Chevy News Articles
Opel Ampera Orders Surpass 7,000 units
GM’s European subsidiary, Opel, has found the going tough in recent years. Struggling with high labor costs in its native country Germany and limited opportunity for expansion against such rivals as Volkswagen and Ford, Opel has finally received some good news, at least on the EV front. Besides winning the coveted European Car of the [...]2014 Chevrolet Impala Production Starts; 35 MPG With eAssist
The all-new 2014 Impala, Chevrolet’s flagship sedan, began rolling off the production line at the Oshawa Assembly plant today. The 2014 Impala has several new features, including the company’s light electrification technology named eAssist; and Adaptive Cruise Control and crash-avoidance technologies like Rear Cross Traffic Alert and Side Blind Zone Alert. Three direct-injection engine choices [...]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 [...]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 Will Have "Mountain Mode"
Larry Nitz, GM’s director of hybrid electric power engineering, today said that the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid will have a “mountain mode,” as a standard feature, in addition to the normal and sport mode. In a conference call with journalists, Nitz said the new mode will allow Volt drivers to set a larger reserve capacity [...]GM Showcases Latest Electric Test and Demo Car in India
Experimental electric vehicle conversions last year by General Motors in Korea, Germany and as of last week in India, have some wondering when the company will create a pure battery electric to compete against the likes of the Nissan LEAF and pending Ford Focus EV. On Thursday June 23, GM began displaying and testing an [...]Sprinting to year's end, GM lets dealers sell Volt demos
General Motors has a goal to meet: Since the Volt’s launch, the company has said it will sell 10,000 in North America for its first calendar year, and it has two months to make up half that amount. From January through October, it sold 5,003 Chevy Volts in North America. It is now well underway [...]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 [...]President Obama Says He Will Buy a Chevy Volt
You’ve heard of campaign promises? A commitment made by a jovial President Obama could be called one for after his term in office at which point he said he will buy a Chevy Volt. Mentioning to the United Auto Workers his famous visit to the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant from which many photos of him sitting [...]GM to Volt Suppliers: Get Us 100 MPG
General Motors sees the upcoming Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid as perhaps the best example of the company’s technical prowess—and as a powerful symbol of the company’s ability to turn itself around. At last month’s Chicago Auto Show, GM added another dimension to the Volt story: the push for suppliers to develop energy-saving components in every [...]