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Popular Mechanics September 16, 2008 Larry Webster |
GM Finally Unveils Production Chevy Volt: First Look (Updated) We've been able to eke out some details from engineers here on its propulsion technology, sale price and that oh-so-iPod-esque interior. |
Popular Mechanics May 28, 2009 Frank Weber |
Can GM Make Electric Vehicles Relevant? Analysis Electric vehicles aren't simply for niche markets; they are the future of a sustainable global automotive industry. |
Popular Mechanics September 16, 2008 Paul A. Eisenstein |
Beyond Volt, Insiders Reveal More GM Plug-in Cars on the Way GM designers and engineers are quietly laying the foundation for what could become a full range of plug-in cars that the company refers to as Extended-Range Electric Vehicles, or E-REVs. |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2011 John Rosevear |
Did Electric Cars Just Hit the Wall? Will Chevy Volt battery fires stop the EV revolution before it starts? |
Popular Mechanics January 7, 2007 Ben Stewart |
GM Goes Beyond Hybrid: Chevy's Electric Car Big news from the Detroit auto show, with video: General Motors has a 100-mph, all-electric entry into the market for hybrid 2.0. |
The Motley Fool November 28, 2010 Wolfgang Gruener |
Land of Confusion: Chevy Volt Gets 60 MPG Rating The EPA muddies the waters. |
PC Magazine February 14, 2007 Bill Howard |
Chevy Volt: Short-Haul Electric, Long-Distance Hybrid At the North American International Auto Show in January, GM took the wraps off the Chevrolet Volt. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2010 Philip E. Ross |
Loser: Why the Chevy Volt Will Fizzle General Motors' Chevrolet Volt hybrid car is a courageous design, but it won't make money |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2010 Howard Lovy |
Own a Volt, Get a Jolt With Free Chargers From GM and the Feds The money to cover the 4,400 freebie 240-volt chargers comes from federal stimulus dollars. |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2011 John Rosevear |
Why the Chevy Volt Is Such a Scandal What started as teething trouble with new tech is metastasizing into a Great American Scandal. |
The Motley Fool January 8, 2007 Rich Smith |
Will Anyone Kill the Gasoline Car? Last year's eco-movie Who Killed the Electric Car? bills itself as a documentary -- a movie based entirely on fact. GM investors, meanwhile, will be hoping that in a few years' time, the Volt will turn out to be something more than fiction. |
BusinessWeek May 13, 2010 Richard McGill Murphy |
Eclectic Electrics With the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf hitting showrooms this year, the mass-produced electric car - a century-old dream - becomes a reality. So what are designers dreaming up next? |
Popular Mechanics April 4, 2008 Ben Stewart |
GM Testing Volt's Battery, iPhone-like Dash on Track to 2010 Although still not quite set for prime time, it's easy to get excited about the Volt -- which could be America's first production plug-in hybrid vehicle. GM is now testing two batteries in what amounts to a horse race for the future of driving. |
Inc. November 1, 2009 Bernard Avishai |
The Connected Car The introduction of the Chevy Volt and other electric vehicles will require a vast ecosystem of entrepreneurial businesses. |
The Motley Fool December 19, 2008 Rich Smith |
China Closing GM's Coffin The first car company to reach the market with an actual, workable electric car will not be based in Detroit, but in Shenzhen. BYD is the name. |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Battery Makers Take a Back Seat at Auto Show Makers of electric cars are looking elsewhere for their power. |
The Motley Fool August 29, 2011 Evan Niu |
GM and LG Renew Their Vows Two familiar partners get together for a new agreement. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 |
Why the Chevy Volt Doesn't Add Up Plug-in hybrids with big batteries, like the Chevy Volt, may never save consumers any money. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 |
Why Plug-Ins Will Make (Dollars and) Sense Q&A with the electric power research institute's Mark Duvall. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 John Voelcker |
Lithium Batteries for Hybrid Cars Hybrid cars need to travel farther in electric-only mode, and that means lithium-ion battery technologies have a lot riding on them. |
Outside April 2007 Amanda Griscom Little |
Detroit Takes Charge Electric cars are poised to make a comeback and this time they might stick around for good. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 John Voelcker |
Battery Czar Denise Gray had to take a city bus to her first job at GM, but now she holds the company's green-car future in her hands |
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 John Voelcker |
Lithium Batteries On The Way For Hybrids In just one year, the whens and wheres of lithium battery packs for hybrid and electric cars have come into much sharper focus |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Don't Get Hopes Up for Battery Makers Battery makers need to get a little that momentum back by showing progress in commercial vehicles and grid applications. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 John Voelcker |
Will Washington Kick-start the U.S. Battery Biz? The United States will need a domestic lithium-ion manufacturing industry to meet its plug-in goals |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Battery Makers Are In the Hot Seat After the Chevy Volt fire and layoffs at A123 Systems, the battery business is in rough shape. |
