Today General Motors announced a plan to close several factories and to cancel several vehicle lines, including the Chevy Volt. GM’s press release discusses several plants being closed in a realignment of the company that will eventually see GM produce more electric vehicles, and more autonomous vehicles. One of those…
Bob Lutz is prognosticating the death of Tesla Motors, saying the company is badly run, its costs are too high, it should be working through dealers, it should add a plug-in hybrid model, and oh-by-the-way he likes Elon Musk. Coincidentally, I see from my calendar that in exactly one…
Today, GM unveiled plans to “capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership” and while a large part of that plan is an eventual autonomously driven car based robotaxi service, General Motors announced a couple…
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The 2012 Chevy Volt began sales in late 2011. The 2013 Chevy Volt quietly began shipping in the summer of 2012. The Chevy Volt is GM’s reentry into electric car manufacturing after the ill-fated decision to crush the EV1. It is technically a plug-in hybrid design, the EPA rates it…
In May 2013 at Fortune’s Brainstorm Green Conference, then-GM-CEO Dan Akerson promised that the Next Generation Chevy Volt would be $10,000 cheaper, and profitable. Today, GM announced the Next Generation Chevy Volt MSRP, starting at $33,170 (excl $825 deliver charges), and while that’s a lot cheaper than the 2011 Volt’s…
A piece of news has come which could cheer anti-electric-car “Conservatives” — GM is ending production of the Chevy Volt. But the actual reason for ending Volt production isn’t what those so-called-Conservatives had predicted. Instead of the Volt being a dismal flop (it’s not, quite), GM is stopping Volt production to…
Back in the day, long ago in 2010 when the modern phase of electric cars hadn’t started being sold to the public, General Motors was showing the Chevy Volt at some public events. One of those was at the Presidio of San Francisco (in a couple hundred years, due to…
Some of us shake our head over how little GM is putting into marketing the Chevy Volt. Some of us take the next step, and produce our own advertising video for the Volt.
GM’s Pam Fletcher, GM’s Executive Chief Engineer for Electrified Vehicles, talks with Fast Lane News about the newly redesigned 2016 Volt
