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New Industry?: Geek Squad to Install Charging Box for Your Chevy Volt

December 17th, 2008 | Posted in: Charging, Grid with 77 Comments

CNET has just published an article emphasizing the importance of community resources in wide scale launching of the Chevy Volt and other electric cars.
Interviewed is GM’s Volt vehicle line director Tony Posawatz who was by the way also was recently elected co-chairman of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA).
Tony not only is building the Volt [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 77 Comments

Project Better Place CEO Calls the Volt a Niche Product

October 7th, 2008 | Posted in: Charging, Financial with 118 Comments

Shai Agassi is the CEO of Project Better Place (PBP). That is a well-financed endeavor to create an infrastructure of battery charging/swapping stations across, at present, Israel and Denmark. The concept is that electric cars would be cheap if they didn’t have batteries in them. The batteries would be owned by PBP, [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 118 Comments

The Production Chevy Volt Has One Charging Port, and Unnamed Object Identified

October 6th, 2008 | Posted in: Charging with 209 Comments

Prior to seeing the production version of the Volt unveiled, we speculated whether it would have two charging ports as did the concept, or one.  We actually took a poll here indicating that most readers preferred one well-placed charging port to two.
It turned out the production car has one charging port which is located just [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 209 Comments

How Charging of the Battery Works in the Chevy Volt

September 27th, 2008 | Posted in: Battery, Charging, Engineering with 122 Comments

Those who follow this site closely should have a good understanding of the relationship between the generator and the battery in the Chevy Volt. Unfortunately Edmunds did not, stating that the engine does not recharge the battery, and created a bit of an Internet frenzy over, well, nothing, they were just wrong.
The battery is recharged [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 122 Comments

Laugh Break: Bob Lutz on Colbert Nation, Photovoltaic Roof Option Confirmed

September 18th, 2008 | Posted in: Charging with 178 Comments

GM vice chairman Bob Lutz appeared on the comedy show Colbert Nation last night and discussed the Chevy Volt.
A must see, funny 6 minutes for us sometimes too serious (I’ll speak for myself) Volt-heads.
Through the humor Lutz managed to confirm that the Chevy Volt will indeed have a photo voltaic roof option.
[UPDATE: So moved [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 178 Comments

Live in an Apartment and Want a Volt? Coulomb Technology Aims to Help

July 22nd, 2008 | Posted in: Charging with 111 Comments

We have considered for some time the implications of being an apartment dweller and being able to own and drive a Volt. An idea I’ve had is charging meters similar to parking meters. It turns out a Silicon Valley startup called Coulomb has already taken that idea and ran with it, developing a [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 111 Comments

Chevy Volt Chief Designer Bob Boniface on One Versus Two Charging Ports (With Poll)

July 21st, 2008 | Posted in: Charging, Design with 228 Comments

A while back we discussed whether the Volt should have one or two charging ports. The concept car has two ports, one on either side on the front quarterpanels. GM has been stealth about what the production car will have. I discussed it again recently with Bob Boniface, the Volt’s chief designer [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 228 Comments

Electric Cars and Utility Companies

May 3rd, 2008 | Posted in: Charging, Grid with 107 Comments

We all cant wait to get into our Chevy Volts and drive off on electric power. After all, what could be better than not using gasoline for most driving needs? We are aware the source of energy for the Volts battery will be the electric grid. All indications are that the energy costs [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 107 Comments

Volt Will Charge at Both 110V and 220V: Half of Range Charge Within an Hour

April 2nd, 2008 | Posted in: Charging with 102 Comments

I arrived OK in Michigan, and on this first night had the chance to speak to a wide range of people involved in the Chevy Volt.
At tonight’s reception, I caught up with Frank Weber, the Volt’s vehicle line executive. At Volt Nation he had mentioned that the Volt will have a smart charging capacity, meaning [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 102 Comments

A Chat with Project Better Place Investor, Michael Granoff

March 31st, 2008 | Posted in: Charging, Original GM-Volt Interviews with 57 Comments

After Volt Nation, I received an email from Michael Granoff, who is a #1 investor with Project Better Place (PBP). It turns out he lives within a mile of where I work and we planned to meet up. We had a wide ranging discussion about Project Better Place, whether it could come to America, and [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 57 Comments

North Carolina To Build Statewide Network of PHEV Charging Pods

March 15th, 2008 | Posted in: Charging with 23 Comments

North Carolina apparently plans to take the initiative to position itself as a state that welcomes plug-in electric cars.
Utility companies Duke Energy and Progress Energy are pledging $3 million dollars over 5 year to go in part towards building “a statewide network of charging pods at parking lots, gas stations and truck stops.”
This may [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 23 Comments

Nanosolar’s Plan for Electric Cars

December 31st, 2007 | Posted in: Charging with 57 Comments

A company frequently praised by the community here at GM-Volt is Nanosolar. They are a Silicon Valley start-up that has built what will soon be the world’s largest solar cell production facility. They have sizable private funding as well, including the likes of Google founders Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt.
What’s so interesting about [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 57 Comments

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