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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 [...]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 [...]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 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 [...]Some Chevrolet Volt Owners Hardly Use Gas At All
Chevrolet proudly stated today that many Volt owners are consistently achieving the published EPA-estimated mileage of 98 MPGe gasoline-free miles, and many are even exceeding it. At the same time, Chevrolet said that “their experience contributes to an out worldly total of 150 million electric-powered Volt driving miles – roughly the distance from Earth to [...]Cruze Diesel Rated At 46 MPG
Chevrolet announced the new 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel delivers an EPA-estimated 46 MPG on the highway. Chevrolet said this is better than any non-hybrid passenger car in America. The diesel version of the Cruze sedan will be available in certain cities this spring and nationwide and in Canada in early fall. Equipped with a [...]Best Answers to the Riddle of 230 MPG
Taking its place right next to other great existential riddles—such as “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”—GM’s claim that the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid will get 230 mpg left journalists bewildered about its meaning. GM executives said they used a preliminary EPA methodology to determine the MPG of the Volt which uses only [...]Production Chevrolet Volt Photos 'Leaked'
The Chevrolet Volt, GM’s upcoming “extended-range electric vehicle,” has generated advance interest like few other cars this decade. First shown at the Detroit auto show in January 2007 as a radically styled concept car, it has evolved into a production vehicle—slated to be in showrooms in November 2010—at the same time its lithium-ion battery pack [...]GM Cuts Current Mild Hybrid System, Prepares for Another
General Motors announced that it will stop making mild hybrid versions of the Chevrolet Malibu and Saturn Aura in the United States, and will phase out production of the Buick LaCrosse mild hybrid in China. The elimination of its current mild hybrid technology is one more sign that the company is cutting back on programs [...]Chevy and Clean Diesels Hit Greenest Car List
The Honda Civic GX, a vehicle that runs on compressed natural gas, was named last week as the greenest car of the year by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The Toyota Prius and Honda Civic Hybrid claimed spots two and three in ACEEE’s annual environmental rankings—the Green Book Online—followed by the [...]