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Will the Chevrolet Volt get an immediate successor, or will any other model soon carry on with the potential of its brilliant Voltec plug-in hybrid system? Considering what General Motors announced yesterday, both of those possibilities are now looking less likely. GM said that it will cut 50 jobs at the Brownstown facility that assembled battery packs for the Volt, as well as a few other models, including the Buick LaCrosse and its eAssist system. DON'T MISS: What will happen now that the Chevy Volt has been discontinued? Twitter poll results This news comes in addition to GM’s...
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV pre-production cars now being built (video)There are just nine days to go before the much-hyped Tesla Model 3 is unveiled to the world. But it appears that the makers of a different affordable 200-mile electric car wanted to point out that their car will actually precede the Model 3 into production by at least a year. Chevy said today that...
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Mother-Daughter Team Installs Battery Packs In Chevy Volt Electric Cars
A mother and daughter work side by side to install Chevy Volt battery packs at GM's Detroit-Hamtramck plant.
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GM Is Serious About Electric Cars, Despite Grumbling By Advocates
Sometimes memories are short. Electric-car advocates often forget that it took seven years from the first Toyota Prius hybrid, launched in Japan in 1997, until sales of the second-generation Prius started to grow in global markets. Now, General Motors appears to be the subject of suspicion and...
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GM To Add Plant Jobs, Invest $450 Million For 2016 Chevy Volt
New jobs and plant updates by carmakers often get little attention outside the towns involved, but sometimes they telegraph information about future models. The Detroit News said Saturday that GM is expected to announce it will update its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, spending $450 million and...
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2014 Cadillac ELR Electric Car Will Be Built Next To Volt, GM Confirms
Color us, oh, not very surprised at all. General Motors confirmed yesterday that it would build the 2014 Cadillac ELR range-extended electric luxury coupe at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant, on the same line that builds the ELR's Chevrolet Volt sibling. While this had long been discussed in the...
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Yesterday, Automotive News (subscription required) reported the news that the Detroit Hamtramck facility, where the 2013 Chevrolet Volt is made, is to pause production of the plug-in hybrid for four weeks. The second time General Motors has temporarily halted production of the plug-in car, the four-week halt, like last time, has been partly caused by an oversupply of Volts. In other words, GM is making Volts, along with its European sibling the Opel Ampera, faster than it is selling them. According to GM however, oversupply isn’t the only reason the plant is closing down for four weeks...
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After Record Sales, Chevy Volt Production To Resume A Week Early
Buoyed by record monthly sales of its Chevy Volt hybrid electric plug-in car in March, General Motors will resume production of the Volt at the Detroit Hamtramck plant one week early, the United Auto Workers told Talking Points Memo on Tuesday night. “They’re adding a week of production...
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Chevy Volt Production To Halt For 5 Weeks Due To Oversupply
Late Friday afternoon, Chevrolet announced it would idle production of its Volt range-extended electric car for five weeks, from March 19 to April 23. The story was first reported by the Detroit Free Press; GM informed the 1,300 assembly-line workers at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant of the shutdown...
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GM Makes 2012 Volt Production Line Tweaks, Delays 2nd Shift
Earlier this year, General Motors announced that it would start a second shift at its Detroit-Hamtramck factory some time towards the end of 2011 to meet its production goals for the 2012 Chevrolet Volt. But on Friday the company announced that it was shelving plans to introduce a second shift...
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More Sites Install Solar Carports For Electric-Car Charging
It's the green ideal: Charging an electric car or plug-in hybrid using electricity generated purely from the sun. But it's not fiction; a handful of large, multi-space solar carports are popping up in areas as diverse as Silicon Valley, New York City, Detroit, and Tennessee. The latest one...
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Sun Shines on GM’s New Solar Panels at Chevy Volt Factory
You hardly need us to tell you that there’s been an ongoing race to become the king of plug-in vehicles between Nissan and General Motors ever since the two firms launched their 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Chevrolet Volt. But with both cars battling it out on the forecourt both firms can worry...
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It all started when General Motors CEO Dan Akerson said the company wanted to "double" production of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, its range-extended electric car. Various media outlets reported the news with varying degrees of accuracy. So far, GM has not officially said it will make more Volts. Looming deadline Chevy expects to build and sell 10,000 Volts this year, and 45,000 during 2012. Akerson said last month GM hoped to make as many as 25,000 Volts this year. He is responding to strong consumer demand for the 2011 Volt, but he also wants to hike Volt volume for economies of scale that will...
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First 2011 Chevy Volts Leave Plant, Head To CA, TX, DC & NY
Production of the world's first range-extended electric car is now a reality. Today, the first shipment of 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric cars left the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. The cars are bound for dealers and buyers in the initial launch markets: California, Texas, New York, and...
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GM Doubles Down on Electric Cars, Will Hire 1,000 Engineers For Them
It doesn't really matter whether GM sells the first Chevrolet Volt electric cars at a loss or not. The company announced yesterday that it plans to hire 1,000 new engineers over the next two years to focus exclusively on developing and expanding its work in electric-drive vehicles, everything from...
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