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  • 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV  -  Driven, July 2014 (NWAPA Drive Revolution)

    It was one of the major electric-car news stories last month: Sales of the Chevrolet Spark EV electric minicar soared to 920 in April. The electric Spark had consistently sold at around 100 cars a month since its June 2013 launch. And it was widely considered to be a compliance car: one sold only in California and a few other locales to meet that state's Zero-Emission Vehicle sales rules. DON'T MISS: 2015 Chevrolet Spark EV Price Cut To $25,995; $139 Lease, No Money Down Then GM cut the price of the Spark EV in the three states where it's sold: California, Oregon, and most recently, Maryland...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV  -  Driven, July 2014 (NWAPA Drive Revolution)
    2015 Chevrolet Spark EV Price Cut To $25,995; $139 Lease, No Money Down

    The suggested retail price of the 2015 Chevrolet Spark EV electric car will be cut by $1,650, to $25,995, GM announced today. Chevrolet's chief global marketing officer, Tim Mahoney, announced the price cut today in a luncheon speech at the Washington Automotive Press Association. Mahoney also said...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV  -  First Drive, Portland, July 2013
    2016 Chevrolet Spark EV To Be Sold At Retail In Canada

    It may not have too many more years to live, but the Chevrolet Spark EV will be sold in some new markets starting with the 2016 model year: three Canadian provinces. While General Motors had offered the Spark EV for fleet purchase in parts of the country, it wasn't available to retail...

  • Chevrolet Spark EV at CCS fast charging station in San Diego.
    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...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Spark, Catskill Mountains, Apr 2014
    One Million Chevrolet Spark Minicars Sold Globally Since 2009

    The U.S. is the second-largest market for the Chevrolet Spark minicar.

  • Chevy Volt and Spark EV with Sen. Debbie Stabenow as GM expands Global Battery Systems Lab, Sep 2013
    Battery Maker LG Chem: Biggest Electric-Car Winner Of All?

    Let's say your company builds a crucial, high-volume component for advanced-technology vehicles. Suppose it emerged this week that you've now got contracts to supply two of the world's three biggest automakers. That would put you in a good spot, wouldn't it? First GM, now VW Group Yesterday, LG...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV  -  First Drive, Portland, July 2013

    The Chevrolet Spark EV has been on the market for only a year, but already it's being updated. And in this case, the update is major: The 2015 Chevy Spark EV will have an entirely new battery pack. General Motors announced yesterday that it will bring assembly of the electric Spark's battery in-house and assemble packs for the 2015 Spark EV at the Brownstown, Michigan, plant that already builds batteries for the Chevrolet Volt, Opel/Vauxhall Ampera, and Cadillac ELR. DON'T MISS: 2016 Chevrolet Volt To Launch Next Year: What We Know So Far Batteries for 1,000 or so Spark EVs for the 2014 model...

  • Rick and Alex Prell with new 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV, Studio City, CA
    First 2014 Chevy Spark EV Sold: Why We Chose This Electric Car

    So how did Rick and Christine Prell and their two teenage sons become the first family in the U.S. to buy a 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV? Turns out it was at least partly luck. The family needed a third car for Alex, their 16-year-old son who is about to turn 17, to drive to school. Alex, a car...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV recharging at Keyes Chevrolet, Van Nuys, CA
    First 2014 Chevrolet Spark EVs Now At CA, Oregon Dealers

    Add one more battery-electric vehicle to the list of electric cars for sale in California (if not the rest of the U.S.). The 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV is now available for purchase or lease at several dealerships in northern and southern California, as well as a few in Oregon. About a hundred of the...

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    2014 Chevrolet Spark EV Rated At 82 Miles Of Range, 119 MPGe

    The 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV has been a long time coming, but it's almost here. This morning, Chevy announced that its only battery-electric car will have a range of 82 miles and be rated at a combined 119 MPGe efficiency. MPGe, or miles-per-gallon-equivalent, is a measure of the distance a car can...

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    2014 Chevrolet Spark EV Electric Car: Now Europe Gets It Too

    You have to admire the Chevrolet Spark EV. It may have the same gawky upright stance as the gasoline model, and certainly costs a lot more, but its specification suggests GM has put a lot of efford into its electric offering. Europe will get to enjoy the fruits of its labor too, when the Spark EV...

