Chevy News Articles
GM Halts Volt Production To Realign Supply to Demand
As we documented earlier today, General Motors had been saying it would match Chevrolet Volt supply to demand, and in keeping with this assertion it is now it is saying it will shut down its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant for five weeks from Mar. 19-April 23. Dealers had around 6,300 units on hand nationally at the [...]Opel To Enter Amperas In Monte Carlo Rally
As Opel continues the launch of its sibling to the Chevy Volt, the European automaker said it will provide six Opel Amperas to compete in the international Rally Monte Carlo. Their debut will be at the famous rally’s “Alternative Energy” version, which begins in Annecy-le-Vieux, Clermont-Ferrand and Lugano on March 22 and finishes three days [...]Chevy Volt Design Details Slowly Emerge
Bob Boniface, director of design for the Volt, showed side-by-side comparisons between the concept and the production vehicle. (Photo: John Voelcker. All rights reserved.) Traverse City, Michigan – Continuing to tease the public and the media with details on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, the car’s designer today showed a handful of slides that revealed further [...]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 [...]Volt Plant Shutdown to be Cut Short as Plug-in Sales Rise
Following a record sales month for the Chevrolet Volt, General Motors has said it will cut the time out it has given its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant from five weeks down to four. GM North America President Mark Reuss told the Detroit News the company is heartened by 2,289 Volts sold in March, and expects the [...]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 [...]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 [...]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 [...]Top Five Insights from Our First Drive of Chevy Volt
General Motors yesterday gave electric car enthusiasts and a handful of journalists an opportunity to spin the Chevy Volt around a parking lot next to San Francisco’s AT&T Park. HybridCars.com had its first two or three minutes behind the wheel, spoke with the Volt team, and came away with these insights. 1The EV miles are [...]Key to Hybrid Minivans: Getting Small
When will we ever get a hybrid gas-electric minivan? That’s been the most frequent question over the years from hopeful (but frustrated) hybrid shoppers. After all, they say, Japan has had hybrid minivans for about a decade. The explanation that Japan’s minivans are much smaller than US models—and therefore better suited for Toyota and Honda [...]