Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From the Nissan Leaf to the Lucid Air, with the Toyota Prius, Chevy Volt, and Tesla Model 3 among the many formative models in between, our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy winners each year have offered not just what we think you should buy, but a glimpse of the future.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Toyota is recalling a significant number of RAV4s for an odd problem with replacement 12-volt battery sizes. The automaker’s recall announcement stated that “some replacement 12-volt batteries of the size specified for the subject vehicles have smaller top dimensions than others. The automaker recently announced a recall of around 1.85

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Hyundai has been a high achiever with its 800-volt E-GMP platform for electric vehicles. And while those underpinnings are what enable the Ioniq 6 to be one of the best new vehicles of the year, design and styling are what get it noticed at first sight.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

With the end of Chevrolet Volt production last week, it looks more like pure electric cars are winning the race to transform driving over more complicated, if versatile plug-in hybrids.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

General Motors confirmed Monday morning that it plans to cease production of the Chevrolet Volt in March, as part of an effort to streamline production and pivot its business more toward zero-emissions and personal-mobility efforts. The Volt was the first production plug-in car sold in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

Enterprise Rent-A-Car will be the first to offer Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicles (EVs) for daily and weekly rentals later this month. The Volt vehicles will be available at the Mark Christopher Auto Center in Ontario, Calif., along with a new charging station.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Mercedes emphasizes how much efficiency matters in an aero-savvy, 800-volt concept. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Audi previews a new cabin interface for future EVs. And does the Polestar 2 make more sense in rear-wheel-drive form?

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Sales of plug-in electric cars in September chugged along steadily, with consistent sales from the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid and a stronger number for the Nissan Leaf battery-electric car. That's.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Chevrolet says it has made the charging system in the next-generation Volt even easier for customers to recharge the battery and to check the charge status. The next-generation Volt debuts in January in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show. The car will recognize when it arrives “home” based on GPS data.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Chevrolet announced that Volt owners collectively have driven more than 100 million all-electric miles since the vehicle went on sale two years ago this month. The average Volt owner travels more than 65% of the time in pure electric mode as the car was designed, only using the gasoline-powered generator for longer trips.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Cybertruck pulled off a shift to 48 volts. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The House votes on what appears to be a broad misunderstanding of proposed EPA rules. The EPA is very optimistic about the Tesla Cybertruck qualifying for the EV tax credit. And why didn’t some EVs and PHEVs make the cut?

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2019

In an effort to clear out the last of its inventory, General Motors has added the Chevrolet Volt to its list of models eligible for an 18 percent discount off sticker price this month. When it went on sale in December 2010, the Volt was the first mainstream-brand plug-in car of the modern era (beating the Nissan Leaf by a matter of days.)

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Porsche reveals a new generation of 800-volt EV tech in the Macan SUV. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Biden’s national EV charging network is up and running in Ohio. And if you don’t need a lot of range, Hyundai’s repositioning of the Kona Electric might make a lot of sense.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years; the Chevy Volt won the Canadian electric-car sales trophy for the seventh time in seven months.

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InsideEVs

JUNE 6, 2023

Out of Spec Reviews' Kyle Conner says the 12-volt battery went flat after the car sat parked overnight.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 22, 2014

Until recently, the Chevy Volt was the only range-extended electric car available in the U.S. I''ve driven a Volt for almost three years now, and it''s been a splendid car--quiet, smooth, peppy, and amazingly economical.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 13, 2014

The current 2015 Chevrolet Volt, now in its fifth year, will be the last of its generation before a revised and updated 2016 Volt is unveiled next January and goes on sale later in the year.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

I was at the end of a 3-year lease and a 6-month extension on my 2018 Chevrolet Volt Plug-in Hybrid. It’s now what’s know as an orphan car—no longer in production as GM moves to full electrics. The car has been nearly flawless. Its second oil change was forced as part of the hand-over from the dealer. It’s fast, chargin at 3.86

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

General Motors announced it would kill the Chevrolet Volt in mid-2019. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Rivian revealed its good-looking electric truck. A new report details how much climate change will hurt the U.S. And new solid-state batteries from China.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2019

