With 50 mile electric range, the 2016 Chevy Volt (gen2) will make gas stations even more foreign.
Due for summer 2015 delivery, the completely redesigned 2016 Chevy Volt offers more range (50+ electric miles), and more driver assist features.
Tag: Chevy Volt
Cars.com initial Chevy Volt review at 2015 NAIAS auto show (Detroit)
Can GM or anyone else deliver a 200 mile range EV in 2017 to compete with Tesla Motors? Or are they all toast?
Chevy Sonic possibly the base of a Chevy EV in 2017 The 200 mile range electric car from General Motors, badged with a Chevrolet brand, is possibly going to be announced in January at the Detroit Auto Show. Chevy Volt fans are clinging to this idea while sales of that…
Vauxhall Ampera (Volt’s twin) isn’t being canceled in Europe – hiatus for redesign instead
Recent news has claimed the European version of the Chevy Volt, the Opel/Vauhall Ampera, is being canceled due to poor sales. As I’ve noted before, the Chevy Volt isn’t selling too well in the U.S. itself, and I imagine the European version isn’t doing very well against the Leaf. The…
GM paints pretty face on weak Volt sales in CNET News interview
The Chevy Volt may have sold the more units in North America than the Nissan Leaf et al, but that doesn’t mean GM really understands what to do with the Volt. Also, both Nissan and Tesla are showing more commitment to electrified-cars-with-plugs than GM is. Yes, GM is doing quite…
GM reaffirming 2nd gen Volt, other EV’s coming, investing in new electrified vehicle manufacturing
General Motors is reaffirming its investment in electrified vehicles, reaffirming there will be a 2nd Generation Volt (something which wasn’t always a given), hinting at future electrified cars from GM. On Wednesday, the company announced nearly $500 million in investments in new manufacturing equipment and processes to support building the…
Bob Lutz disappointed by Krauthammer and other Chevy Volt bashers
Bob Lutz’s latest blog post on the Chevy Volt bashers finds him disappointed that a Conservative Icon like Charles Krauthammer would stoop to joining in with heaping lies upon the Chevy Volt. Bob Lutz, formerly the Chairman of General Motors, and father of the Chevy Volt, has found cruel disappointment…
GM still planning to beat Tesla Motors with 200+ range affordable range extended electric car
According to a Bloomberg News piece diving deep into how Mary Barra came to replace Dan Akerson as CEO of General Motors, we learn that GM is planning to introduce a 200+ mile range plug-in hybrid electric car (electric car with range extender) by 2016, that will cost about $30,000. …
Ford winning in PHEV market share over Toyota and GM, but has lower ratio of electric miles driven
2013 Ford C-MAX Energi Ford today released some sales figures for the Ford C-MAX Energi and Ford Fusion Energi demonstrating that their plan to win market share from Toyota and Honda, in California, is beginning to work. Taken together, Ford’s two Plug-in Hybrid’s have 34% market-share, beating both the Toyota…
Has h*ll frozen over? Fox News loves the Chevy Volt?
(the actual video is below) Why have Conservatives in America fought so hard against electrified vehicles? This is puzzling since electric and plug-in hybrid cars are in huge alignment with lots of Conservative Values. EV’s mean less fossil oil consumption, which means sending less money out of the country, which…
Gen2 Chevy Volt to have 50-60 miles electric range, says Akerson
GM CEO Dan Akerson has done it again, allowed his loose lips to say big things about future generations of the Chevy Volt. GM’s CEO Dan Akerson and his loose-lips spoke again about future product plans for the Chevy Volt, predicting on Thursday a future Volt with an longer electric…
Chevy Volt future murky due to price competition from Nissan, Tesla and BMW
Just how afraid of Tesla is GM? I’m asking this because of a pair of events, one where Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk laid out the company’s roadmap making it clear they can and will bring a 200+ mile range electric car to market in a couple years, and another…
GM is not killing the Chevy Volt, but creating the Volt 2.0 and Cadillac ELR
Should GM kill the Chevy Volt? I thought we were past that phase, but maybe not, or maybe an article with that title on the Motley Fool is just a piece of link-bait. In any case, GM is clearly playing the game of developing Volt 2.0 rather than killing the…
Next generation Volt will be $10k cheaper and profitable says GM CEO Akerson
Speaking at Fortune’s Brainstorm Green conference, G.M. chief executive Dan Akerson spoke about the company’s sustainability efforts and greener vehicles. He said the next-generation Chevy Volt, due in 2015 or 2016, would cost less to build and finally be profitable. On Tuesday, GM’s CEO Dan Akerson said the next generation…
Dan Akerson on positioning GM as a solution for peak oil, resource exhaustion, national energy security and climate change
You don’t think of the head honcho of a major corporation like General Motors (GM) doing something altruistic like changing the company’s vehicle strategy just to save the polar bears. The GM shareholders hope their CEO will be making choices that improve the bottom line, and aim the company into…
Cars.com initial Chevy Volt review at 2015 NAIAS auto show (Detroit)
Can GM or anyone else deliver a 200 mile range EV in 2017 to compete with Tesla Motors? Or are they all toast?