  • 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid
    LA Auto Show Wrapup: Five New Plug-In Electric Cars (Video)

    For our final piece on last week's Los Angeles Auto Show, we put together a video on the five new plug-in electric cars officially unveiled there. Three of them are plug-in hybrids, a pair from Ford and one from Honda, and the other two are small battery-electric conversions by the makers of the...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV introduction, 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show

    We've previewed it, we've driven the prototype, and now we can bring you live photos of the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV. Chevy has turned its smallest offering into an electric car, and while there was some initial debate over whether it was a compliance car, the finished product appears anything but. At a glance it looks much like any other Spark, but the devil is in the details. Chevrolet has improved the car's aerodynamics, adding over two miles to the EV's range, compared to a standard Spark body. Easiest to spot is the new, Volt-like covered grille, but other subtle changes also help it slip...

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    2014 Chevrolet Spark EV Priced At Less Than $32,500

    Chevrolet has released more details on its 2014 Spark EV, ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show. Along with official photos of the electric Spark, Chevy is hinting at a price "below $25,000 with incentives", meaning a pre-incentive price of under $32,500. That puts the pre-incentive price more or less...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV prototype, Sausalito, CA, Nov 2012
    2014 Chevy Spark EV Prototype Electric Car: First Drive

    As GM's first battery electric car since the EV1 of the 1990s, there's more riding on the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV electric minicar than its size would indicate. The company maintains the electric Spark is not just a compliance car, but a fully developed product to be sold not only in California...

  • Chevrolet Spark EV Development Testing in Southern California, March 2012
    2014 Chevrolet Spark EV Electric Car To Debut At LA Auto Show

    It was announced more than a year ago, then test vehicles were shown in March, and now finally the car itself will be unveiled this month. The 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV, the electric conversion of Chevy's smallest vehicle sold in the U.S., will debut two weeks from today at the Los Angeles Auto Show...

  • 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar, New York City, Aug 2012
    Chevrolet Spark EV Electric Car For Korea As Well As U.S.

    While it was announced a year ago, the Chevrolet Spark EV electric car still hasn't formally been shown by General Motors. That may change at a "GM Electrification" event to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area next month. The only nugget of news we've heard lately is that the Spark EV will be...

  • Chevrolet Spark EV Development Testing in Southern California, March 2012
    Chevrolet Spark EV Tested In California, Details Unavailable

    It used to be that testing prototype and development cars was done in secret, under heavy camouflage, away from photographers. Now it's a public relations ploy, it seems, complete with QR codes on the sides of distinctively marked engineering vehicles and a promotional blog entry. So if you see...

  • A123 lithium-ion cells

    Lithium-ion cell maker A123 Systems announced today that it would supply complete battery packs to Tata Motors, the largest vehicle maker in India, to be used in hybrid systems for commercial vehicles. The lithium-ion battery packs will first be deployed in city transit buses in the latter half of this year. Tata did not discuss further applications of the battery packs. "A123 Systems' core lithium-ion technology has a proven track record of success in the hybrid truck and bus segment," said Timothy Leverton, the head of advanced and product engineering at Tata Motors. "The modularity of...

  • 2013 Chevrolet Spark shown at Los Angeles Auto Show, Nov 2011
    2013 Chevrolet Spark: Details, Live Photos From L.A. Auto Show

    It's the smallest car ever sold as a Chevrolet. It's already a huge hit in India (where it's fitted with a tiny 0.9-liter three-cylinder turbodiesel). And now it's coming to the U.S. At this week's Los Angeles Auto Show media days, the 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar shared the stage with a Chevrolet...

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    GM To Build Electric Motor For Chevy Spark EV Domestically

    Chevrolet announced today that it would build the electric motor for its upcoming Spark EV battery electric car in a plant in Maryland. The carmaker also released the power specification for the motor, which will offer 85 kilowatts (114 hp) of peak output and roughly two-thirds of that in sustained...

  • 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar unveiled in Detroit, October 2011
    Where Will Chevy Spark EV Be Built? Maybe It's Michigan?

    Two weeks ago, Chevrolet unveiled its 2013 Spark minicar and confirmed that it would offer a Spark EV all-electric model--a story GreenCarReports broke the night before. But within a few days, an intriguing question came up: Where does GM plan to build its first new all-electric car since the late...

  • 2013 Chevrolet Spark EV dashboard
    Chevy Spark EV: Four Times The Electric Range? RLY? Errr, No

    We love our readers, because they often have eagle eyes far more acute than our own. Take, for instance, Neal Riley. Reading our article on the 2013 Chevrolet Spark launch, which included official confirmation of the news on the all-electric Spark EV model that we broke last night, he asked: If the...

  • 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar unveiled in Detroit, October 2011
    GM Officially Confirms 2013 Chevy Spark Minicar, Spark EV Electric Version

    General Motors has just officially, finally confirmed news that this site has previously reported: The 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar will be launched in the first half of next year An all-electric Spark EV model will be offered in selected regions of the U.S. and other markets New front-end styling...

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