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Coming in 2015: Silent NASCAR

There are two things that are really easy to understand about electric vehicles - aside from the don't-need-no-gasoline part. One, they have all their torque available from zero RPM. Two, they're quiet. Number one means that EVs are fast off the line (see: Tesla Roadster) and that could mean that, once electric motors and batteries are the powertrain of choice in the racing industry, everything we think we know about what a race sounds like could change. CNN describes the possible future this way: Imagine a sun-swept Texas afternoon in 2015. ... Read more →

GM Europe boss talks about E-Flex plans

During the recent British Motor Show, GM Europe boss was expecting to get deluged with questions about the precarious financial situation at the home office in Detroit. To his surprise he found that ...

Volt pricing and timing takes another twist: under $30 grand by 2010?

Click the Volt for a high-res gallery Round and round we go... where we stop, nobody knows! That sounds like an apt description of the merry-go-round that is the Chevrolet Volt, especially when ...

20,000 people express email interest in buying a Chevy Volt

According to Dr. Lyle Dennis, the founder of the GM-Volt.com fan site, over 20,000 people are on the "Chevy Volt Waiting List." For comparison, the Mitsubishi i-MiEV online petition currently has ...

Is GM "a genius or a dolt for developing the Volt"?

Last week, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. got space in the Wall Street Journal to question "whether GM is a genius or a dolt for developing the Volt." Jenkins suggests that gas prices might drop again. If ...

GM's Chevy Volt update: All systems go, Malibu-based li-ion mules coming soon 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge GM invited a good four dozen or so journalists to the General Motors Technical Center today for an in-depth update on the status of the Chevy Volt. I'll have a seriously nauseating amount of detail for you later, but for now I wanted to share a few highlights. Denise Gray, the ...

Lutz thanks the "Volt Nation" for their enthusiasm 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Back on the March 20, we recapped a bit of news from the first ever meeting of the so-called "Volt Nation" which took place at the New York Auto Show. Now, Lutz would like to thank the Volt Nation, along with ringleader Dr. Lyle Dennis (left, in the photo above), creator of the popular GM-Volt fan ...



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