Chevy Sonic possibly the base of a Chevy EV in 2017 The 200 mile range electric car from General Motors, badged with a Chevrolet brand, is possibly going to be announced in January at the Detroit Auto Show. Chevy Volt fans are clinging to this idea while sales of that…
Vauxhall Ampera (Volt’s twin) isn’t being canceled in Europe – hiatus for redesign instead
Recent news has claimed the European version of the Chevy Volt, the Opel/Vauhall Ampera, is being canceled due to poor sales. As I’ve noted before, the Chevy Volt isn’t selling too well in the U.S. itself, and I imagine the European version isn’t doing very well against the Leaf. The…
GM paints pretty face on weak Volt sales in CNET News interview
The Chevy Volt may have sold the more units in North America than the Nissan Leaf et al, but that doesn’t mean GM really understands what to do with the Volt. Also, both Nissan and Tesla are showing more commitment to electrified-cars-with-plugs than GM is. Yes, GM is doing quite…
GM reaffirming 2nd gen Volt, other EV’s coming, investing in new electrified vehicle manufacturing
General Motors is reaffirming its investment in electrified vehicles, reaffirming there will be a 2nd Generation Volt (something which wasn’t always a given), hinting at future electrified cars from GM. On Wednesday, the company announced nearly $500 million in investments in new manufacturing equipment and processes to support building the…
Bob Lutz disappointed by Krauthammer and other Chevy Volt bashers
Bob Lutz’s latest blog post on the Chevy Volt bashers finds him disappointed that a Conservative Icon like Charles Krauthammer would stoop to joining in with heaping lies upon the Chevy Volt. Bob Lutz, formerly the Chairman of General Motors, and father of the Chevy Volt, has found cruel disappointment…
GM still planning to beat Tesla Motors with 200+ range affordable range extended electric car
According to a Bloomberg News piece diving deep into how Mary Barra came to replace Dan Akerson as CEO of General Motors, we learn that GM is planning to introduce a 200+ mile range plug-in hybrid electric car (electric car with range extender) by 2016, that will cost about $30,000. …
Ford winning in PHEV market share over Toyota and GM, but has lower ratio of electric miles driven
2013 Ford C-MAX Energi Ford today released some sales figures for the Ford C-MAX Energi and Ford Fusion Energi demonstrating that their plan to win market share from Toyota and Honda, in California, is beginning to work. Taken together, Ford’s two Plug-in Hybrid’s have 34% market-share, beating both the Toyota…
Has h*ll frozen over? Fox News loves the Chevy Volt?
(the actual video is below) Why have Conservatives in America fought so hard against electrified vehicles? This is puzzling since electric and plug-in hybrid cars are in huge alignment with lots of Conservative Values. EV’s mean less fossil oil consumption, which means sending less money out of the country, which…
Gen2 Chevy Volt to have 50-60 miles electric range, says Akerson
GM CEO Dan Akerson has done it again, allowed his loose lips to say big things about future generations of the Chevy Volt. GM’s CEO Dan Akerson and his loose-lips spoke again about future product plans for the Chevy Volt, predicting on Thursday a future Volt with an longer electric…
Chevy Volt future murky due to price competition from Nissan, Tesla and BMW
Just how afraid of Tesla is GM? I’m asking this because of a pair of events, one where Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk laid out the company’s roadmap making it clear they can and will bring a 200+ mile range electric car to market in a couple years, and another…
GM is not killing the Chevy Volt, but creating the Volt 2.0 and Cadillac ELR
Should GM kill the Chevy Volt? I thought we were past that phase, but maybe not, or maybe an article with that title on the Motley Fool is just a piece of link-bait. In any case, GM is clearly playing the game of developing Volt 2.0 rather than killing the…
Next generation Volt will be $10k cheaper and profitable says GM CEO Akerson
Speaking at Fortune’s Brainstorm Green conference, G.M. chief executive Dan Akerson spoke about the company’s sustainability efforts and greener vehicles. He said the next-generation Chevy Volt, due in 2015 or 2016, would cost less to build and finally be profitable. On Tuesday, GM’s CEO Dan Akerson said the next generation…
Dan Akerson on positioning GM as a solution for peak oil, resource exhaustion, national energy security and climate change
You don’t think of the head honcho of a major corporation like General Motors (GM) doing something altruistic like changing the company’s vehicle strategy just to save the polar bears. The GM shareholders hope their CEO will be making choices that improve the bottom line, and aim the company into…
