Chevy News Articles
40 MPG Is New Norm for Small Cars
Is the line between gas-electric hybrids and small internal-combustion-only cars starting to blur? On Monday, Ford announced that the 2011 Ford Fiesta equipped with the 6-speed automatic transmission will be rated at 40 miles per gallon on the highway. It’s not official yet, but the Chevrolet Cruze Eco is also expected to join the 40-mpg [...]Chevy Volt and the Cost of Bravery
General Motors can’t catch a break with its green car plans. As hybrids steadily gained market share in the first half of this decade, the company stayed out of the game. As late as 2003, Bob Lutz, the company’s product chief, said that hybrids don’t make “economic or environmental sense.” When GM finally stepped forward, [...]GM Announces 2013 Chevrolet Spark EV
Yesterday GM announced it would make an electrified version of its Spark minicar – its first full EV since the EV1. The company said the Spark EV will start out as a limited production offering in select global and U.S. markets, beginning in 2013. “The Spark EV offers customers living in urban areas who have [...]Chevy Volt February Sales Rank It 10th Out of 55 Clean Energy Vehicles
February sales of 1,023 Chevrolet Volts placed the extended-range electric car as the tenth best selling alternative-energy vehicle in North America out of a field of at least 55 “green” vehicles offered by all major manufacturers. The Volt reached this number despite extremely overblown negative media coverage including from a raft of critics willfully misrepresenting [...]Continental’s Mantra: Sustainability, Safety, and Connectivity
Carmakers spend big bucks to establish their brands as leaders in the race toward greater fuel efficiency and reduced emissions. Yet, many of the eco-friendly and high-tech innovations in our vehicles begin in the R&D departments of large auto suppliers—the companies that supply components and systems to automobile manufacturers. For example, you might know Continental [...]Bob Lutz Slams 'Right-Wing Talk Show Guys' Over Volt
He makes no bones about being a Republican. Yet Bob Lutz, even though he might not work for General Motors anymore, still has plenty of choice words for some fellow Republicans, specifically “the right wing talk show guys,” whom he feels helped put a real kink in the Chevy Volt’s sales curve. During an interview [...]Chevy Announces Malibu Price, Will Release Eco Before Standard Model
General Motors announced this week that its forthcoming Chevy Malibu Eco will be priced to start at $25,995―including a $760 destination charge. The Malibu Eco will be rated 37 on the highway and 25 mpg in the city, for a combined EPA rating of about 29 mpg when it hits dealerships in the first quarter [...]Exclusive: Chevy Volt Is More Hybrid Than Previously Thought
For the first 40 miles, the Chevy Volt is all electric. For the next 300 miles, it’s some blend of EV and hybrid. When GM first introduced the Chevy Volt concept in 2007, it invented a new term to describe how the car works: extended-range electric vehicle (ER-EV). It was a tactic to distance the [...]Can Chevrolet's Volt Help Win The War On Terror?
The above headline is not our question, but one posed by Fox News, which gave a fair platform to Texas media executive Lee Spieckerman to share from a conservative viewpoint why the Volt should make sense to all Americans. As Spieckerman observes, Fox has at times made it a mission to denigrate the car as [...]Long-time GM Consultant: Chevy Volt Won’t Save Company
Unless General Motors makes fundamental changes in its basic decision-making process, the company will be “back at the public trough again and again until the public finally grows weary and allows its demise.” That’s the view of Rob Kleinbaum, an auto industry business consultant who has worked or consulted for GM for the last 24 [...]