Posts Tagged ‘Volt’

  • Chevrolet Unplugs Volt and Hits the Road
    General Motors will send six Chevrolet Volts on a 3,400-mile cross-country tour to demonstrate the car’s extended-range capability and celebrate its public debut. The cross-country drive, which Chevrolet has dubbed the “Volt Unplugged” tour, will run from Oct. 9 in Seattle to Nov. 20 in Chicago. Customers will be able to test drive the Volt and meet the engineering...
    by at September 29th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
  • GM Announces Customer Advisory Board for Volt
    GM has picked 15 electric car advocates to be the first consumers to experience the Volt every day under real-world conditions during a three-month vehicle and charging evaluation program starting in late October. This exclusive group of expert consumers – referred to as the Chevrolet Volt Customer Advisory Board – is one of the final steps Chevrolet is taking to validate...
    by at September 29th, 2010 at 01:09 am
  • Chevrolet Volt Goes to China
    General Motors announced the arrival of the first drivable Chevrolet Volt extended range electric car in China. The Chevrolet Volt, which will be sold in the US from the end of this year, will go on sale in Chinese market next year. Despite earlier reports–including ours–to the contrary, General Motors plans to sell the car as a Chevrolet, rather than as a Buick–a...
    by at August 31st, 2010 at 02:08 pm
  • GM Increases Chevrolet Volt Production 50 Percent
    General Motors today said that it will increase the production capacity of the Chevrolet Volt in 2012 from 30,000 cars to 45,000. The announcement came as U.S. President Barack Obama toured the Detroit-Hamtramck facility, where the Chevrolet Volt is being produced now for sale later this year. The expanded U.S. production capacity is the latest in a series of positive...
    by at July 30th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
  • GM Includes NYC and Austin to Initial Volt Launch
    Customers in the New York and in Austin, Texas, will be among the first to have a chance to own a Chevrolet Volt when General Motors begins delivering the electric vehicle with extended-range capability. New York and Austin joins California, Michigan and Washington D.C. as the initial retail markets where Chevrolet will sell the Volt. GM’s chairman and chief executive,...
    by at June 30th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
  • First 4,400 Chevy Volt Owners Eligible for Free Home Charging Stations
    Buyers of the first 4,400 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids are eligible for free home-charging stations, the company said today. The program will provide Volt owners with a 240-volt charge station from either ECOtality, Inc. or Coulomb Technologies. In many cases, it will include the cost of home installation. The projects are made possible with a grant of American Recovery...
    by at June 17th, 2010 at 09:06 am
  • Chevrolet and OnStar to Train Emergency Responders on EV Technology
    Chevrolet has joined with OnStar and leading national first-responder organizations to announce the first automotive manufacturer-sponsored training program to educate first responders nationwide on electric vehicle technology. Chevrolet will sponsor a series of special training events for first responders over the next several months to ensure that everyone understands...
    by at June 2nd, 2010 at 04:06 am
  • OnStar to Tap Google Maps for Chevy Volt Navigation
    Chevrolet Volt drivers whose smartphones use Google’s Android operating system will be able to use their phones to pinpoint their vehicle’s location on Google Maps. The public will get a peek at what OnStar is working on at the Google I/O conference May 19-20 in San Francisco, CA, where OnStar will debut and demonstrate new functionalities they’re developing...
    by at May 18th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
  • GM to Launch Chevy Volt Sooner Than Expected
    General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre announced the Chevy Volt will go on sale in October, one to two months earlier than originally scheduled. The move will give GM a head start on the Nissan’s Leaf, which is expected to go on sale in December. Both will be sold in limited quantities in select markets. Detroit Hamtramck will build the Chevy Volt extended range electric vehicle....
    by at April 21st, 2010 at 11:04 am
  • Early Chevy Volts Hit Mileage Target
    GM engineers working on the Chevrolet Volt revealed some of the challenges facing electric cars. At the same time, they emphasized that development of the Chevy Volt has met all the milestone deadlines on its development timeline. They said the car will arrive in dealerships as planned at the end of this year. Recent calibration drives of pre-production Chevrolet Volt...
    by at April 13th, 2010 at 10:04 pm