Following news in late November that General Motors would kill off the Chevrolet Volt, one of the pioneers of modern plug-in cars, a senior GM executive has hinted—strongly—that it won't be back.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Sales of plug-in electric cars continued at a steady pace in November, reflecting continued strong vehicle sales of all types in the U.S. The Nissan Leaf set a new November record at 2,687 cars sold, its 22nd straight month of sales increases year-over-year, while the Chevy Volt delivered 1,336 cars last month.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

As more battery-electric cars are sold and more drivers become aware of them, the question of battery life recurs among pretty much every potential buyer. Data on the liquid-cooled battery packs of older Tesla Model S and Chevrolet Volt cars offers. How long will the battery last?

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 5, 2023

It shares that car’s striking new shape, the one that wowed reviewers and shoppers. The 2023 Toyota Prius Prime is a plug-in hybrid version of the conventional 2023 Prius hybrid launched earlier this year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 23, 2022

Elon Musk and Drew Baglino say 800-volt architecture is not in the cards for existing Tesla models.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And Porsche reveals some lessons it’s learned from its Taycan electric car. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Porsche made the right choice in building its Taycan around an 800-volt battery pack, but it underestimated the. GM and Volvo see EV vs. ICE price parity by 2025.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2018

Chevrolet's Volt wasn't the original, or even the first Volt from GM. Electric Auto Corporation receives that distinction for their car built in 1980, at the height of America's second gas crisis. It built the Silver Volt, a plug-in hybrid based on a contemporary Buick station wagon—16 years before the GM EV1.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Sales of the two highest-volume plug-in electric cars soared in August, with both the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf setting all-time monthly sales records.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 7, 2014

I recently leased a 2014 Chevy Volt to replace my Mitsubishi i-MiEV, and I expect that it will free me even more from using gasoline than the i-MiEV--which was a battery electric car that used no gas at all. The Volt has a range-extending gasoline engine to charge the battery after the first 40.'

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2014

The Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car remains Canada''s plug-in sales champion, but the Nissan Leaf battery-electric--the best-selling electric car in history--is coming up fast in its rear-view mirror As consistently as the Toyota Camry tops the U.S.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 20, 2024

Stellantis has reaffirmed a claim of 500 miles of range for its STLA dedicated EV platform, set to underpin several future cars, crossovers, and SUVs from the automaker. Other details now being confirmed include capability for 400-volt or 800-volt charging, with fast charging at 4.5 kwh per minute with 800-volt hardware.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

vehicle sales last month are expected to fall overall as data rolls in, August has traditionally been a very good month for sales of plug-in electric cars. The Chevrolet Volt, for one, kept up its pace this year, with August sales of 2,081, for an eight-month total of 14,295 Volts delivered so far this year.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 7, 2017

A record 582 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids were sold in Canada last month, two months after Chevy delivered a then-record 483 Volts in September. The achievement is even more impressive considering Canadian car sales dropped by 15 percent between the two months, as the industry enters its slow season.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 28, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: How the Chevrolet Volt really works, Tesla seeks workers for a second California facility, and why we can''t buy cars that get 60, 70, or 80 mpg. All this and more on Green Car Reports. See how their second.'

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2023

Does the 2023 Toyota Prius Prime reboot the formula pioneered by the Chevy Volt for the better? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. How do the aero-focused VW ID.7 7 and plush Mercedes EQE SUV drive? And automakers start to detail which models are eligible for the full $7,500 tax credit amount.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 25, 2012

The Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car has been on sale for over a year now. You might have caught our previous guide to the Volt, but so much can happen in such a short space of time that there's always something new to add. Over the next few pages you'll find links to all sorts of information about the Volt.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 5, 2017

In May, the Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid was the highest-selling car with a plug in the U.S. Last month, however, the Chevrolet Volt recaptured its usual spot at the top of the plug-in sales charts for those manufacturers who report monthly sales. Chevy sold 1,745 Volts, slightly down from the May number of.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2018

When General Motors announced in November that it would stop production of the Chevrolet Volt, it was a shock to many green car fans' systems. The Volt was one of the first two modern electrically powered cars to go on sale in 2010, and is still the longest-range plug-in hybrid on the market.

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