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At Witz' End: Notes from "The Business of Plugging In"

EV business may be booming soon I dropped by the Center for Automotive Research's (CAR) "The Business of Plugging In" conference in Detroit recently and came away with a collection of quotes and useful information from movers and shakers working to make vehicle electrification happen. Most reasonable observers understand that electric vehicles will not replace liquid-fueled vehicles in large numbers any time soon due to their three key disadvantages of high battery cost, limited driving range and long recharge times. But everyone ... Read more →

GM: Volt won't become a brand name Jeremy Korzeniewski

The Chevrolet Volt isn't scheduled to hit the market for another whole year, but there's so much anticipation for the vehicle that some are already asking if The General will try to make a brand ...

VIDEO: GM puts the Volt through its paces to test durability Jeremy Korzeniewski

These days, we hardly give any thought at all to driving our precious cars and trucks over rough, potholed pavement. Sure, it's uncomfortable and we avoid the nastiest stretches when possible, but ...

Live webchat with Frank Weber and Doug Parks today at 4pm Sam Abuelsamid

Frank Weber, who has served as the vehicle line engineer for the Chevrolet Volt program for the past two and an half years, is packing up his wife and kids and moving back to Germany next month. ...

Editorial: Henderson's fuel cell 10X cost comments are out of context Sam Abuelsamid

The other day we reported on an interview with General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson published in the Washington Post. While most of the discussion focused on the bailout and bankruptcy, from the ...

Chevy Volt leader Frank Weber leaving for Opel, reaffirms Volt remains on track 10 days ago on Autoblog Green

One of the main men working to get the Chevy Volt out the door on time, Frank Weber, has announced he will leave General Motors on December 1 for a senior leadership post at Opel. This is the first high-ranking member of the Volt team to leave and told Bloomberg that GM remains strongly ...

GM CEO: electric cars require teamwork; hydrogen cars 10x more expensive than Volt 10 days ago on Autoblog Green

New GM CEO Fritz Henderson has some good words for his competitors. Surprised? It's all in an effort to make sure that plug-in vehicles get the help they need to become cost competitive. Henderson spoke with the Washington Post and said that costs are the big problem holding back electric cars. ...

Posawatz: Volt range-extended mileage to be "better than any conventional car." But what about hybrids? 17 days ago on Autoblog Green

So, plenty of time has passed since General Motors first made the announcement that its Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle would score 230 miles per gallon on the yet-to-be-completed EPA testing procedure for such vehicles. Still, lots of questions remain, such as How many miles per ...

GM invites Volt fans to name first color and win a test drive! 19 days ago on Autoblog Green

Take a close look at the Chevy Volt in the photo above. We've seen it a number of times already but we've never said anything about the color. While it's predominantly silver, it does have a green (or more specifically emerald) tint in it. According to General Motors spokesman David Darovitz, this ...

PEV 2009: GM's Lauckner wishes for bigger incentives to get drivers out of gas-powered vehicles 19 days ago on Autoblog Green

At this point, it's no secret that the Chevy Volt and other plug-in vehicles are not going to come cheap. The least-pricey full-speed electric vehicle may very well be the Nissan Leaf, which after incentives might drop into the $27-28,000 range before the extra cost of leasing the battery. While the ...

GM's OnStar EV Lab opens its doors, loves the Chevy Volt 20 days ago on Autoblog Green

One of the features that GM is promoting with the Chevy Volt, due late next year, is a completely new level of connectivity for the plug-in hybrid. Well, completely new isn't quite right. The Volt will certainly communicate with the grid and with GM in new ways, but the underlying OnStar ...

GM: Soon, Detroit will earn its nickname as the Motor City 20 days ago on Autoblog Green

What's in a name, anyway? Detroit has been known as the Motor City for longer than this blogger has been alive, but is that moniker actually a misnomer? Well, that depends... are you the type that believes motors are driven by electricity and engines by something else? How does one explain ...

Reader spots Chevy Volt prototype parked in a driveway 22 days ago on Autoblog Green

One of our ever-alert readers has been out walking the neighborhood armed with a camera this weekend when he spotted one of the most anticipated cars of the next few years. Sitting in a neighbor's driveway was a Chevy Volt IVER prototype. We know GM has been out running the Volts on public roads ...

Webchat with Tony Posawatz and Felix Kramer, 3:30pm EST today 24 days ago on Autoblog Green

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 ...

Catching up with Chevrolet's 1,200 mile pre-production Volt fleet drive 25 days ago on Autoblog Green

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 pre-production (a.k.a. IVER) Volts set out from the company's Milford Proving Ground in Michigan on a ...

Last pre-production Volt comes off the assembly line 27 days ago on Autoblog Green

The saga of the Chevrolet Volt's run from concept to production reality has taken yet another step as the 80th and final pre-production car has just rolled down GM's assembly line in Warren, Michigan. Just like all the other Volt engineering mules built up to this point, this car is headed for a ...

GM investing $230M in Flint area facilities to support Chevrolet Cruze, Volt 27 days ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors announced today that it will spend $230 million on four facilities in the Flint, Michigan area that will support the production of the new Chevy Cruze compact and the Volt extended-range EV. The biggest chunk of the money ($202 million) is being spent on the Flint South Engine ...

Chevy Volt heads to Pikes Peak to practice mountain climbing 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

One of the main concerns that many people have about the Chevy Volt is how well it will perform when running in charge sustaining mode with the engine-generator cranking away. While we haven't yet had an opportunity to try out any of the Volts or Cruze mules operating in this fashion, the ...

