Chevy News Articles
Realities Behind Obama’s Electric Car Photo Op
When President Barack Obama walked into Southern California Edison’s electric-vehicle test facility in Pomona today, he visited what may be the highest concentration of electric vehicles in North America. It was a photo op, of course. The president’s goal, said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, was to highlight the role of plug-in cars in creating [...]Two Tours in Iraq Give One Ex-Marine a New Perspective On Saving Fuel
In the past, it was more common to hear of military personnel who’d served overseas and couldn’t wait to get home and spend their hard-earned money on a new car. However in many cases, said car was often something sporty and perhaps a bit frivolous. Tales abound of returning GIs from Vietnam forking out on [...]Magna E-Car Systems and GM Test Electric Crossovers in Canada
Last week Magna E-Car Systems and General Motors of Canada announced a joint project to evaluate a fleet of nine battery electric Chevrolet Equinox crossovers. The converted vehicles are to be studied by a number of interested stakeholders as a step toward possibly producing these types of electric vehicles. “Collaboration between automakers, suppliers, utility companies [...]Studies Question Plug-in Hybrid Mileage
A new study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University says that plug-in hybrids with 40 miles of all-electric range are less cost-effective than hybrids with smaller battery packs. “Forty miles might be a sweet spot for making sure a lot of people get to work without using gasoline, but you’re doing it at a cost that [...]GM Loans Volts in Effort to Win Over Doubters
In testimony before a Congress earlier this year, General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called the Chevy Volt “a political punching bag”―a characterization that few who have followed the vehicle since its release could argue with. Whether the sedan is being tied to the controversial auto bailouts, targeted by Darrell Issa investigations, or called “a car [...]GM Sneaks Spark EVs Around LA Hidden In Plain Sight
In official GM blog posts, Chevrolet highlighted brief info about its 2013 Spark EV suggesting it’s good for over 106 miles range, though actually, GM is not saying what the true range is. The cars – camouflaged then driven in a caravan in open view and highlighted by a brief YouTube video – will build [...]Chevrolet Spark EV Will Be Made In South Korea
Today we learned from General Motors that the pending 2013 Chevy Spark EV will be imported from South Korea where it will be made alongside the standard global platform Spark. “The Spark EV will be produced in Changwon, South Korea, the same location as the Spark with the internal combustion engine,” said GM’s Randy Fox, [...]In Global Move, GM to Offer Diesel-Version of Chevy Cruze
According to GMInsideNews.com, an independent website, General Motors will begin selling the Chevy Cruze with a diesel-engine option for the 2013 model year. It will be the company’s first diesel-powered passenger car in U.S. in decades. Workers at the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant where the Cruze is built were told about the diesel model last [...]Face Off: GM and Better Place on Electric Car Services
The first mainstream cars that plug into the electric grid are not expected for another year—but the battle to provide charging and battery services to those early adopters is already heating up. The tension between two companies which might provide those services was palpable on Monday during a panel discussion in Palo Alto, Calif., entitled [...]First Plug-in Hybrid in US: An Italian Scooter
Piaggio Group, the maker of Vespa scooters, said that it will sell a plug-in hybrid scooter in the United States by early 2010. If the company delivers on its plans, it will be the first plug-in hybrid vehicle on American roads—beating the Chevrolet Volt by six months or more. The combined fuel economy will be [...]