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Homegrown GM Electric Motors Will Power Future Hybrids
An electric traction motor (right) and stator (left) at the GM’s Powertrain Engineering Development Center. General Motors said on Tuesday it will set up a $246 million facility to build electric motors to power future hybrids. The first GM-designed and built electric motors would appear in 2013 in rear-wheel-drive two-mode hybrid vehicles. “In the future, [...]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 [...]Consumer Reports Releases Plug-in Vehicle Survey Results, Says Volt Incident Misguided the General Public
In its 2012 Car Brand Perception Survey, Consumer Reports added a couple of questions to assess “America’s pulse” on plug-in vehicles. In particular, the magazine asked the general public questions pertaining mainly to plug-in vehicle safety. Of the surveyed group, 43 percent of respondents believe that plug-in vehicles feel are as safe as gasoline-fueled automobiles [...]Chevy Volt Production Line Restarts a Week Early
General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck plant is back to producing Chevy Volts and Opel/Vauxhall Amperas a week earlier than scheduled due to encouraging March Volt sales of 2,289 units. GM had shut down the plug-in hybrid’s assembly line for an initially scheduled period of five weeks to help curtail excess supply, but says it is now optimistic [...]GM Stays the Course on Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
Updated August 22, 2009 Despite little evidence that the United States federal government will continue to support hydrogen fuel cells in the future, General Motors intends to stay the course. Alan Taub, GM’s new executive director of research and development, announced last week that the carmaker will have a commercially viable powertrain for a second-generation [...]A Little Bit of Chevy Volt in Chevy Cruze
The recent announcement of the $41,000 price tag on the Chevy Volt disappointed many fans—and spurred debate about the taxpayer dollars required to bring the plug-in hybrid to life. But the new Chevrolet Cruze shows how General Motors is hedging its bets on the Volt’s high-cost components by installing them on a high-volume model. The [...]Ampera-Volt To Offer Multiple Battery Size Options
The Opel Ampera, the European version of the Chevy Volt, could be built for easy battery upgrades. Electric cars are going to be more popular in Europe than in the United States. That’s because, by and large, Europeans have higher gas taxes, denser urban centers, greater consumer acceptance of smaller cars, and more aggressive carbon [...]Already A World Hit, Chevy Cruze Makes U.S. Debut In September
Chevrolet’s Cruze is, well, Cruisin’. Since its launch in Europe in the spring of 2009, Chevy’s first global compact car has racked up a total of 270,000 sales in more than 60 countries. Add another 70,000 sales with versions from Holden in Australia and Daewoo in South Korea. Is 40 MPG A New Trend? The [...]Chevy Volt Gets Solo HOV Lane Status in California
After the sensationalism of last year’s post-federal crash test battery fires, the Chevrolet Volt has something to smile about once again, thanks to the state of California finally approving the car for solo motoring in freeway High Occupancy Vehicle (carpool) lanes. Initially, the Volt had been disqualified, much to the chagrin of General Motors, though [...]Chevy Will Temporarily Halt Volt Production Due to Sluggish Sales
General Motors has announced that it will cease production on the Chevy Volt for five weeks, beginning in mid-March and lasting until late-April. “We’re taking a temporary shutdown,” said GM spokesman Chris Lee to the Associated Press. “We’re doing it to maintain our proper inventory levels as we align production with demand.” This is the [...]