REPORT: GM sees more demand than supply with the Chevy Volt in the beginning 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors has already warned us that the Chevrolet Volt will be in short supply at launch. But that isn't stopping Bob Lutz, GM's vice chairman in charge of marketing, from going out and talking about how popular the car – due next year – already is. Lutz told Automotive News ...

REPORT: EPA planning to address outlandish fuel economy claims of electric cars 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

The EPA is aware that range-extended electric vehicles can game the current fuel economy test to deliver mileage estimates way up in the stratosphere. It makes for impressive advertising, like General Motors' touting of the Chevrolet Volt's estimated 230 mpg, but the EPA wants to give a more ...

GM and Toyota agree: gas, battery prices defining parameters for plug-in acceptance 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

GM has not been secretive about how important gas prices in late 2010 will be on the price of the Chevy Volt. During a webchat this week, GM vice chairman Bob Lutz said again that higher gas prices are needed for the Volt to become "generalized." Specifically, he said: The Volt technology is ...

REPORT: Chevy Volt to start at $32,000 after tax credit? 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

While we know a good bit of information about GM's upcoming range-extended electric automobile, one major question lurks high above the rest: how much with the Chevy Volt cost? Well, that's a tough nut to crack. There will be a sticker price plastered on the car's window when it finally goes on ...

Survey says... nearly half of Americans want to buy something like the Volt, but do they want to pay? 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Chevrolet Volt is a data driven design in many ways. The shape is driven by aerodynamic data. Its conception was in part driven by public perception data. Its powertrain architecture was driven by empirical data about how drivers actually use their cars. For example, roughly three quarters ...

Audi pres walks back "Volt for idiots" comment some more, still loves diesels 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Audi North America President Johan de Nysschen has spent a lot of time thinking about his choice of words when he claimed only idiots would buy the Chevy Volt. He began to step away from his remarks pretty much as soon as he made them, but it never hurts to spend even more time clarifying that what ...

VIDEO: Aerodynamics adds 7 miles to Volt electric range 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Back in the spring of 2008 when General Motors took us on a tour of its wind tunnel facility, chief engineer Frank Weber emphasized the importance of aerodynamics in maximizing the electric driving range of the Volt. At that time, all we got see was a one-third scale model covered in various ...

Opel now testing Ampera ER-EV mules in Germany 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Now that the GM's Chevy Volt engineering team here in the U.S. is starting to get their hands on the 80 IVER prototypes, some of the Cruze based mules they have been using since last fall are being freed up for other uses. That means the engineers at Opel can now get some for local testing in ...

Audi of America president calls Chevy Volt "a car for idiots," slams electric vehicles 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

When an automotive executive says something brash and outrageous, we sometimes call it "Going Lutz." The green car world has it's own special phrase – "Going Musk" – and we always look forward to the next item that makes us go, "Huh? Really?" They're so much more exciting than the daily ...

GM's Britta Gross promotes both sides of the hydrogen, EV fence 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

- We've heard Britta Gross, GM's manager of Hydrogen and Electrical Infrastructure Development, speak on various occasions about the Volt and other advanced technology projects, so we're familiar with some of what she has to say. We wanted to point out two items from her recent interview with ...

Paying attention? Why the Volt's fender and hood cut lines were altered 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

By now, we've likely all seen dozens of pictures of the latest Chevy Volt integration vehicle engineering releases – better known as IVERs – running around GM's various testing facilities. Our own Sam Abuelsamid even hitched a ride in one. Unless you're paying really close ...

Q&A: What happens if the Chevy Volt sleeps with the fishes? 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Ever wonder what will happen if an electric vehicle is submerged under water? It seems to be a valid concern, what with all those amps seemingly ready to discharge at a moments notice into the ocean blue. Worry not, electric car fans, automakers like General Motors have got your backs. Our ...

Australian Premier lobbying for Volt built Down Under 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

As has been reported in the past, GM's Australian arm is waiting in eager anticipation for a Holden-badged version of the Chevy Volt to hit the market Down Under in 2012. That car will be assembled here in the United States and is little more than a standard Volt minus the Bowtie emblem on the ...

As a green brand, will the Volt be able to compete with Prius? 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Those of us who follow the green car world on a daily basis could ramble on for an hour, at least, on the differences between the Chevy Volt and the Toyota Prius. They're not really in the same category, if you know what an ER-EV is. But for the general public, the two cars are probably best ...

REPORT: GM could build 70,000 Chevy Volts a year 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

The most recent estimates indicate that GM plans to make 200-400 Chevy Volts in 2010 and then about around 10,000 in 2011. These numbers are down significantly from predictions a few years ago of 60,000 Volts in the first year. CNET, though, thinks that the actual number of plug-in hybrids, ...

VIDEO: Installing the battery pack in the first Volt IVER 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

In the latest installment of General Motors' ongoing video series chronicling the build process for the pre-production Chevy Volts, you can now see the installation of a battery pack. In fact according to the video, this is the very first attempt at a pack install. Aside from creating the ...

Nissan LEAF vs. Chevy Volt challenge, deluxe edition 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Recently, we ran a poll on which car AutoblogGreen readers preferred: the Chevy Volt or the Nissan LEAF (the Volt won). We were talking with some green car advocates recently who proposed the following scenario: what if Nissan is able to sell the LEAF and a standard ICE vehicle for the same ...

VIDEO: Quick Ride: Chevrolet Volt IVER prototype 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

While visiting GM's product technology showcase this week, we had the opportunity to take a tour through the pre-production operations area where the IVER – integration vehicle engineering release – Volts are coming together and then later go for a ride in one with chief engineer ...

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