Chevy News Articles
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 [...]Volt Teardown Reveals High-Tech Upgradability
A three-day teardown and cataloging of components from a Chevy Volt has shown its electronic controls to be exceedingly sophisticated and apparently designed for future upgrades. Performed by a team of automotive engineers for Munro & Associates of suburban Detroit and attended by Reuters and EE Times, this sort of thing is more often done [...]First Drive: Chevrolet Cruze Eco
Hybrids are a great way to max out on MPG, but a new breed of conventional gas-powered cars are promising better than 40 miles to the gallon—at least on the highway. The all-new Chevrolet Cruze Eco, due out in late 2010, is one of those contenders. Last week, we gave it our first drive on [...]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 [...]The Rallying Cry for Electric Fuel
page 2 of 2 “Number three is the need to present a common front in terms of public policy. We need to find a reasonable incentive to level the playing field between the technology that exists today, and has an 80 to 100 year install base of capacity and intellectual property and development—against the new [...]Obama Calls for 1 Million Plug-in Hybrids by 2015
Kicking off what campaign advisors have dubbed “energy week,” Barack Obama today called for an “end to the age of oil in our time.” He backed up his trademark optimism with the most dramatic auto technology proposals of the 2008 campaign cycle. Obama said he hopes to see 1 million plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles [...]High-Mileage Chevy Small-Car in the Offing
GM’s next-generation Chevy small-car will vault the company into the 40 mpg range, according to industry insiders. Spy photographers have captured the front-drive car in action, powered by a turbocharged 1.4-liter engine. Originally planned as the next-generation Cobalt subcompact due in 2010, it will now get is own name and be put forward as part [...]Chevy Sonic Gets 40 MPG on the Highway, Is Less Impressive in the City
General Motors has announced that the 1.4-liter turbo edition of its forthcoming Chevy Sonic subcompact will achieve fuel economy of 29 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway, for an expected combined EPA rating of 32 mpg. Automatic and manual transmission 1.8-liter, non-turbocharged versions of the Sonic will also be available when [...]GM Sneaks Spark EVs Around LA Hidden In Plain Sight
In official GM blog posts, Chevrolet highlighted brief info about its 2013 Spark EV suggesting it’s good for over 106 miles range, though actually, GM is not saying what the true range is. The cars – camouflaged then driven in a caravan in open view and highlighted by a brief YouTube video – will build [...]GM Readies Volt Batteries for Road Testing
Later this month, General Motors will begin real-world testing a fleet of Chevrolet Malibus outfitted with lithium ion battery technology—as part of a push to bring the Chevrolet Volt concept vehicle to market. GM is targeting November 2010 to begin selling the Volt, a plug-in hybrid designed to travel up to 40 miles strictly on [...]