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Monday, Nov 2
Webchat: Chevrolet Volt Leadership Change
Frank Weber and Doug Parks, Volt Team Leadership Change Global electric vehicle development chief Frank Weber is moving back to Europe to join the Opel/Vauxhall senior leadership team and Doug Parks will takeover the reigns of the Chevrolet Volt development team on Dec. 2. Doug was the gl...
Monday, Oct 19
The Real MOTOR City
By Tony Posawatz Chevrolet Volt Vehicle Line Director But with vehicles like the Chevrolet Volt going into production at the Detroit Hamtramck Assembly Plant next year, GM is helping put the motor with electric motors and electrified propulsion back into the Motor City.
Thursday, Oct 15
Webchat: Making Electric Vehicles Attractive to Consumers
Tony Posawatz, Chevy Volt and Felix Kramer, California Cars Institute One of the big questions surrounding electric vehicles is how many will actually make it to market and when. Chevy Volt Vehicle Line Director Tony Posawatz and California Cars Initiative founder Felix Kramer will an...
Coskata Achieves an Important Milestone
With more than 5 million flex-fuel cars and trucks built globally and 3.5 million in the U.S. alone, Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac lead the world in offering customers a fueling choice of gasoline, E85 ethanol or any combination of the two. We have 17 FFVs this year, and that number will gr...
Wednesday, Oct 14
Let’s Be Frank About Climate Change
We’re addressing climate change on many fronts, especially as it relates to vehicle and engine technology. This includes expanding these technologies to provide turbocharging, active fuel management and six-speed transmissions across our lineup, which improves the efficiency of...
Wednesday, Oct 7
A Good Start
Ninety days ago, we launched the new GM with a clean balance sheet, an improved cost structure and fewer U.S. dealers, brands and nameplates. Since then, we’ve introduced a number of new, fuel-efficient, highly successful cars and crossovers, started work on a new facility to build advanc...
Tuesday, Sep 22
GM Helping to “Electrify” India
GM in India, and around the world, has been working on a variety of alternative propulsion strategies designed to meet the needs and capabilities of various markets. For example, GM has done extensive work in biofuels, including biodiesel and ethanol in markets such as India, Brazil and...
Thursday, Aug 20
Webchat: Gery Kissel on the Chevrolet Volt’s Charging Equipment
Today from 2-3 p.m. EDT, join us for a live chat with Gery Kissel. Gery is an engineering specialist who worked on the new charging equipment for the Chevrolet Volt. He also attended Plug-In 2009, a conference about the future of electric vehicles, and can answer your questions about that as we...
Tuesday, Aug 11
Bob Lutz on the Chevy Volt’s Fuel Economy Rating
General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz weighs in on today’s announcement that the Chevy Volt will get at least 230 mpg (city) using the draft EPA federal fuel economy methodology and will get more than 100 mpg combined (city/hwy.) You can read Bob’s thoughts at ChevroletVoltAge. - Will Stew...
Friday, Jul 24
Webchat: Bob Boniface Talks About the Chevrolet Volt’s Design
Webchat with Bob Boniface Bob Boniface, Design Director for the Chevrolet Volt is interested in talking about the vehicle’s design and hearing what you would like to see next. Join us on Tuesday, July 28, from 2:00 – 3:00-p.m. EDT for the webchat discussion. Webchat with Bob Boniface
Tuesday, Jul 21
Webchat: Jon Lauckner Answers Your Volt Questions
Jon Lauckner, Chevrolet Volt Founding Father Jon Lauckner, GM’s Vice President of Global Program Management, and one of the Chevy Volt’s founding fathers, will answer your questions during a webchat here on FastLane. This is a great opportunity to get information about the Volt and the...
Thursday, Jul 16
Welcome to VoltAge
By Ed PeperU.S. Vice President, Chevrolet I’d like to introduce you to ChevroletVoltAge, a place for you to share your thoughts and opinions on the electrification of the automobile. The vision for this site is twofold: to inform and engage concerned individuals about the movement toward...
Tuesday, Jul 14
Webchat: Global Design with Ed Welburn
Ed Welburn heads up global design for GM. He and his team are responsible for designing every GM concept and production car and truck including: Cadillac CTS and SRX; Chevrolet Volt, Camaro and Equinox; and Buick LaCrosse. He’s interested in discussing the role that design has in the new GM...
Thursday, Jun 25
Webchat: Andrew Farah Answers Your Volt Questions
Chevrolet Volt vehicle chief engineer Andrew Farah took the first pre-production Volt for a spin this week and will be on FastLane to chat live with you about it at 4 p.m. EDT today. Chevrolet Volt Vehicle Chief Engineer Andrew Farah Chevrolet Volt vehicle chief engineer Andrew Farah took th...
Wednesday, Jun 24
First Pre-production Chevrolet Volt Charges Ahead … of Schedule
By Andrew Farah Chevrolet Volt Vehicle Chief Engineer Nearly two years ago, we put plans in motion to begin building the first pre-production Chevrolet Volts in May 2009. Back in February of this year, I hung a countdown clock on my office wall. It read 99 days, 23 hours and 59 minutes. The coun...
