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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 ...
Saturday, Apr 25
Schwarzenegger Praises Green Hummer
Raser Technologies and its partner FEV plan to do just that by converting the H3 into a range-extended electric vehicle that works a lot like the Chevrolet Volt and Fisker Karma. Hybrid Hummer Promises 100 MPGWe'll See a Chevrolet Volt in June
Friday, Apr 17
Hybrid Hummer Promises 100 Miles per Gallon
Because SUVs are popular but get lousy fuel economy, they're great candidates for electrification, said Jim Spellman, company vice president. Spellman came to Raser from General Motors, where he worked on the Chevrolet Tahoe hybrid.
Tuesday, Apr 14
GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent'
General Motors is pouring money into the Chevrolet Volt but concedes it won't make money on the range-extended electric vehicle anytime soon. Feds Say the Volt Won't Save GMWe'll See a Chevrolet Volt in JuneDesign Under Constraint: How to Build a Streamlined, Mass-Produced Electric Ca...
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.
Plug In To The World's Quietest Inaugural Parade
The familiar benefits of a plug-in fleet include reduced emissions -- yes, yes, we know most of our electricity comes from coal-fired plants. But guess what? It's still cleaner than internal combustion. And it also eases our dependence on foreign oil, which is why a bunch of plug-in cars dr...
Wednesday, Jan 7
Lotus Targets Tesla With EV of Its Own
The company says the as-yet-unnamed car will be a range-extended EV that, like the Chevrolet Volt and Fisker Karma, uses an internal combustion engine to recharge the battery as it approaches depletion. Such a car would be squarely aimed at at the Tesla Roadster and Dodge EV, two cars that...
Saturday, Jan 3
Fisker Teases Us With A Drop-Top Plug-In Hybrid
The Sunset reportedly uses the same drivetrain as the $87,000 Karma sedan, which has two electric motors that together produce 408 horsepower and a stunning 959 foot-pounds of torque. A 22.6 kW-hr lithium-ion battery provides 50 miles of all-electric range, and a 2.0-liter turbocharged...
Sunday, Dec 28
GM Puts the Volt's Engine Factory On Hold
The Volt is by far GM's most important project and a significant advancement over conventional hybrids because it relies entirely on electricity for propulsion. The gasoline engine exists only to recharge the lithium ion battery as it approaches depletion. GM says the car will deliver 4...
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
Tuesday, Nov 25
Fisker Raids GM To Build His Hybrid
A 260-horsepower four cylinder is not overkill when you want the performance of a 400-horsepower V8," Fisker told Wired.com. "The Karma electric drivetrain has 408 horsepower, so to keep the performance, acceleration and top speed of 125 mph you need a powerful generator. We are making a l...
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...
