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60% of New U.S. Car Buyers are Against Buying American Brands
In an article in the Detroit Press, figures are given with respect to the 2.7 million Americans shopping for a new family sedan.
According to GM research, 20% have an American brand in mind prior to purchase, and 20% are “import neutral”; they would buy either U.S. or foreign. However, the majority, a full 60% [...]
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Will There be an E-Flex Saturn?
Recently we told you there was some information that GM was planning an E-Flex surprise for us in January at the Detroit Auto Show (prior post). This was not verified, but reliable.
Yesterday the GMinsidenews forum published a brief interview with Jill Lajdiak who is GM’s Saturn brand manager. Among other points of discussion, this [...]
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Massive Breaking News: GM Receives First Chevy Volt Lithium-ion Battery Packs From LG Chem and Expects to Make up to 100,000 Cars in First Year
Bob Lutz was interviewed by the Detroit Press and the article was published today. In it he gave us some very important new details.
He told them that GM received the first experimental battery packs from LG Chem/CPI Tuesday, October 30th (cooling system not included). He also said that A123 packs would arrive in Decemeber.
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Is GM planning an E-Flex Cadillac?
There have been some recent reports citing sources inside GM who propose that GM is planning to produce an E-Flex Cadillac:
Autoweek
Jalopnik
It should really not be a surprise that GM hopes to put the E-Flex drivetrain into many future vehicles. By necessity this would include Cadillacs.
I could not confirm an immediate plan with GM officials.
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The Volt Will be a Chevrolet
There were some recent commentaries speculating that the Volt could come out under another brand.
This was started by Todd Lasso of MotorTrend who noticed that it was describe as “Global Delta Volt” on the UAW comittment statement.
Well, we have heard back officially from GM on this issue:
“The Volt will be a Chevrolet. However, the [...]
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Will GM Name it the Volt But Change the Brand?
We have previously discussed the importance of naming this car the Volt (see previous post), and even got GM to make some comments about it. We took an informal poll and found an overwhelming majority of visitors here wanted the production car to keep the Volt name (see post).
As we also reported, the UAW [...]
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E-Flex Opel Appears to Have a Name: Opel Flextreme
Within the past 2 hours (it’s 7:40 PM EST) an article was published in the Financial Times of London. The articles focus is again on the theme of charging stations, only it is reported that Toyota will be teaming with French utility EDF to develop the electric architecture that will be required for future [...]
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FIRST LOOK: GM Opel E-Flex Concept Car
At the Frankfurt Auto Show on Septebmer 10th, GM is expect to announce the sister car to the Chevy Volt.
As you know, Opel is GM’s main European car company, and sells vehicles all across the continent.
Well whats good for the U.S. is good for the world.
We will see the Chevy Volt here in the U.S., [...]
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Keep it the Volt !
Thanks to all for your outpouring of support to keeping the Volt name. Obviously, the choice is excellent and meaningful and will help the car to be the big hit it deserves to be. Nearly everyone agrees that the first E-Flex car should be the Volt, unique in name, appearance, and engineering. [...]
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Will it Still Be Called the Volt?
As we know, the Chevrolet Volt doesn’t just represent a car but more importantly represents it’s technological underpinnings. The vehicle also heralds a major frameshift in the fundamental engineering of the automobile as we know it. Furthermore, this frameshift in turn, completely disrupts the fabric of energy flow on a global level as [...]
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Recent Posts
- GM CEO’s Best Guess: Volt Will be Priced in “Mid to High 30’s”
- The Dawn of the Next Vintage of Chevy Volt Developmental Vehicles
- GM May Reveal the Production Chevy Volt on it Centennial Webcast, September 16th
- GM Has More Than Two New E-Flex Vehicles Already at Scale-Model Stage of Development
- The Volt’s #1 Fanboy and Our Wait List Story is the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”
- GM’s Future Volt and E-Flex Plans
- GM’s Advanced Battery Director Denise Gray is “Keeping Her Eyes on the Future”
- Interview with Chevy Volt Chief Designer About the Production Car: Plus Leaked Pictures and Video
- BREAKING: GM Releases New Production Volt Photos
- Chevy Volt Update from Chief Engineer: “There’s Nothing Standing in Our Way”
