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Webchat with Tony Posawatz and Felix Kramer, 3:30pm EST today

Readers of this site are probably quite familiar with the names of Felix Kramer and Tony Posawatz. Kramer is the founder of the California Cars Institute (CalCars) and major proponent of plug-in vehicles. Posawatz is the vehicle line director for the Chevrolet Volt and has been part of the team since almost day one. Both Kramer and Posawatz will be speaking at the Business of Plugging In conference in Detroit next week. They will be part of a panel on Wednesday October 21 titled "The Consumer: Who, When and Why?" Since most of you won't ... Read more →

Catching up with Chevrolet's 1,200 mile pre-production Volt fleet drive Sam Abuelsamid

Yesterday, we had an opportunity to chat with Chevrolet Volt chief engineer Andrew Farah as he rode through the hills of West Virginia during a development drive. On Tuesday, a fleet of eight ...

REPORT: GM admits Volt concerns to U.S. Treasury Jeremy Korzeniewski

According to a report on Autocar, General Motors submitted a regulatory filing with the U.S. Treasury on Sunday that disclosed a number of potential problems with the Chevy Volt program. Not only ...

VIDEO: See how prototype Chevy Volt bodies are built Sam Abuelsamid

Right now, the crew at General Motors pre-production operations center at the Warren Technical Center is in the midst of building 75 Chevy Volt IVER prototypes. IVER – integration vehicle ...

Contrary to reports, second generation Chevy Volt is already under development Sam Abuelsamid

When automakers are getting a new vehicle ready for production, the main specifications are generally locked down about 18-24 months before production starts. After that point, validation testing ...

General Motors opens new Global Battery Test lab in Warren, Michigan 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

On Monday, General Motors officially inaugurated the new Global Battery Systems test lab that was announced at the Detroit Auto Show in January. The lab, which GM claims is the largest such facility in the United States, greatly expands on the automaker's ability to test advanced energy storage ...

Chevy Volt wins environmental prize at Festival Automobile International 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

A jury at the Festival International Automobile has selected the Chevrolet Volt for the 2009 Environmental Grand Prize. The jury at the French festival is comprised of artists, media and auto industry representatives and selected winners in multiple categories including the new Alfa Romeo MiTo mini ...

Cold weather will cause the Volt's engine to start up earlier than you might expect 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

For the time being, General Motors is content to let suppliers like A123 Systems, LG Chem and Cobasys focus on cell chemistry for its hybrid and electric vehicle battery packs. GM leaders like Denise Gray and Bob Kruse believe that the key to ensuring that those cells last for (essentially) the ...

VIDEO: NBC grabs the first media drive of a Volt mule! 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

While we've been sitting here drumming our fingers on the table waiting impatiently to get the call from GM to come over to Milford or Warren, the NBC crew swept into town and went for the first media drive of one of the Chevy Volt/Cruze mules. The report that was on NBC's Today show this ...

Green Car Journal picks 5 nominees for Green Car Vision award 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Having honored the VW Jetta TDI as the Green Car of the Year at last month's LA Auto Show, the editors at Green Car Journal are not done with awards just yet. Next up they will be selecting a winner for the Green Car Vision award. The nominees go beyond ordinary concepts and are either current low ...

GM's Jon Laukner claims engine plant delay won't slow Volt 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Over at the GM Fastlane Blog, Jon Laukner, VP of Global Program management has piped up with another Volt update. In spite of the news this week that construction work at a new Flint, MI engine plant had been temporarily halted, Laukner claims it will not effect the Volt or Chevy Cruze production ...

NY Times analyzes how the Volt might get that 100 mpg sticker 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

One of the most persistent questions around the Chevrolet Volt - aside from whether or not GM will be around long enough to build it - is the fuel economy rating. The problem arises from the unique combination of plug-in electric drive and internal combustion range extender. The current standard ...

GM-Volt founder pens open letter in support of GM aid package 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Perhaps one of the biggest fans on the planet of the Chevrolet Volt is Dr. Lyle Dennis, a New York city neuro-surgeon. Immediately after originally seeing the Volt concept in January 2007, Dennis launched GM-Volt.com. Ever since then he and his readers have been cheerleaders for GM's extended-range ...

Chevy Volt program shelved? Absolutely not! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Some of you may have noticed a story posted elsewhere on the interwebs late last evening about the Chevy Volt. As the story goes, a friend of a friend of a friend, etc told the writer that the Volt program was being put on indefinite hold due to the company's money troubles. With GM releasing its ...

LG Chem/CPI reportedly chosen to power the first production Volt 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

According to a Reuters report, General Motors has chosen Troy, MI-based Compact Power Inc. as the supplier of battery packs for the initial production run of Chevrolet Volts. Compact Power is a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate LG Chem and was one of two groups that were awarded ...

GM's E-Flex vehicle to be called Electra in the UK? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Here in the U.S. market, the name Electra was used on big Buick sedans for more than four decades but it hasn't appeared in a new car showroom since 1990. It looks like the Electra could be be making a comeback soon, but not in America. It turns out that Vauxhall, the brand that GM uses to sell ...

Has EPA approved test procedure that would give Volt 100 mpg rating? Not yet! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

After reaching an agreement with the California Air Resources Board recently that would essentially see the Chevy Volt classed as an electric car, it appears GM has now also worked things out with the EPA. The automaker and the environmental protection agency have been discussing just how extended ...

Better Place founder Agassi: Volt will be a "niche product" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

By now many of us around these parts know who Shai Agassi is and what he wants to do. He wants to build a distribution infrastructure of swappable batteries to be used in electric cars with the ultimate goal of making EVs mainstream. The problem is that electric cars remain an expensive ...

