Chevrolet Volt News
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The big battery and advanced vehicle grant announcement yesterday which includes $2.4 billion in funds to battery development and alternative drive vehicles under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has hit Michigan hard, but this time Michigan comes out a winner. The state of Michigan including the Big Three automakers will be awarded $1.3 billion of the total $2.4 billion in grants. Of the $1.5 billion in funding set aside for battery development, Michigan companies will receive $996 million in support. The Big Three will receive funding broken down as follows; GM will received...
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GM May Use eBay to Sell First Chevy VoltsThe Chevrolet Volt electric car will be launched in November 2010. Initial copies of the vehicle will be built in limited supply. This is for quality ramp up purposes and to assure everything is working properly on this groundbreaking vehicle. GM recently announced it had formed a new...
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Toyota To Produce Up To 30,000 Plug-In Hybrids In 2012
The Nikkei Business Daily has reported that Toyota plans to produce between 20,000 and 30,000 plug-in hybrids in 2012. The Japanese automaker has already committed to leasing 500 plug-ins for government and corporate use by the end of this year. The plan is hardly a surprise. While traditional...
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Pre-Production Chevrolet Volt Spotted On Streets of Detroit
The Volt Moves Closer To Being A Production Reality
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Drive Report: 2010 Mitsubishi i-MiEV Electric Car
Last week, we wrote that the smash success of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV is leading the company to plan five additional electric cars. We've now driven electric-car prototypes from a number of automakers: a 2011 Chevrolet Volt mule, the 2012 Nissan EV prototype, the 2012 Ford Focus EV prototype, and the...
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2011 Jaguar XJ To Be Latest Luxury Hybrid?
A gas-electric version of Jaguar's big sedan is in the works--and owes something to the Chevrolet Volt.
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After months of avoiding bankruptcy like the plague, a new advertisement from General Motors tells us it's not so bad after all. The "Reinvention" commercial (see the video below) pairs nationalistic imagery with a message of a company determined to sell better, more relevant cars. "There was a time when eight different brands made sense. Not anymore. There was a time when our cost structure could compete worldwide. Not anymore," says a hidden dramatic voice. (The ad doesn't elaborate as to when eight badge engineered brands made sense. Pre-Toyota perhaps?) The voice proceeds to describe the...
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GM Expands Battery Lab, US Gears Up To Make Lithium Cells
General Motors has enlarged and expanded the battery laboratory at its Warren, Michigan, technical center. The new lab, the company said today, is the largest and most advanced such site in North America. The lab was first shown to the public last summer as the site where packs for the 2011...
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2011 Chevrolet Volt: Giving Ordinary A Good Name
The Remarkable Part Is How Unremarkable It Is To Drive
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Small Cars Might Not Save GM From Bankruptcy or Saturn From Becoming Foreign
15 Years Can Do a Lot To a Car Company
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Bob Lutz Describes the Difference Between the Tesla and the Chevrolet Volt
200 Miles for $100,000 or 40 Miles for $40,000?
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Lutz sets Letterman Straight
Some time ago, when Tesla founder Elon Musk appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, he told Letterman the Chevrolet Volt had a maximum range of only 40 miles, which is completely incorrect. Regardless, once Dave Letterman starts bad-mouthing the range of the Volt, true or not, people start...
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General Motors has confirmed that former vice chairman, Bob Lutz, will bring the Chevy Volt to the Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday. This comes after Letterman ripped the Volt during an April 29 episode which featured Tesla Motors CEO, Elon Musk, and his all-electric Model S Sedan. The sardonic comedian chided GM and criticized the Volt's 40-mile electric-only range, saying "That'll get you down the driveway and back. That's crap!" Lutz fired back on the GM FastLane Blog, writing, "Now, if he is that uninformed, I must point out that it's not his fault, it's ours. We should do a...
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GM’s CEO Answers More Questions: We Find Out If GM Is Planning Fuller Line-ups
We Muse About the Future of GM
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2013 Chevrolet Volt SS: The Next Model (In Our Dreams)
Electric performance is great, so more electric performance would be even greater, right? In Chevy performance tradition, we got to thinking about the Volt SS ....
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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk Critical of the Chevy Volt
Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla Motors, the company that has jump started the electric car revolution. Tesla already offers a 2-seat superfast Roadster electric car, and has recently unveiled a more moderately priced 4-door Model S sedan. Tesla has never publicly admitted intentions of building an...
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GM to Build Chevy Volt Engines in Exisiting Flint Michigan Plant
An important sidebar to the story of the Chevy Volt extended-range electric car is its gasoline generator. This is used to generate electricity extend the car's driving range beyond the 40 mile capacity of its battery. When GM finally decided it would use a 1.4 L 4 cylinder engine for that role, it...
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2011 Chevrolet Volt-alike Spied in Opel Ampera Drag
Euro-Volt to get airing at the Geneva motor show.
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Included in the restructuring plan GM provided to the U.S. Treasury on Tuesday was mention of their intent to build two new Extended Range Electric Vehicles (EREVs) using the same technology as their much-anticipated Chevrolet Volt. The Volt, which will be available for purchase late next year, will run for 40 miles on a single electric charge, without using a drop of gas. Details are sketchy, but one of the two future EREVs may be the Opel Ampera, which will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor show next month. In the restructuring plan, GM states that they plan to significantly invest in...
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GM: Give us plugs, we'll sell you Volts
The Chevrolet Volt will launch in cities that provide EV infrastructure: public charging points, lower electricity prices, and more
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Next Generation Chevy Volt MSRP Targeted at $20,000
GM-Volt.com has reported an original interview with GM advanced technology engineer Nick Zielinksi. Zielinski was asked if the second generation Chevy Volt would have a price goal around $20,000 and stated "you’re pretty much describing our plans for Gen 2. Looking to improve efficiency, maintain...
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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...
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The Right Cord for the Electric Car
Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid If you envision your future electric car being connected to the wall with the standard bright orange extension cord, you're living in the past. The growing interest in electric vehicles is already leading to advances in cord technology. To make sure that there's no Blu-Ray...
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Even Automakers Think Hybrids Are Too Expensive
According to yesterday's Washington Post, all those Priuses Toyota has been selling aren't making them much money. Rumor has it that those touted hybrid SUVs General Motors has been parading aren't turning profits either. What about the Chevy Volt? In June, GM Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz, said that the...
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