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More Chevy Volt Mule Test Drives and GM’s Point of View w/ Videos

April 15th, 2009 | Posted in: Test drive, Video with 94 Comments

As promised, GM has let several other journalists test drive the Volt mules as well. We are in a great position here to experience all these points of view which together may bring us closer to the truth. In the coming weeks we will be seeing more reviews.
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GM has shared [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 94 Comments

Video: Auto Task Force Visits GM and Drives Chevy Volt Prototypes

March 9th, 2009 | Posted in: Financial, Politics, Video with 123 Comments

Everything seemed to go as planned today in Detroit. Part of the President’s Task Force on Autos including Steve Rattner and Ron Bloom visited both GM and Chrysler today.
They spent most of the morning at GM’s Warren Technical Center where the Chevy Volt development takes place. They were personally greeted by GM CEO [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 123 Comments

Opel Ampera Official Picture Released

March 1st, 2009 | Posted in: Images, Opel, Video with 84 Comments

Amidst the gloom and doom of global financial collapse, and despite the auto industry being among the hardest hit, the show must go on.
GM will be unveiling the European sister car to the Chevy Volt on March 5th at the Geneva Auto Show. Called the Opel Ampera, the car will have district Opel styling [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 84 Comments

GM-Volt.com Exclusive Tesla Roadster Electric Car One Day Test Drive With Video

February 23rd, 2009 | Posted in: Competitors, Test drive, Video with 217 Comments

I had one of the greatest indulgent pleasures of my life the other day. For one day, Tesla Motors gave me a Tesla Roadster to do with what I wish. This was a 2008 prototype model in red.
From simply setting up a blog about the Volt concept two years ago, unbelievably I was [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 217 Comments

Video: Exclusive GM-Volt.com Interview with GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz

January 15th, 2009 | Posted in: Cadillac, Original GM-Volt Interviews, Video with 132 Comments

I had the special opportunity for a one on one exclusive interview with GM vice chairman Bob Lutz. I apologize for the sound quality as we had to go to a place where the mobs of reporters wouldn’t besiege him, and there was a lot of background noise. You may have to [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 132 Comments

LIVE Video: Detroit Auto Show GM Press Conference

January 11th, 2009 | Posted in: Battery, Cadillac, E-Flex, Video with 56 Comments

I am here in Detroit about to get started out to the events. Below you will find a real-time live video stream so you can watch the press conference unfold at 10 AM EST. We expect to see a production version of the 50 mpg Chevy Beat (now called Spark), the high efficiency [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 56 Comments

VIDEO: Volt Vehicle Line Executive Frank Weber On Driving the Volt – “It’s Like Flying”

November 23rd, 2008 | Posted in: Performance, Video with 119 Comments

In this inspired video clip, Frank Weber, GM’s Volt vehicle line executive, discusses public acceptance for electric propulsion.
He notes people will see the obvious benefits of petroleum free driving; no emissions, and quietness, but also goes on to extol that electric propulsion “opens a new dimension in driving performance and experience.”
He says electric propulsion gives [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 119 Comments

Video: Bob Lutz Discusses the Business Case for the Chevy Volt

November 10th, 2008 | Posted in: Financial, Original GM-Volt Interviews, Video with 67 Comments

In this video segment, GM vice-chair Bob Lutz discusses the Volt’s business case. Assuming GM survives this very critical juncture, being able to make money on the Volt will become very important indeed.
He says the program is going “super smoothly,” and that GM will have lots of Volts in 2010 and they will be [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 67 Comments

Video: Bob Lutz Discusses Production Chevy Volt Design

October 15th, 2008 | Posted in: Design, Original GM-Volt Interviews, Video with 121 Comments

In this video segment GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz noted that he didn’t think the previously leaked photos would ruin the public’s acceptance of the Volt in production form. He felt however that even if people didn’t like it, it wouldn’t matter because as he puts it “this is a case where handsome is as [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 121 Comments

Video: 60 Minutes – Race For the Electric Car

October 5th, 2008 | Posted in: Video with 137 Comments

In case you missed it, CBS 60 Minutes aired a piece tonight called “Race for the Electric Car,” the video is below.  The interview features Elon Musk of Tesla and GM vice chairman Bob Lutz.
There wasn’t any breakthrough information here.
Lutz tells the story about how GM was inspired by Tesla. He mentions the [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 137 Comments

Bob Lutz Video: GM Wasn’t Prepared for Volt Initial Public Reaction, Current Volt Mules are Chevy Cruzes

September 26th, 2008 | Posted in: Original GM-Volt Interviews, Production, Video with 113 Comments

In this video segment, I filmed at the Centennial last week, GM vice chair Bob Lutz talks about the origin of the Volt concept and how “vague” in their thinking GM initially was. He said there was nothing to prepare GM for the reaction it received. After that they told themselves that they have “stumbled [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 113 Comments

Bob Lutz: GM Has Discovered the Right Formula with the Volt

September 23rd, 2008 | Posted in: Original GM-Volt Interviews, Video with 93 Comments

I had the chance to sit in on on a blogger interview with GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz. In this segment (video below) Lutz explains how he feels the effect of the Volt on fuel use will be more at the individual level rather than on a national one, the ability for the individual; to [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 93 Comments

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