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Automobile (Free subscription) | yesterday
2011 Chevy Volt - From Gas Stations to the Electrical Grid Squeezing more miles out of each gallon by using electricity makes sense in a world of increasingly expensive petroleum. There have been electric cars almost as long as there have been cars, but for the last eighty years of the electric car's life, it has been relegated to the farthest fringes of the automotive universe. Electrics...
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TopEnergyNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Note: To learn more about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and their potential to solve the oil crisis, please read the series of articles titled “Twelve Hydrogen Facts” which is part of the Hydrogen Manhattan Project.) You will likely be hearing a lot about the Chevy Volt plug-in battery vehicle in the upcoming Congressional hearings this week [...]
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sustainablog (Free subscription) | yesterday
No doubt about it: the Chevy Volt looks like it will be one sweet ride (even the not-so-sporty production vehicle ). But a group of electric vehicle enthusiasts here in the St. Louis area aren’t willing to wait for the hybrid Volt’s 2010 roll-out… so they’ve built their own fully electric vehicles. Today’s Post-Dispatch features the Gateway Electric Vehicle Club , and a few of...
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Zoomi Life - Electric Vehicle News (Free subscription) | yesterday
This video is short (about three and a half minutes) and well-produced. While it's a little simplistic, it does explain how the Volt's charging and long-range running systems work. Maximize the video in order to easily read the text in it:
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Web Wonderings (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Possible reasons A123 lost the Chevy Volt contract - AutoblogGreen : "Compact Power was able to get its battery packs to the General a full two months before A123 fulfilled its end of the bargain, but there could be more to it than that, and Technology Review is postulating on some possible reasons. Could it be that A123's units were more expensive, despite not requiring as much safety...
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Puadkee (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Chris Paine director of ‘Who Killed the Electric Car ” envisions that his new documentary “Revenge of the Electric Car ” due in 2010 along with the Volt could wind up with a dark ending. There has been much debate over whether GM should ...
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Web Wonderings (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Detroit Auto Show: Full Specifications on the Chevy Volt - AutoblogGreen : "Full Specifications on the Chevy Volt"
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Very high cost of Tesla and Chevy Volt discussed in Washington Post article about plug-in battery vehicles (Note: To learn more about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and their potential to solve the oil crisis, please read the series of articles titled “Twelve Hydrogen Facts” which is part of the Hydrogen Manhattan Project.) Here are a few quotes about plug-in [...]
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TopEnergyNews (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
(Note: To learn more about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and their potential to solve the oil crisis, please read the series of articles titled “Twelve Hydrogen Facts” which is part of the Hydrogen Manhattan Project.) Here are a few quotes about plug-in battery vehicles (which include a discussion of the very high cost of both the Tesla and Chevy [...]
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eGMCarTech (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
In the past couple of days when you’ve seen the name ‘GM’ in the news it’s been about the automaker’s financial troubles, government loans or Congress criticizing CEO Rick Wagoner. Well Bob Lutz is making an attempt to move media attention away from all that negative press to the Chevy Volt and its “next phase.” GM moved [...]
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Zoomi Life - Electric Vehicle News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
You can thank the lawyers for this concept. Chevrolet's new Volt, the hybrid-EV coming out next year, will have “car sounds” added . Yep, the worry that blind or deaf people won't hear it (yeah, they said “deaf people won't hear it”--you can't make this stuff up) and will get hit by a motorist, who will in turn sue Chevy for making a car that's too quiet, caused the thinkers at General...
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Hybrid Car Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Volt development going great GM is on the verge of bankruptcy but, hey, the Chevy Volt is going great. That’s the latest word from Bob Lutz. “I ended up putting in about 30 miles behind the wheel, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the vehicle, the development, or the team behind it. And they will continue to work round the clock to further refine the Volt and get it on...
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AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , GM , Opel , European Union The Red Dot design award is one of Europe's most prestigious industry awards. Created under the aegis of the Design Zentrum North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, it has been awarded to the European cousin of the Chevy Volt, the Opel Flextreme (possibly aka the Vauxhall Electra in the UK). The prize was awarded to the Flextreme for being...
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Puadkee (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The most important component in the Chevy Volt is its lithium-ion battery pack. We have been hearing for some time that an announcement about which supplier GM had chosen to maek those packs would be... [[ This is a content summary only ...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
"Whether it is a plug-in hybrid like the Chevy Volt or a fully electric car like the Th!nk City, the future depends on better batteries," Gassenheimer says. "We need dedicated federal support to ramp up production and drive down costs. That's already happening in China, Korea, and Japan, as well as in Europe. It needs to happen here, and it needs to happen quickly or we will miss the...