Tuesday, Jun 23
GM = Green Motors?
Electric vehicles have high up-front capital requirements. How are you going to make electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt profitably? How are you going to get people back into American cars - how do you convince them that American cars are reliable?
Wednesday, Jun 17
More Follow-up Responses from Fritz
Also, remember that the Volt isn’t like a typical hybrid. The Volt has an electric drivetrain with an engine generator that sustains the battery charge when the battery is depleted, so it still drives electrically even when the engine is running. Most other hybrids have both engines and ba...
Tuesday, Jun 9
I’m Not Ambivalent About Ambivalence
By Bob Lutz GM Vice Chairman I need to clear up something that appeared over the weekend in one of America’s major remaining newspapers, The Washington Post. In a very long, very prominent front-page article about General Motors and the Chevrolet Volt, the Post reporter painted a picture...
Tuesday, Jun 2
Keeping the Conversation Open
As for product, I don’t think you need to look any further that Cadillac CTS (Motor Trend Car of the Year), Chevrolet Malibu (North American Car of the Year), Opel Insignia (European Car of the Year) or Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, Camaro and Corvette or our class leading pickup tru...
Saturday, May 30
Small Cars to be Built at Idled UAW-GM Plant
Beyond making sense from a market demand standpoint, this new capability will also help us meet the new fuel efficiency standards the President just announced. We intend to be the greenest automaker in the world, and along with upcoming vehicles like the Chevy Volt and Chevy Cruze, this n...
Sunday, May 24
Webchat: Journalists to Discuss the Volt
Chevrolet Volt Webchat with The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press Last week, auto critics Scott Burgess of The Detroit News and Mark Phelan of the Detroit Free Press had the opportunity to drive the Chevrolet Volt engineering development vehicles - Chevy Cruze bodies with GM’s Voltec...
Thursday, May 21
Bob Lutz Shows Off the Chevy Volt on Letterman
You might remember a couple of weeks back, we published a post from Bob Lutz about David Letterman’s misunderstanding of the Chevy Volt. Dave had made some underinformed statements about the Volt on a previous show that had us “all charged up,” so Bob offered some of the information we thou...
Friday, May 1
Stupid Human Trick
I would like to personally invite Dave to come learn more about the Volt, including the hugely important but unmentioned-by-him fact that its range is 40 purely electric miles plus several hundred more miles thanks to its range-extender. Dave may drive more than 40 miles a day on his commu...
Sunday, Apr 26
Tough But Necessary Steps to Restructure GM
By Fritz Henderson GM President and CEO Technology: Finally, despite the challenging business conditions, we’re keeping development of our mainstream alternative technology vehicles on track, including the much-anticipated Chevrolet Volt.
Thursday, Apr 16
Plug-in Standards Necessary for Consumer Acceptance of Electric Vehicles Like the Chevy Volt
In order for plug-in electric vehicles to become part of the mainstream, a plug-in “ecosystem” must be in place when vehicles like the Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle hit the market. And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are pl...
Tuesday, Feb 10
Engineering the Chevy Volt for Maximum Efficiency
I read the newspapers and blogs frequently, and as many in the media have reported, the auto industry is “all charged up” about electric vehicles - fuel cells, hybrids, plug-in hybrids, battery electric vehicles and especially, extended range electric vehicles like the Chevrolet Vol...
Friday, Jan 23
Electric Vehicles Take Center Stage at Auto Show, But Other Technologies Not Forgotten
As the 2009 North American International Auto Show comes to a close this weekend, there’s no doubt it has been decidedly about electric propulsion this year, especially for GM with the production Chevy Volt, the concept Cadillac Converj and battery pack manufacturing in Michigan.
Sunday, Jan 11
Luxury Becomes Electric
This morning at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, we unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept car, a luxury touring coupe powered by a further development of the Chevrolet Volt’s electric propulsion technology, which we’re now calling Voltec.
Thursday, Dec 18
Update on the Chevy Volt
As an example, shown below is a picture of Rick Wagoner with one of our latest Volt development vehicles in Washington, D.C. These Generation II prototypes have a production-intent propulsion system and battery pack in a Chevrolet Cruze body. In fact, we finished building the last of the 33...
Friday, Dec 12
Project Driveway Update
Plus, the knowledge we’ve gained during the program on the fuel cell itself directly impacts the development of the Chevrolet Volt battery. Just like the Volt battery, fuel cells have several hundred repeating elements that need to be thermally managed, and we are applying the fuel cell...
Friday, Nov 21
Volt: The Next Phase
Bob Lutz, GM vice chairman of Global Product Development recently took a drive and checked on the progress of the Chevrolet Volt at the company’s Milford (Michigan) Proving Grounds. The electric propulsion system is now installed in GM’s future global compact car architecture for deve...
Tuesday, Nov 18
An Open Letter to Thomas L. Friedman
In fact, 13 of our last 15 new product launches in the U.S. were cars or crossovers, and 18 of our next 19 new products will be, as well. Mr. Friedman, we also think you’ll be particularly interested in the huge progress we are making to develop a broad range of advanced propulsion technologies. Fo...
