2011 volt

In late April, state fire marshals wrapped up their investigation of the Barkhamsted, Connecticut fires that destroyed a garage housing a 2011 Chevrolet Volt. At the time, Barkhamsted fire marshal Bill Baldwin said that the investigation into the actual cause of the fire was in the hands of ...

The Chevrolet Volt is a prime example of the need for unified methods to address the complexity and software content in embedded system design, according to Meg Selfe, vice president for complex and embedded systems at IBM Rational. Selfe's keynote speech at the Embedded Systems Conference ...

General Motors could produce the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt in South Korea through its local unit, says GM Korea's vice president of vehicle sales, service and marketing, Ankush Arora. According to the Wall Street Journal, Arora spoke at a press briefing late last week and stated:

One of the automotive engineering industry's most storied vehicles, the Chevrolet Volt has been the focus of thousands of articles, including hundreds on AutoblogGreen, over the past four-plus years as it moved from a wild-eyed concept to real production vehicle. Now, the Volt is the subject of a ...

State fire marshals have wrapped up their investigation of the Barkhamsted, Connecticut fires that destroyed a garage housing a 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Barkhamsted fire marshal Bill Baldwin says that the investigation into the actual cause of the fire is now in the hands of General Motors and Amica ...

Most 2011 Chevrolet Volt owners only had to make one trip to gas stations in March, according to General Motors. In fact, GM says that the average Volt went 30 days and 1,000 miles between fill-ups. Cristi Landy, Volt marketing director, states that:

Ever wonder what the result would be if a Chevrolet Volt was left "running" for hours on end? Well, it just so happens that the folks over at the duPont Registry accidentally left their Volt "on" overnight. The result? A sudden blast of air from the vehicle's climate control system when the ...

It's often been assumed that plug-in vehicles will contribute, at least to some degree, to the "greening" of the automotive industry, but how big a role battery-powered autos will play still remains unknown. Recently, Automotive ...

Some Chevrolet dealerships have been warned not to sell the Volt above the $41,000 MSRP, but that hasn't stopped other dealers from marking up prices on Chevy's plug-in vehicle. Earlier this month, Motor Trend reported that a ...

We know from GM's Susan Stevenson that, in cold weather, the Chevy Volt "requires as much energy to heat the interior of a car on a cold day as it does to drive at a constant speed." Because of this, GM spent a lot of time designing the Volt's HVAC system to handle grueling winter weather while ...