Popular Mechanics June 3, 2009 Clayton B. Cornell |
The CODA: Could This Chinese-Electric Come to California? At noon today, nascent auto-maker CODA announced a new electric car available in California in fall 2010. The fully electric sedan will have a range of 90-100 miles on a fully-charged battery. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 John Voelcker |
Chevy Volt Sparks a Series of Plug-in Hybrids Expect many new plug-in cars to use the gasoline engine only as an extra battery |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2009 Rich Smith |
General Motors: Specifically Shameless No sooner does A123 commit itself to opening battery factories right next door to Detroit, no sooner does it promise to invest $2.3 billion in the effort to supply 5 million hybrid car batteries by 2013, then GM pulls the rug out from under A123, giving the contract to a foreign company. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 John Voelcker |
Ev Roundup: Electric Vehicles Move Forward...Slowly A Chevrolet Volt update, two tiny Japanese EVs, and even a Tesla lawsuit |
Fast Company Luke Dormehl |
GM Will Go Head-To-Head With Tesla In Race To Build $30K Electric Vehicle Elon Musk might want to check his rearview mirror. General Motors announced today that it is hot on his tail, pledging to build an affordable electric car in 2017. |
Chemistry World September 19, 2007 Ned Stafford |
Electric Cars Hoping for Lithium Ion Revolution General Motors is betting that chemists are close to solving the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle puzzle, by developing rechargeable batteries that are safe, robust, long-lasting, and inexpensive. |
The Motley Fool November 24, 2010 Travis Hoium |
We're Focusing on the Wrong Electric-Vehicle Market Scooters and commercial vehicles are where progress is really being made. |
Popular Mechanics September 15, 2008 Daniel Krach |
Living With Hydrogen, Gas Prices Become Incentive for Progress Getting to a future of hydrogen-electric hybrids that will wean us from gasoline for good will require more battery and fuel cell research and convincing Americans that $4/gallon gas can be a good thing. |
The Motley Fool January 6, 2012 Travis Hoium |
Another Auto Deal Sets A123 Systems Up for Disappointment A new deal with VIA Motors won't change the fortunes for A123 Systems. |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2010 John Rosevear |
Autos Weekly: Toyota's Return to Arrogance? Toyota's efforts at world domination resume. Plus: Good news for GM, and the coming battery glut. |
IndustryWeek April 21, 2010 Steve Minter |
Charged Up About Electric Cars Household names and newcomers alike are racing to develop cars that offer freedom from the gas pump. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jim Motavalli |
3 Big Questions for the Electric Car's Future With big pushes from GM, Ford and Toyota, plug-in hybrids are back in the spotlight, but lurking in the shadows is the same old problem: building a lightweight, powerful, affordable battery. |
Popular Mechanics February 6, 2008 Chuck Tannert |
Inside Plug-in Car Tech's Race to Production (and Top 10 Rides) Big automakers and promising startups say electric vehicles are coming as soon as next year, but there's a lot of work to be done by scientists before lithium-ion batteries are ready for mainstream hybrids. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2011 Dan Radovsky |
Fast and Luxurious Plug-Ins Chasing Tesla General Motors enters the luxury electric with a plug-in Cadillac. |
Popular Mechanics November 29, 2009 Barry Winfield |
2011 Chevrolet Volt Pre-Production Test Drive (With Video!) The Volt is still about a year away from production, with an intended launch date of November 2010. It appears to be just as livable, comfortable and quick (and in sport mode much more so) as conventional hybrids on the road today. |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2011 John Rosevear |
GM's Global Search for Growth As the major auto markets stagnate, GM is looking even further abroad for new growth. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 David Schneider |
Plug-in Vehicles Proliferate Full battery-electric and hybrid-electric plug-in vehicles will start hitting the streets in significant numbers later this year |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 John Voelcker |
Show Recap: Detroit Goes Electro-tastic! Slammed by the economic crisis, most carmakers showed hybrid or electric vehicles |
The Motley Fool October 14, 2011 John Rosevear |
Does GM's New Electric Car Matter? It does, but not in the way you might think. |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2011 John Rosevear |
General Motors' Chinese Secret It's GM's biggest success story, but there's a big catch. |
The Motley Fool June 11, 2011 Rich Smith |
Ford Trumps Toyota ... and imitates Volt. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Can GM Save A123 Systems? General Motors announces that A123 Systems will supply battery packs for the upcoming Chevy Spark EV and the market jumps back on the electric-vehicle bandwagon again. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2011 Travis Hoium |
EV Battle: Focus Electric Vs. Model S Ford's all-electric Focus is making headlines, but does it beat Tesla's Model S? |
Popular Mechanics September 16, 2008 Ray Wert |
As Volt Lands, Can GM Learn From Prius & Make Plug-in Cars Big? The key for GM will be to move as quickly as possible -- faster than Toyota did -- in ramping up production on the Volt. |