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Lutz: Forty-Mile Electric Range Mules in March or April
GM Vice-Chairman Bob Lutz told reporters in Flint, Michigan on Tuesday that the Volt remains on-schedule.
He said:
“We’re going to prove the skeptics wrong,”
and
“I hope to drive the 40 miles electrically by March or April and by June we’ll have running prototypes for the press.”
And for those of you wondering about the first prototype packs from [...]
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Did GM CEO Rick Wagoner Really Change Anything about the Volt’s Release Date?
Last week I asked Rick Wagoner, GM’s CEO if he was confident the Volt would be released in 2010. He responded that it would be great, but that he couldn’t guarantee it. That remark prompted a flurry of news reports suggesting GM might be balking on their original plans for release. Here [...]
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GM CEO Rick Wagoner on the Chevy Volt
Yesterday, GM hosted what it called GMnext to celebrate it’s 100 year anniversary as a company. For the event, myself and other journalists and bloggers were given the chance for a web chat with executives, including CEO Rick Wagoner.
What did I ask Mr. Wagoner? Well about the Volt of course!:
How important is the [...]
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Lutz Now 95% Confident Volt will be Built, 55% Confident it will Arrive in 2010
In his latest interview, with Forbes reporter Jerry Flint, the Volt’s main proponent GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz was asked about his confidence in being able to produce the Volt.
Lutz told the reporter on a scale of 1 to 10 he rated his confidence that the Volt will get produced as a 9.5.
This number dropped to [...]
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GM Exec: The Volt Will be Ready by 2010
We have heard before Bob Lutz’ intention to have the Chevy Volt in production by the end of 2010, presumably as a 2011 model-year car. The only possible stumbling block to reach that goal has been the lack of lithium-ion battery pack readiness.
We also recently found out that the LG Chem/CPI delivered the first [...]
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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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New Interview with Chevy Volt Chief Engineer Nick Zielinksi: Part I
I just had the chance to speak with Nick Zielinksi about the most recent Chevy Volt developments including among other topics, the rationale for recent executive restructuring and a discussion about highway driving range. See video below:
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GM to Let Selected Outsiders Drive Volt Prototypes Next Year
Today the Detroit Press published a new interview with Bob Lutz, GMs vice-chairman, taking place at a dinner meeting in Frankfurt. Lutz re-iterated that the first test drives of the car will take place in the spring, but the report also mentions that this time next year “GM may allow selected people outside the company [...]
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60,000 Chevy Volts to be Built for 2010 Model Year
How’s that for ambitious plans? I’m sure there will be enough buyers.
Today Bloomberg published a report again citing those infernal anonymous sources (hope they’re better than mine!), who indicate that GM is planning to produce 60,000 Chevy Volts for it’s inaugural year (2010). This is four times the number of Priuses that came [...]
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More Big News!: Chevy Volt Timeline Made Public
Today is a banner day for Volt enthusiasts! All of this great information is coming out of the CAR meeting in Traverse City Michigan where Bob Lutz gave his A123 announcement. Although invited, I unfortunately could not attend, but I am waiting on an a phone interview.
Reuters has published their sideline interview with [...]
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