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Wednesday, May 27
GM Builds the First Chevrolet Volt
By Chuck Squatriglia General Motors started building the first pre-production Chevrolet Volt electric vehicles today. The significant milestone marks the first time engineers are assembling a vehicle that looks like the car slated to start rolling off ...
Monday, May 25
Breathing Batteries Bring Big Benefits
A typical lithium ion battery like that of the Chevrolet Volt (pictured) contains an anode of graphite, a cathode of lithium cobalt oxide (or another compound, such as lithium manganese) and a lithium salt electrolyte. Lithium ions move between the ...
Wednesday, Apr 1
Feds Say the Volt Won't Save GM
General Motors has all but bet its future on the Chevrolet Volt, but the government says the range-extended electric vehicle won't save the beleaguered automaker. We'll See a Chevrolet Volt in JuneDesign Under Constraint: How to Design A Streamlined, Mass-Produced Electric CarThe Vo...
Saturday, Mar 7
Tucson Latest Testbed for Nissan's Electric Cars
Such an infrastructure isn't of much use without cars to plug into it, so Nissan will provide an undisclosed number of EVs to public and private fleets when the car goes into production in 2010. That promises to be a big year for cars with cords, with General Motors promising the Chevrolet Vo...
Sunday, Jan 25
Tesla Motors Joins Daimler On a Smart EV
Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk says his electric vehicle start-up has signed a deal to provide Daimler with the battery technology that will power 1,000 electric Smart city cars could be on the road by the end of the year. Photo: Daimler.
Thursday, Jan 15
GM Promises a 40-mpg City Car And a Cadillac Volt
First and second photos / North American International Auto Show. All others / GM. See Also: Detroit Auto Show a Leaner, Greener Affair And the North American Car of the Year Is... Korean The Chevrolet Volt Isn't a Prius. It Might Even Be Better. The Chevrolet Beat - An Aveo We Could Love.
Thursday, Dec 11
Detroit Rarely Misses a Chance to Miss a Chance
To their credit, the Big Three arebuilding smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. General Motors has more models that exceed 30 mpg than any other automaker, and it offers more hybrids than Toyota. Ford's new EcoBoost engines deliver a 20 percent improvement in fuel economy and a 15 percent r...
GM CEO Rolling Up Capitol Hill In a Chevy Volt
See Also: The Chevy Volt Will Save GM (And Get the Girl) The Volt Isn't a Prius. It Might Even Be Better. Exclusive: Inside the Design Process of the Volt 34,520 People and Counting Want a Volt Bob Lutz: Volt Is the U.S. Car Industry's Moon Shot
Monday, Nov 24
For Hyundai, Blue Is the New Green
Hyundai is late to the hybrid party, rolling out its first gas-electric car well after Toyota and Honda introduce their third-generation hybrids and Chevrolet plans to offer its range-extended electric car. Hyundai hopes to make up for lost time by delivering batteries it says are bett...
Wednesday, Nov 19
Despite Gloom, L.A. Auto Show Looks to the Future
See Also: All-Electric Mini Unveiled!Title Chrysler's Shocking Promise: An EV By 2010 The Volt Isn't a Prius. It Might Even Be Better. A New Insight From Honda Brings Hybrids to the Masses The 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid made history at the Ford 400 NASCAR race when it became the first hybrid to s...
Monday, Nov 17
The Chevy Volt Will Save GM (And Get The Girl)
The Prius, like the Honda Civic and forthcoming Honda Insight, is a parallel hybridthat uses both an electric motor and a gasoline engine to drive the wheels. The Volt, on the other hand, is a series hybrid. Like the Prius, it's got an electric motor and a four-cylinder gasoline engine, but t...
