Chevrolet News
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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 January: What We Know So Far Phew. That's a relief, then. The good news comes to us courtesy of the latest video from GM's tease machine, revving up anticipation for the launch of the next Volt exactly three weeks from today. Needless to say, GM's lawyers have inserted a disclaimer before the 28 seconds...
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2016 Chevrolet Volt To Add On-Demand Regenerative Braking
With little morethan three weeks to go until the 2016 Chevrolet Volt is revealed, its maker is dribbling out more tantalizing details on the all-new car. The latest is a YouTube video published yesterday that shows two members of the development team--familiar faces to Volt fans--demonstrating a...
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2015 Chevrolet Trax: First Drive
The U.S. market is about to see a wave of new small utility vehicles, adding new subcompact SUV models below the hugely popular compact crossover utility segment. The 2015 Chevrolet Trax, which goes on sale next month, is one of those--and it'll be joined this year by the Honda HR-V and the Mazda...
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UPDATED: 2016 Chevrolet Volt To Launch In January: What We Know So Far
For most of 2014, there was very little news about the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, and its sales in 2013 and 2014 have been stagnant at roughly 2,000 cars a month. The most recent item of note was a $5,000 price reduction on the 2014 Volt in August 2013, to bring it closer to the...
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2016 Chevy Volt: Front Styling Teaser Photos, Charging Details Released
A bit more of the styling of the all-new 2016 Chevrolet Volt has been revealed, in photos that Chevy released from a sneak preview of the car last night for current Volt owners in Los Angeles. The range-extended electric car will be revealed in its entirety at the Detroit Auto Show in January, but...
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Why New 2016 Chevy Volt Might Sell 50,000 Units Its First Year
Launching entirely new types of cars is expensive, time-consuming, and challenging--as Toyota could have told Chevrolet and Nissan during 2010. Toyota's sales of its early Prius hybrid-electric cars, however, may offer hope to electric-car fans disappointed at modest sales of the two affordable...
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A Volt owner in Michigan had power to her detached garage cut off after refusing to pay a higher electricity rate.
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A Third Of This Dealer's Sales Are Chevy Volt Electric Cars: How'd They Do It?
Can any other franchised dealer in the world make the claim that full one-third of its sales are a single model of plug-in electric car? Bourgeois Chevrolet of Rawdon, Quebec, achieved that remarkable level in its sales this year of the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car. Now the dealership...
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2016 Chevy Volt: Bigger Battery, More Motor Power, New Range Extender Engine Details: EXPANDED
General Motors took the wraps off its second-generation Voltec electric-drive system this morning that will power its 2016 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car. Company executives declined to give specifications for power of the two electric motors, the range-extending engine, or range of the...
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2016 Chevrolet Volt To Use New 1.5-Liter Four As Range Extender Engine
Later today, details about the powertrain of the new 2016 Chevrolet Volt will be released when GM CEO Mary Barra speaks to the Detroit Economic Club. But a GM press release this morning announcing further investments in Michigan manufacturing by the company included one nugget: The 2016 Volt will...
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One Million Chevrolet Spark Minicars Sold Globally Since 2009
The U.S. is the second-largest market for the Chevrolet Spark minicar.
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2017 Chevrolet Sonic EV: More Electric-Car Details Trickle Out
A few more details on the upcoming 2017 Chevrolet Sonic EV electric car are starting to come into focus, including its production date and a second version to be sold in Europe. Based on information from two separate sources in the auto industry, here's what we now know about Chevy's next...
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The 2015 Chevrolet Trax goes on sale in January.
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Hiding The 2016 Chevrolet Volt: GM Discusses Camouflage, Teases Updated Electric Car
General Motors teases the 2016 Chevrolet Volt electric car.
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Chevrolet Express, GMC Savana Natural-Gas Vans Recall: Leak Poses Fire Risk
General Motors is recalling Chevy and GMC vans to fix possible natural-gas leaks.
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Life With Chevy Volt: 3 Years & 35,000 Miles Later, It's Over
It was a sad day. After three years, 34,752 miles, roughly 7,500 kilowatt-hours of electricity, and 327 gallons of gas, I said good-bye to my 2011 Chevy Volt last week. Its lease was up, and there was no one left in the family to drive it. I've been at the wheel of a Tesla Model S for the last 18...
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Will Smaller Pickups Be More Popular Than Carmakers Expect?
Sometimes it's the throwaway lines that carry the most interesting news. In a routine report on August sales of new cars and trucks last Wednesday, The Detroit News had this nugget about the upcoming 2015 Chevrolet Colorado mid-size pickup truck: "GM said dealers have ordered nearly 28,000 midsize...
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2015 Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon Gas Mileage: 20 Or 21 MPG Combined For V-6
General Motors released the first fuel-economy information for its new mid-size pickup trucks.
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One of the factors making higher gas mileage possible across pretty much any vehicle on sale these days is multispeed transmissions. At the dawn of this century, four-speed automatics were the standard; now it's six speeds--and eight-speed automatics are coming on strong. Future models of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks will get an all-new eight-speed automatic that GM has just introduced in a somewhat more glamorous package. DON'T MISS: Pickup Truck Gas Mileage, 2015 And Beyond: 30 MPG Highway Is Next Hurdle The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette now uses GM's new eight-speed...
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2016 Chevy Volt Range-Extending Engine To Have 75 HP?
Electric power is only one part of the Chevrolet Volt equation. While it's a part that covers two thirds of all Volt miles driven, the other third is handled by its range-extending 1.4-liter Ecotec gasoline engine. The 2016 Chevrolet Volt is expected to downsize to a three-cylinder unit to boost...
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GM's 200-Mile Electric Sonic EV For 2017: What We Know So Far: UPDATED
The arrival of a moderately-priced battery electric car with a rated range of 200 miles will change the entire market for plug-in vehicles. When that will happen, and from which maker, remains open--though the likely suspects are Nissan, Tesla, and General Motors, with BMW as a long-shot outsider...
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Could Less-Pricey 2016 Chevy Volt Undercut Plug-In Hybrids?
The average new vehicle transaction price in the U.S. today is around $32,000. Now it appears that the upcoming 2016 Chevrolet Volt may possibly have two model variants, one of them targeting a base price of $30,000. That price could potentially equal--or undercut--every plug-in hybrid offered...
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Chevrolet Volts In Fleet Use: Might As Well Not Have A Plug
Chevy Volt owners, and even Chevrolet itself, are usually quite proud of the amount of miles the range-extended electric car covers on grid electricity. The company said last week that 63 percent of all Volt miles driven have been covered on grid power, totaling more than half a billion miles...
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Chevy Volt Electric Car: Only Current GM Model NOT Recalled This Year
The current 2015 Chevrolet Volt, now in its fifth year, will be the last of its generation before a revised and updated 2016 Volt is unveiled next January and goes on sale later in the year. But GM's first range-extended electric car turns out to have logged another minor distinction in its list of...
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