Archive for September, 2007
New PHEV Consortium Bashes the Chevy Volt
The Rocky Mountain Institute has formed a plug-in electric vehicle (PHEV) consortium who will work with a group of companies, Google among them, to design what is in their opinion an ideal PHEV for the U.S.
This team is actually headed by John Waters who had once helped to design the EV-1 battery pack and [...]
Popularity: 11%
GM-Volt EXCLUSIVE Interview: Tom Schneider, Chair IEEE-USA Plug-in Vehicle Task Force
The IEEE-USA is the predominant U.S. organizing body of practicing electrical engineers. IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Their membership includes over 50% of all practicing electrical engineers in the U.S., which amounts to 215,000 individuals. They are responsible for publishing ~25% of the nations technical literature, and focus on [...]
Popularity: 11%
GM Commits to Volt Production in Detroit-Hamtramck, Michigan 2010
New documents provided to UAW provides terms details of GMs plans for future production.
The document indicates that the Global Delta Volt production is set to begin there in 2010.
Full Document Here (ITS ON PAGE 11): (LINK)
Now we’re gettin’ somewhere, baby Volt has a birthplace, and its right in the heart of Detroit. Are there [...]
Popularity: 9%
New Harris Poll: More Than 25% of Car Owners Plan PHEV as Next Car
In the AutoTECHCASTSM study, 27% of U.S. vehicle owners said they were likely (13%), very likely (8%) or extremely likely (6%) to make a PHEV their next vehicle.
When told there would be a $3,200 price premium, the consideration rate dropped to a total of 16%.
Males and females were equally likely to include the technology in [...]
Popularity: 9%
More Fighting Words From Bob Lutz
The strike is over, and GM has an improved position against competitors with the health care nugget off the books. Now its time to get back to hybrid technology revolution-making.
Next month we will see the release to dealers of the first-ever two-mode hybrids in form of Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon (read my test [...]
Popularity: 11%
U.S. Government Invests 20 Million in 5 PHEV Lithium-Ion Battery Companies
Lithium-ion battery powered plug-in electric cars like the Volt are the next phase in the history of automotive transportation. The cars are not really here yet, but on the very verge of widespread and massive production with the plug-in Saturn VUE and the Chevy Volt leading the way.
The U.S. government supports this transition, and [...]
Popularity: 12%
GM/UAW Strike Over, Workers Want Volt Built in U.S.A
As everyone by now knows, GM and the UAW reached a tentative contract agreement providing a 50 billion dollar healthcare trust, and assurances that GM will support future building and investments in the U.S.A.
Just prior to the end of the strike, the Wall Street Journal reported that UAW representiatives specifically mentioned their desire to have [...]
Popularity: 10%
What Will the Chevy Volt Sound Like?
This was a question I had posed early on after the car was first introduced. Engineers responded that it should be pretty quiet.
Humans have been used to driving combustion engine powered vehicles for 100 years.
Electric engines by nature do not make much of a sound. Hidden deep in the body of a high [...]
Popularity: 13%
GM Autoworker Union Goes on Strike
At 11AM today, GMs autoworkers union UAW went on strike, after a deadline to reach a new labor agreement had passed.
There are 73,000 UAW members on strike, and it affects all GM plants nationwide.
Reports are that neither side can handle a long strike, and indeed as of late a lot of progress in negotiations had [...]
Popularity: 9%
100 Silicon Valley Executives Pledge to Drive Plug-in Hybrids by 2008
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group is a consortium of high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, California. The group is releasing a “Clean and Green” action plan about what these companies can do to help reduced fuel consumption and carbon emissions.
As a part of the initiative 100 executives from member companies have pledged to drive plug-in [...]
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GM Determined to be Automotive Technology Leader
The Chevy Volt has Toyota shaking in their boots, and making weak arguments why the parallel hybrid is better than the series hybrid design of the Volt. As well, GM has forced Toyota to feebly put out to test limited mileage plug-in Priuses, and to acknowledge that their lithium-ion battery supplier is not yet [...]
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Chevy Volt in 2011?! - Bob Lutz Releases More Critical Volt Details
New York Times columnist David Pogue had more discussion with Bob Lutz about the Chevy Volt than was able to be aired on the CBS Sunday Morning segment. So like any good reporter, he reported it in today’s New York Times (link).
Bob let out some important new information for us to digest and ponder, [...]
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Recent Posts
- Update: EnerDel’s Chairman on the Cost of the Th!nk Lithium-ion Battery Pack
- GM Marching to a New Beat: Expect Mutiple Volt Versions
- Exclusive: Interview With EnerDel Chairman Charles Gassenheimer
- Wall Street Journal Opinion - Chevy Volt Just a Political Tool
- GM on June Sales: Asia Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
- Artist’s Estimation of the Production Chevy Volt
- Should GM Skip the Volt and Just Make More Efficient Gas Cars?
- Continental Says Chances Good of Getting Volt Battery Contract
- Lutz Explains Why the EV-1 Can’t Simply Be Reintroduced
- Ford Calls the Chevy Volt a Hail Mary Play
