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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac.

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Road Test: 2023 Volvo XC60 Recharge Ultimate

Clean Fleet Report

With a fully charged battery, the XC60 Recharge can go 36 miles on pure electricity (speed-limited to about 80 mph) and has a 63 MPGe rating. Fast and composed In a few 0-60 mph runs, we consistently clocked around 4.6 In our week driving through Southern California, we averaged 32.8 Removing eyes from the road is never a good thing.

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Road Test: 2022 Acura RDX SH-AWD A-Spec Advance

Clean Fleet Report

mpg over a 130-mile run with the adaptive cruise control set at 65 mph. Road Test: 2020 BMW X3 xDrive30e PHEV. News: BMW iX3 All-Electric Crossover. Road Test: 2021 Buick Envision. We were hoping to get 30 mpg on the highway, but no matter how hard we tried the best we could do was 28.1 Road Test: 2018 Volvo XC60 PHEV.

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Road Test: 2022 Genesis GV70 AWD 3.5T Sport Prestige

Clean Fleet Report

Where we did much better was on a 102-mile freeway run in either Eco or Smart mode and with the adaptive cruise control set at 65 mph, we achieved 27.5 The GV70 competes against premium small SUVs including the Acura RDX , Audi Q3, BMW X3, Buick Envision , Lexus NX , Lincoln Corsair, Mercedes-Benz GLC, Tesla Model Y and the Volvo XC60.

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