General Motors product development chief Tom Stephens said today that work on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid is progressing as planned despite the company’s financial troubles and the threat of bankruptcy right around the corner. “At this point in time, I know of no reason why we can’t be in production by November of [...]
Earlier this week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk made an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman to discuss the future Model S sedan. Letterman, impressed by Tesla’s Roadster and Model S, cracked a joke on GM’s Volt calling it a “golf cart,” saying the mileage was “insane” and “ridiculous.” Letterman went on to [...]
GM is calling for plug-in vehicles standards that it says are necessary for consumer acceptance of electric-vehicles, like the Chevy Volt. The automaker will be supporting the Society of Automotive Engineers conference in Detroit next week, where the SAE J1772TM Task Force (they really couldn’t pick something easier) will continue to push for the standardization for [...]
Some of the very elite press publications (you know the WSJ, CNN and stuff) were recently invited out to GM’s Milford ground in Michigan where they had the chance to get behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Volt prototype. We’re guessing this is another one of GM’s marketing stunt to show that work is progressing [...]
General Motors said today that it won’t be getting any federal funding for its 2011 Chevrolet Volt until the company has been certified as financially viable by Obama’s automotive task force. Along with its $10.3 billion loan request from the U.S. Energy Department for the development of fuel-efficient vehicles, GM has also requested $2.6 billion [...]
The Tesla Roadster and the company’s upcoming Model S are both pure electric-vehicles. That’s because Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk doesn’t like E-REVs like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. When asked by GM-Volt why Tesla hasn’t considered the range-extender concept of the Chevrolet Volt, Musk said: We looked closely at a range extender architecture for Model [...]
Despite General Motors’ financial troubles and Obama’s task force saying that the automaker spent too much time and money on a car that won’t be commercially successful in the short-term, development on the Chevrolet Volt rolls on. GM said today that it will be adding 80 new prototypes by this summer. However, this time around [...]
General Motors on Monday asked the U.S. government for a total of $2.6 billion in low-interest government loans to support the development of three new hybrid vehicles – two of which it said will be spin-offs from the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid. That brings GM’s loan request to $10.3 billion in aid from a U.S. [...]
Today is Bob Lutz’s last day as General Motors Vice Chairman and head of Global Product Development. Tomorrow, Lutz will take on a new role as Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor. So on his last day, GM-Volt only saw it fit to ask Maximum Bob about the remarks that came from the auto task force yesterday regarding [...]
According to the auto task force’s Viability Summary of GM, the Chevrolet Volt will not save the Detroit automaker. The government’s audit of GM’s restructuring plan said that the automaker had invested too much time and money developing the Volt instead of focusing producing better smaller cars. “While the Volt holds promise, it will likely [...]
