image here, a powertrain tutorial there, and GM's largest brand did it again yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show...
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Will The 2016 Chevy Volt Be A 'Mass-Market' Electric Car? Should It Be?
While battery-electric cars are pretty simple in concept, it's often much harder for auto marketers to explain the benefits of range-extended electrics and plug-in hybrids. Last summer, Chevrolet's chief marketing officer, Tim Mahoney, said the marketing for the new 2016 Chevy Volt would be...
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Chevrolet CrossVolt Trademark Renewed: AWD Electric Car In Chevy's Future?
All-wheel drive is an increasingly popular option among buyers in virtually all segments of the automotive market, partly driven by surging sales of small crossover utility vehicles. But is Chevrolet developing an all-wheel-drive version of the new 2016 Chevy Volt range-extended electric car it'll...
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2016 Chevrolet Volt: Another Video Teaser, This One On Snow And Ice
Can the upcoming 2016 Chevrolet Volt manage to propel itself on what looks like an inch or two of snow? Why, yes, actually, it can. In fact, the new Volt appears to behave just as any other front-wheel-drive car would on a similar surface. DON'T MISS: UPDATED: 2016 Chevrolet Volt To Launch In...
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