No this is not a photoshop by us but it sure is a photoshop by the folks at GM. While the new Holden Volt won’t be present at the 2009 Melbourne International Motor Show, GM dropped a press release along with some photoshopped images of the Volt for the Australian market. The Holden Volt carries [...]
General Motors announced today that it will not build a new factory to produce engines for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and Chevrolet Cruze. Instead, the Detroit automaker said it will build the 1.4L 4-cylinder Family 0 engine at its existing Flint South Engine Plant. GM said it will invest a total of $250 million to setup the [...]
In its long-term viability restructuring plan submitted to the U.S. Treasury on Tuesday, General Motors said that it plans on adding two additional models based on the Chevrolet Volt’s electric-drive system. GM didn’t go into specifics but said that it is investing “significantly in hybrid and plug-in vehicles.” it plans on increasing the number of [...]
Making its debut in Windy City, the new 2011 Chevrolet Volt had its own special event during the 2009 Chicago Auto Show. General Motors said that it plans to upgrade the production Volt faster than it would overhaul any other conventional car. Frank Weber, GM’s global vehicle line executive for the Volt, said that the [...]
General Motors announced today that it is planning the next phase of getting the Chevrolet Volt ready for two cities it believes that the plug-in hybrid will do well in. GM will be working with San Francisco and Washington, D.C. to accelerate their transition to plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. What does this new phase mean? [...]
General Motors confirmed today that it will be extending the delay of the construction of its 4-clyinder engine plant in Flint, Mich. The plant will be responsible for building the 1.4L engines that will be used in the Chevrolet Cruze and the Chevrolet Volt. No specific details were provided for the reason of the delay [...]
GM’s European Opel division has announced that it will unveil a new electric-car at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show called the Opel Ampera. The Ampera is basically Opel’s version of the Chevrolet Volt. The electric-car is a five-door four-seater like the Volt and will feature GM’s new Voltec technology recently introduced in the Cadillac Converj [...]
GM has just released a bunch of new 2011 Chevrolet Volt images for you guys to see. You can check out the new updated gallery after the jump. If you want to learn more about the plug-in hybrid electric-car – click here to visit the Chevrolet Volt Buzz Garage page. Follow the jump for the high-res image gallery. [...]
Speaking at the Automotive News World Congress today in Detroit, Chevrolet’s North American vice president Ed Peper said that General Motors will invest a total of $30 million in its planned U.S. plant to build the batteries it will use in the Chevrolet Volt. The new plant is scheduled to open in Michigan in 2010. [...]
While General Motors prepares for the launch of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt for Nov. 2010, the automaker is already studying where else it could apply the hybrid-electric technology in its product lineup. According to Jon Lauckner, GM’s vice president of global program management, one place might be the new Chevrolet Orlando seven-passenger crossover. Lauckner said that [...]
