Mar 18

Nissan Leaf Price: $38,600 to $44,300

 
Nissan Leaf Price: $38,600 to $44,300

 

2010 will end with the introduction of two eagerly anticipated electric cars, the GM Volt, and the Nissan Leaf.
Perhaps more eagerly awaited than the cars themselves is their MSRPs. More discussion, speculation, and innuendo have been applied to what these numbers will be than almost any other aspect of the [...]

   
 

Mar 17

GM Begins Testing New Compact Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Plans Commercialization in 2015

 
GM Begins Testing New Compact Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Plans Commercialization in 2015

The hydrogen fuel cell powered car remains an elusive advanced technology transportation strategy that continues to have an uncertain future.
GM has worked for years and has spent over $1.6 billion to develop fuel cells that convert pressurized hydrogen into electricity. Since late 2007 their Project Driveway program has placed more [...]

   
 

Mar 16

Volt More Than Bridging Strategy

 
Volt More Than Bridging Strategy

Some expressed concern when GM’s new sales and marketing chief Mark Reuss told GM-Volt he expects pure EVs to eventually obtain a larger market than EREVs.
“As (Volt) technology flows down to BEV in what will be smaller cars to carry smaller packs, that may be the higher volume play over [...]

   
 

Mar 15

GM Planning Multiple Hybrids and a Line of Pure Electric Cars

 
GM Planning Multiple Hybrids and a Line of Pure Electric Cars

Bob Lutz and Jon Lauckner are credited as having devised the Chevy Volt concept in 2006. They charged executive engineers Tony Posawatz, Nick Zielinski and John Bereisa with making it happen.
Though Lutz is retiring, and Bob Kruse, Denise Gray, and Frank Weber have left the program, Lauckner and Posawatz remain [...]

   
 

Mar 14

GM-Volt Test Drive Contest Final Round

 
GM-Volt Test Drive Contest Final Round

Below are the two top highest voted entries from an initial field of over 100.  The winner of the vote below will not only get to test drive the Chevy Volt in New York City at the end of the month, but will get their travel expenses paid up to $500.  This generous prize is from GM-Volt.com sponsor NetLook.com. [...]

   
 

Mar 14

GM-Volt Test Drive Winners, Round Two

 
GM-Volt Test Drive Winners, Round Two

This is the second round of 6 finalists. Please vote for your favorite from the 6 entries below, the top 5 will win test drives in NY:
1. Video

2. When I pull back the curtains in the morning, the first thing I see are the windmills. The sun plays gently between [...]

   
 

Mar 13

GM-Volt Test Drive Contest Winners, Round One

 
GM-Volt Test Drive Contest Winners, Round One

We recently announced a special opportunity for 10 GM-Volt.com readers to test drive a pre production Chevy Volt in EV and range extended mode in New York City.
We received over 100 entries of essays and videos answering “Why I Want a Chevy Volt.”
In a very difficult task, myself and a [...]