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Chevrolet Chief on Volt Supply and Demand

February 8th, 2010 | Posted in: Launch with 147 Comments

I just had the opportunity to interview Jim Campbell who is GM’s newest Chevrolet brand director. I raised with him the issue of how the company will deal with the possibility demand could far outstrip supply of initial Chevy Volts.
Are you worried that since you will be making a very low volume of vehicles and [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 147 Comments

Jaguar Says Only ‘Self Charging’ Extended Range Electric Cars Make Sense

February 7th, 2010 | Posted in: Competitors, E-REV with 143 Comments

Jaguar intends to be the third automaker to mass produce an extended range electric car, joining Chevrolet’s Volt and Fisker’s Karma.
The British automaker recognizes the advantage of the extended range over pure electric design. They foresee a time when large cities create emission free requirements for vehicles within their city limits across the globe. Therefore Autocar reports Jaguar executives [...]

Op-Ed: Prius Halo Damaged; Toyota Pressured to Announce Recall on 270,000 Units Already Sold, as CEO President Finally Breaks Cover

February 6th, 2010 | Posted in: Competitors, Op-ed with 171 Comments

While the damage to Toyota’s reputation has certainly taken a hit of late due to the widely publicized problems with stuck accelerator pedals on many models, a case could have been made that it was insular event. At the time, it was fortunate for Toyota that the ‘image flagship,’ the Prius, was not involved [...]

GM Sends Dealers 2011 Model Year Ordering Guide: Includes Volt

February 5th, 2010 | Posted in: Dealers with 235 Comments

2010 is well underway, and by the end of the year the first dealer allocations of the Chevrolet Volt should arrive.
GM is gearing up to begin assembly of the first validation build vehicles at the Hamtramck plant scheduled to start next month. A few hundred of these will be made, in several iterations before the final saleable vehicles begin [...]

GM Partners with NASA to Build Next Generation Robots

February 4th, 2010 | Posted in: Research with 72 Comments

Yes I realize the focus of GM-Volt is the Chevy Volt, but don’t forget half of this site’s name is GM.
Plus, this is just so cool is had to be shared.
GM has partnered with NASA to produce a next generation humanoid robot called Robonaut2 or R2 for short.
The robot has fully accentuated human-like hands, fingers, [...]

If Electronics are to Blame for Toyota’s Vehicle Failures, What Does this Mean for the Volt?

February 4th, 2010 | Posted in: Engineering with 171 Comments

News about Toyota’s throttle and now braking problems have been filling the nation’s headlines.
The company had to recall 2.3 million vehicles and halt sales of 8 popular models of new cars. The problem identified is that the throttle can get stuck in an unintended acceleration leading to loss of control, accidents, and death. Toyota has engineered a [...]

The Chevy Volt Fuel Tank will be Sized to Deliver 300 Miles of Gas Range

February 3rd, 2010 | Posted in: Engineering, Fuel with 233 Comments

The original Chevy Volt concept car was described as having twin 6 gallon gas tanks, 50 MPG in charge sustaining mode, and thus 600 miles of gasoline range.
With production, these parameters were changed.
GM has not announced the production Volt’s miles per gallon in charge sustaining mode, though the evidence suggests it will be somewhere between 30 and [...]

Video: How the Volt Works

February 2nd, 2010 | Posted in: Video with 219 Comments

General Motors has launched a new YouTube video they are calling How the Volt Works.
It is the latest effort in a series of short and simple videos that attempt to explain the virtues and values of the Chevy Volt to people new to the idea.
A previous video showed a cut out paper Volt travelling though [...]

GM CEO: Volt Will Roll out Simultaneously in US, and a Billion Dollars Couldn’t Bring it Sooner

February 1st, 2010 | Posted in: Launch with 211 Comments

An area about the Volt that remains unknown is exactly how GM plans to roll out the car.
So far there have been announcements about California, Michigan, and Washington DC being initial markets, but the exact timing of showroom arrivals isn’t clear. GM executives over the years have generally stuck to the premise that the cars will gradually and sequentially [...]

Tesla Files for IPO: Roadster Owners Will Have Access to Shares

January 31st, 2010 | Posted in: BEV, Competitors, Financial with 94 Comments

In the first IPO of an automaker since Ford went public in 1956, Telsa Motors has filed with the SEC an application to sell shares to the public and become a publicly traded company.
This is seen as a victory of sorts for the Silicon Valley start-up company that has been plagued with difficulties, controversies and [...]

Op-Ed: Is Toyota’s Pain GM’s Gain?

January 30th, 2010 | Posted in: Competitors, Op-ed with 122 Comments

What a difference a year makes. The domestic auto industry (forgetting Fiatsler for a moment) is seemingly firing on all cylinders, while Toyota and Honda are hitting road bump after road bump. Which begs the question, can GM take advantage?
For years a trip to the doctor or dentist’s office meant the forced [...]

Lutz Driven by Peak Oil Not Global Warming, How About You?

January 29th, 2010 | Posted in: Environment with 367 Comments

As my recent Drive Electric Cars video illustrated, there are a great many divergent reasons why people want to drive electric cars.
There appears to be three largest groups; those concerned about energy security, those concerned about global warming, and those concerned about peak oil. Almost as polarizing as abortion and capital punishment, members of each [...]

Nissan Taking Shortcut on LEAF Battery: No Thermal Management System

January 28th, 2010 | Posted in: BEV, Battery, Competitors with 270 Comments

GM engineers have rightly been assiduously concerned and careful about ensuring the Chevy Volt’s battery will last 10 years or 150,000 miles and deliver its stated range and power.
The Nissan LEAF electric car, also expected to arrive at the end of the year, apparently isn’t so meticulously engineered. Or so says Wired.com in an article written by Daryl Siry, former marketing head of [...]

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