Chevrolet Equinox News
-
GM has discontinued diesel versions of the Chevrolet Equinox. The Chevy Cruze that offered the same engine is already gone from the market.
-
2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel (very brief) first drive
We spent a few days with a gasoline-powered 2018 Chevy Equinox back in May, but now we've driven a much rarer version. The 2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel will start to arrive at U.S. Chevy dealers within two weeks, the company says. On Wednesday, as part of a comprehensive presentation on the five...
John Voelcker -
2018 Chevy Equinox Diesel pricing to start just above $31,000
Every now and then, resourceful journalists dredge up automotive news before it emerges in a sanitized press release from the maker in question. So it is with the pricing on the 2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel, one of two diesel-powered compact crossover utility vehicles expected to hit the U.S...
John Voelcker -
GM debuts 9-speed automatic, offering 2-percent efficiency improvement
General Motors will debut a new 9-speed automatic transmission in Chevrolet models.
Stephen Edelstein -
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...
John Voelcker -
2016 Chevrolet Equinox: Updated SUV Unveiled At 2015 Chicago Auto Show
The 2016 Chevrolet Equinox gets a handful of styling and trim changes.
Stephen Edelstein -
Starting with its rollout in the 2012 Buick Lacrosse, GM has steadily added its eAssist mild-hybrid system to an expanding roster of vehicles. Next year, it will be offered as an option on the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox and the 2014 GMC Terrain, which will be the first crossover utility vehicles to receive the system. The news was reported by GM Insider this morning, based on Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) cards issued by General Motors for 2014 models. UPDATE: GM representative Joe LaMuraglia contacted Green Car Reports to say the original report was incorrect. The VIN card located by GM...
-
High-Mileage Chevy Equinox, GMC Terrain To Get Eco eAssist System For 2014?
The mild-hybrid system that General Motors calls eAssist (on the 2012 Buick Lacrosse and Regal models) will also appear on the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco version. But now it appears that the system will spread further across GM's product lines, with a report on GMInsideNews that it will appear on...
John Voelcker -
2011 Chevrolet Equinox Sounds Quiet Enough For Better MPG
There are many ways of making a vehicle more fuel efficient. Improvements in engine technology, materials, rolling resistance and aerodynamics can all contribute towards making a car easier on gas than its predecessor. How about making it quieter? You may think making a car quieter at speed might...
Antony Ingram -
Fuel-Cell Vehicles Are Likely Coming (A Few): Who's Winning?
We're on record with the analysis that electric-car production will far, far outweigh that of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles built over the next decade, and perhaps longer. Still several carmakers are pressing ahead with plans to build hydrogen-powered vehicles, and now Pike Research has ranked them...
John Voelcker -
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Saturn Vue Returns As Chevy Captiva
The shuttered Saturn brand is quickly fading from memory, but now GM plans to bring back one former Saturn model to live on in a new incarnation. But even if you're a Saturn fan, you won't be able to buy one--unless you're a business. Vue redux The compact crossover that sold for only two years as...
John Voelcker -
AMP Electric Thinks Soccer Moms Want Electric Equinoxes; Do They?
Attending a conference in Detroit a couple of weeks ago, we had the chance to drive a converted "Amp'd Chevrolet Equinox" crossover, offered by AMP Electric Vehicles. Based in Cleveland, the company hopes to sell electric conversions of "best of class" vehicles in several segments to early adopting...
John Voelcker -
Did you notice? Us either. Nonetheless, last week, the first commercial hydrogen filling station in the country was opened in Wallingford, Connecticut, by startup firm SunHydro. The company generates hydrogen onsite using electricity from an array of photovoltaic solar cells that splits apart water molecules to yield hydrogen and oxygen. There are roughly 70 hydrogen filling stations nationwide, most of them in California, but this claims to be the very first one to be open to the public at large. So if you happen to be one of the very, very few people driving a hydrogen fueled car--whether...
-
GM Plug-In Hybrid Program Underway, Vehicle Still Unconfirmed
Recent spy shots posted by our sister site Motor Authority show that despite delays, General Motors is continuing to develop the plug-in version of its Two-Mode Hybrid system. While the system is being tested in a discontinued Saturn Vue crossover, it now seems likely to appear in a version of...
John Voelcker -
Drive Report: 26 MPG in 2010 Chevrolet Equinox Four-Cylinder
During a trip to Detroit last week, we had a chance to spend a couple of days with the all-new 2010 Chevrolet Equinox five-pasenger crossover sport-utility vehicle. We'd wanted to try this vehicle for some time, as most reviews deemed it vastly superior to the previous model. Certainly it's got...
John Voelcker -
GM's Plug-In Hybrid: Not a Saturn, Not a Buick, Will Try Again
Just two weeks ago, we reported that GM's first plug-in hybrid vehicle--originally meant to be a Saturn Vue before GM decided to sell Saturn to Pennske--would become a Buick crossover. My, how quickly things change in the new Internet world. As GM said Wednesday on its Fastlane blog, "not all the...
John Voelcker -
2010 Chevy Equinox To Get 32 MPG Highway, While GM Will Axe 12 of Its 20 Highest-Mileage Vehicles
High highway mileage is a laudable metric, but only if lots of those cars actually make it onto customers' driveway
John Voelcker -
Nominees for the 2009 Green Car Vision Award
The Green Car Journal has announced the five nominees for their 2009 Green Car Vision Award: the Chevrolet Volt, Fisker Karma, Honda FCX Clarity, Mitsubishi iMiEV, and the MINI E. It's worth noting that despite the fact that so many critics have declared the electric car revolution won't be...
Jennifer Knightstep