GM’s first all-electric car since the EV1, and the first electric car with the SAE Combo fast charging system. The Chevy Spark EV is GM’s first all-electric vehicle since the EV1. It is an urban-oriented mini-car built on the Chevy Spark, an already popular car that’s manufactured in Korea. While…
General Motors Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant’s LaTanya Clanton works on the Spark EV battery line Tuesday, May 13, 2014 in Brownstown, Michigan. GM is bringing all of its electric vehicle battery building capabilities in-house with production of battery systems for the 2015 Chevrolet Spark EV at Brownstown. The plant already…
CNN reviews the Chevy Spark EV, glowingly praising its performance and affordability. The Chevy Spark EV is an electric vehicle with 134 horsepower and it can still zip around town in grid-lock traffic.
Tony Williams tests the Chevy Spark EV range. We drove a 2014 General Motors Chevrolet Spark EV on an 80 mile loop through San Diego to test its range autonomy at 100km/h ground speed (62mph). It did very well in comparison to the Nissan LEAFs that have been tested on…
Consumer Reports reviews the Chevy Spark EV, glowingly praising its performance and affordability. Marking GM’s return to building full-electric cars, the Chevrolet Spark EV improves upon its slow and noisy gasoline-powered version. Performance is quick but recharge times are slow.
It’s thought that DC Fast Chargers deployment is a crucial element to widespread electric car adoption. For example, the Japanese deployed a widespread CHAdeMO network in 2008 and immediately saw electric car utilization rates go up. My feeling is that fast charging is the way to implement the normal behavior…
Eco Auto Journalist Eric Novak received an invite from General Motors to participate in an event put on by GM called the Electrification Experience. The event features a chance to ride the new 2014 Chevy Spark EV 2 weeks before launch as well as the opportunity to learn more about…
Volt: Lithium manganese spinel from LG Chem; Spark EV: lithium iron phosphate from A123 Systems. Both are supposed to be safe. In October, GM announced the Chevy Spark EV would be sold in select U.S. and global markets beginning in 2013. The Chevy Volt crash testing battery pack fires have…