VIDEO: Animation showing the power flow in the Chevy Volt 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There has been a fair bit of discussion and controversy in the last couple of weeks on the interwebs about the exact nature of the powerflow and battery charging in the Chevy Volt. Back in July GM's Larry Nitz discussed how the charge sustaining mode would work. As with parallel hybrids the battery ...

GM reaches agreement with CARB on unique classification for Volt 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ever since the Chevrolet Volt appeared as a concept last year, debate has been hot and heavy over exactly what it is. Although many call it a hybrid because it has a battery and an engine, GM prefers to call it an extended range-electric vehicle (ER-EV). That poses a problem for GM when it comes to ...

Tech analysis of GM's new 1.4L four cylinder engine 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

GM's 2011 1.4L four cylinder turbo In Flint, MI on Thursday, General Motors started to reveal some details of the 1.4L four cylinder that will serve duty in two of GM's most important new cars come 2010. This engine may be new to the U.S. market but it isn't an entirely new engine. It's actually ...

Chevy Volt production will add 550 new jobs in Detroit, says GM 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors made its case to a Detroit City Council committee on Wednesday in a bid to get some property tax brakes for its Hamtramck assembly plant. The Poletown plant is where General Motor is planning to build the Chevrolet Volt beginning in late 2010 and GM told the council that the new ...

Poll: 2011 Chevrolet Volt - which do you prefer, concept or production? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Now that you've had time to digest the look of the production Chevrolet Volt in a somewhat more flattering environment, it's time to have your say. Obviously it changed a lot, but that was a necessity to get this first one out the door and meet the performance targets. The wheels shrunk, the ...

Officially Official: 2011 Chevrolet Volt finally revealed! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A week after some admittedly bad photos of the production Chevrolet Volt were accidently released on the GM media website, the car itself was officially unveiled this morning as part of GM's centennial celebration in Detroit. Fortunately, the vehicle we saw this morning looked vastly better ...

VIDEO: General Motors centennial celebration to be broadcast on GMNext 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tuesday is the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of General Motors by Billy Durant. In spite of the financial crisis swirling around all three of the Detroit-based automakers, GM intends to take that day to celebrate. Part of that celebration includes the official unveiling of the production ...

New York Times looks at the Volt and GM's centennial 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Few companies manage to stay in business for 100 years, but for the second time this decade (Ford reached the milestone in 2003) an American-based automaker has hit that threshold. Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of General Motors with a celebration at its world ...

GM confirms plans to sell ER-EVs in Europe in 2011, 50 Volt prototypes this fall 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

GM Europe president Carl-Peter Forster said again this week that the company would launch E-Flex-based extended range EVs on the European market in 2011, about a year behind the Volt launch in North America. In his remarks, Forster referred to both petrol- and diesel-powered ER-EVs, although ...

Production Chevy Volt photos leak out! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Just days after we got a hint of what the production 2011 Chevrolet Volt would look like from some folks who spotted one during filming of Transformers 2, we now have official photos of the actual car. Someone apparently leaked out a series of studio shots of Volt with some of the executives ...

EPA vs the Chevy Volt: Hybrid or electric car? 48mpg or 100mpg? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Chevrolet Volt raises a lot of questions. From its public unveiling in January 2007 people wondered, is it a hybrid or an electric car? Right from day 1 in December 2006 before the auto show, GM officials have called it a range extended electric car. They use the electric car terminology ...

Lutz says a Volt battery supplier selected, won't say who 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At a preview of GM's 2009 model year lineup yesterday in Jolliet IL, Bob Lutz revealed that the production supplier for the Chevy Volt battery has been selected. Unfortunately, the GM Vice Chairman would not say which of the development suppliers had been selected. Two partnerships have been ...

BREAKING: Is this the production Chevy Volt in Transformers 2? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click to enlarge Is the vehicle pictured above the production Chevy Volt? It sure looks like it. It has the right greenhouse profile and judging from the head and tail-lights it looks an awful lot like the teaser shots that GM has been releasing lately. Perhaps the most telling detail though is the ...

Paris Preview: Chevy Cruze official pics released 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for high-res gallery of the 2011 Chevy Cruze Chevrolet has just released official photos of the first car to be based on the company's next generation Delta platform, also known officially as the Global Compact Car platform. The Chevy Cruze will get its official debut at the Paris Motor ...

VIDEO: Charlie Rose talks to Wagoner, Volt price in the mid to upper 30s 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Veteran interviewer Charlie Rose has done a two-part look at General Motors in the wake of the company's recent losses and its pending centennial celebration. In the first part, Rose sits down with Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner to discuss all manner of issues surrounding the ailing automaker, ...

Is A123 Systems losing Black and Decker before its IPO? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Just last week we found out that lithium ion battery maker A123 Systems had filed the first batch of paperwork required for it to make an initial public stock sale. Having tried to read through a few of these kinds of filings in the past, we took a pass this time around. Fortunately our friends at ...

VIDEO: Bob Boniface discusses the changes to the production Volt 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Bob Boniface the director of the E-Flex design studio at GM is in Traverse City MI this week for the Management Briefing Seminars. We already saw the new teaser shots of the Volt released yesterday and Green Fuels Forecast had a chance to speak with Boniface following his presentation. Boniface ...

Fresh views of the production Chevy Volt revealed in ABC news video 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click for high res images ABC news has just posted another video discussing the Chevy Volt. As expected, it's basically a puff piece with nothing particularly earth shattering being revealed as far as technical details. Car and Driver editor Csaba Csere expresses his skepticism that GM can make the ...

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