GM Posts Nearly a Billion Dollar Quarter

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GM has something to celebrate today, as everyone may know by now, they were able to post a profit of nearly 1 billion dollars for the second quarter of this year, 891 million to [...]

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Can Green Cars and the Chevy Volt Save Detroit?

Unfortunately, sad fact is the the big 3 U.S. automakers have been losing a lot of money lately. This matches almost dollar-for-dollar with what the Japanese automakers profits are.
For example, if we look at GM, for the fiscal year 2006, net income was -$1,978,000,000 , i.e. a loss of 2 billion dollars. Toyota, [...]

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Add Another to the List of Plug-in Cars

Remember Johnson-Saft Controls. They were the partnership who were to be one of the potential suppliers of the Volt’s battery pack, named at the time GM announced the Volt concept. In the end, they did not get one of the contracts, going instead to A123/Continental and CPI/LG. However, the partnership was given [...]

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It’s Big, it’s Tough, it’s Powerful…it’s a Hybrid?! 2008 Yukon/Tahoe Hybrid Test Drive

General Motor’s has officially announced that it will begin mass production of hybrid versions of it’s popular large SUV vehicles the GMC Yukon and Chevrolet Tahoe. The cars will be available for purchase in the 4th quarter of this year.
GM-Volt.com moderator was given the opportunity to test drive one of the pre-production models right [...]

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Even More Volt Questions Answered

Sam Abuelsamid and his colleagues over at AutoBlogGreen, were in Washington for the Volt D.C. exhibits.  They collected some readers questions about the Volt and have posted the responses they got here.
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More on the Toyota Plugin

Now that the news is out on the Toyota plugin there has been a flurry of interest. Of course, we realize than an 8 mile range NiMh car is only a starter, its the Li-ion battery that makes it a killer-app. Toyota has announced they are not ready for Li-ion yet. Let’s [...]

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Now Toyota Plugs-in Too

Today Toyota Motor Corp. announced that they have developed a plug-in hybrid car based on the Prius. The car is called the Toyota Plug-in HV (name definitely not as cool as “the Volt”) and is slated for testing in the U.S. and Europe. The vehicle does not use lithium-ion batteries but rather relies [...]

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Compact Power’s CEO Wants to Lease You Your Volt’s Batteries

Reuter’s has just published an interview with Compact Power Inc. (CPI) CEO, Prabhakar Patil. In it he notes some interesting and novel points. For those who are not following the news that carefully, CPI is the competitor against A123 to design the Volt’s battery pack. CPI is working with Li-ion cells from LG [...]

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More Volt D.C. Photos

For those who like photos, Ross Karchner posted some that he took of the Volt at the D.C. showing here:
http://rossnotes.com/archives/2007/07/21/chevy-volt-1-concept-car/
Anyone in D.C. today and tomorrow can still check the car out in the flesh. Locations here.
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New Government Study Shows PHEV Use Will Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Oil Use

Yesterday the Electric Power Research Institute and the National Resources Defense Council released a comprehensive assessment which found that widespread use of plug-in electric vehicles (PHEV) could be expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve ambient air quality.
The 3 key findings:

By 2050, 450 million tons less greenhouse gas would be produced.
The power grid can [...]

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A Volt on the Streets of D.C.

As we reported previously, the Volt concept made it to Capitol Hill Today. Courtesy of GM, below is a little clip of the car backing up on the street. You can read two GM employees accounts of it here (GM sanctioned) and here (unlikely GM sanctioned).
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The Volt Goes to Washington D.C.

The Detroit news reported today that Tory Clarke, GM’s head of North American operations will be meeting with several lawmakers today on Capitol Hill. He will be pushing GM’s interest that new laws on CAFE standards not be passed. To help persuade them that GM is still very serious about improving fuel economy [...]

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