Chevrolet News
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Each year, Green Car Reports chooses a new car, or a family of cars, as the best green car introduced in that model year. In 2011, our very first award, we picked the first-ever modern electric car to be sold in high volumes. Six years later, we've picked the spiritual successor to that car, one that provides radically higher range at an affordable price. This year, the Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2017 is the Chevrolet Bolt EV. DON'T MISS: 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV first drive: 240 miles in an electric car The all-electric Bolt EV is EPA-rated at 238 miles of range, at a base price of...
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GM ramps up 2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric-car production; how many can it build?With anticipation of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV launch growing, General Motors has started to ramp up production of its groundbreaking 200-mile electric car. (It's actually rated by the EPA at 238 miles combined, but it joins a segment of the electric-car market with 200 miles or more of range that...
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Chevy Bolt EV compared to Tesla Model S 60: Motor Trend lays it out
Sometimes reporters and editors will see an article or a section in another outlet and think, "Darn, why didn't we think of that?" This is one of those times. Enthusiast publication Motor Trend had the very clever idea of comparing two electric cars with 60-kilowatt-hour battery packs and more than...
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: video review of 238-mile electric car
From the outside, this car looks like a tall hatchback, not all that remarkable, maybe a bit bigger than some of the smallest cars around. But from the moment you open the door and get behind the wheel, it's clear that this is no ordinary Chevrolet. In fact, it's Chevrolet's first-ever mass-market...
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LG Chem: GM to sell 'more than 30,000' Chevy Bolt EVs next year
A very brief article on a single sentence uttered on Tuesday by an executive at Korean battery maker LG Chem has reverberated around electric-car circles for most of this week. The executive was vice president Kang Chang-beom, and he spoke on a conference call for financial analysts on the topic of...
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Green Car Reports 2017 Best Car To Buy nominee: Chevy Bolt EV
The announcement of the Chevrolet Bolt concept car came like a thunderclap at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show. After unveiling the 2016 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, General Motors CEO Mary Barra rolled out a bright orange five-door hatchback electric car. It would have 200 or more miles of range, she...
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General Motors chief in North America confirmed that Chevrolet will bring its diesel compact car to the U.S. and "seize" on ground that VW has lost. "People who drive diesels, love diesels. And so there is a customer base there that wants to drive this type of vehicle and have this type of performance. What we're doing is providing that option," said Alan Batey, president of GM in America. Batey said the second-generation Cruze will be available with a diesel engine first as a sedan, then eventually as a hatchback next year as a 2018 model year. The diesel engine would be available in most...
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Chevy Bolt EV allocations: dealer in California gets electric-car update
As its new electric car gets closer to public sale, General Motors has apparently made its first allocations of 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EVs to Chevy dealers. The news comes via a posting on the GM-Volt forum from a southern California dealership. Rick Alpern, the general manager of Keyes Chevrolet in...
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Military hydrogen-powered Chevy Colorado ZH2 launches
The Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 will begin testing with the U.S. Army next year.
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV review consensus: car is good, range is real
Early reviews of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV are encouraging.
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How many Chevy Bolt EVs will be sold in the U.S. in its first 12 months? Poll results
The largest number of one single battery-electric car sold in the U.S. in a single year is 30,000, the total logged in 2014 by the Nissan Leaf. (Of course, we don't know Tesla's sales because the company doesn't break out its quarterly global delivery totals by country.) But those were back in the...
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2018 Chevrolet Equinox crossover: only turbo engines, diesel optional
The 2018 Chevrolet Equinox crossover utility vehicle, unveiled last night in Chicago, will have three engine options, all turbocharged. And bucking recent "death of diesel" predictions, one of those three will be a 1.6-liter diesel that gets a 40-mpg highway rating. The 2018 Equinox will be the...
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The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will be on dealership floors within several weeks, cementing its position as the first affordable 200-mile electric car. It will beat planned 200-mile electric cars from BMW, Nissan, Tesla, Volkswagen, and other makers, and that's all to the good for plug-in car advocates. But the Bolt faces numerous hurdles to success, and it's important for fans and buyers to acknowledge them. DON'T MISS: 2017 Chevy Bolt EV price starts at $37,495 before incentives (as promised) Let's not break out the rose petals, rainbows, and unicorns just yet. First, Chevy has to contend with...
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Lyft will have self-driving cars within five years: Bolt EV's main role?
Will the Chevrolet Bolt EV serve as the basis for autonomous Lyft cars?
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV price: electric car starts at $37,495 before incentives (as promised)
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car will carry a price of $37,495 for the base LT trim level, including the mandatory destination charge, before incentives. The Bolt EV Premier model starts at $41,780 before incentives. The Premier trim includes front and rear heated and leather-appointed...
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Koreans add to Chevy confusion chorus over Bolt, Volt names
The names "Bolt" and "Volt" are virtually indistinguishable in Korean.
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Chevy Bolt EV not on shared architecture, but platform name secret, GM says
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV had a fast and unusual development process. General Motors partnered closely with Korean electronics firm LG, whose LG Chem subsidiary provided its lithium-ion battery cells. Other LG units contributed both electric and electronic components and now act as contract...
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IIHS names 2017 Chevrolet Volt a Top Safety Pick+
The 2017 Chevrolet Volt is an IIHS Top Safety Pick+
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Over the last five years, much has been written about autonomous-car efforts from Apple and Google. Could these two massively successful Silicon Valley startups overturn the established order in the global auto industry? The answer remains to be seen, but this month brought news that both companies are restructuring their efforts. DON'T MISS: 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV first drive: 240 miles in an electric car Apple has laid off a significant number of staff in a "reset" of its automotive Project Titan (an effort it's never formally acknowledged), according to reports by company followers. And...
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV first drive: 240 miles in an electric car
We drove a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car 240 miles on a single charge last week. And that was the lowest range achieved among four journalists driving four Bolt EVs along the California coast. One driver covered essentially the same trip with fully 32 miles remaining, according to the...
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric car: 238-mile EPA range rating, 119 MPGe combined
There will be a lot riding on the tall, square shoulders of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV when it reaches the first Chevy dealers late this year. It will be the first mass-priced electric car with a range of 200 miles or more, and it will go on sale a year before the much-vaunted Tesla Model 3. Now...
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Apple's Woz likes Chevy Bolt EV better than Tesla Model 3, he says
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak likes the Chevrolet Bolt EV.
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Does the Chevy Bolt EV make the Chevrolet Volt irrelevant? Is that a problem?
Sometime during the last three months of this year, the first 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will be delivered to its buyer in a blaze of flash photography and publicity. The 200-mile electric car, base-priced at $37,500 before incentives, will be the first car in the world with those specifications. And...
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What it took to buy an electric car in Texas: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to locate and purchase or lease a Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid somewhere in the heart of Texas oil country. Hoping to make Tom Cruise proud, I accepted the mission. But first, a bit of perspective: in 2005 I had set out to purchase a Mercury Mariner...
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