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Personal: Chevy Volt—Still Electric After All These Years

Clean Fleet Report

I was at the end of a 3-year lease and a 6-month extension on my 2018 Chevrolet Volt Plug-in Hybrid. I love several things about the Volt that tipped my decision to buy out the lease and keep on driving—mostly on electricity: The Lectron charger has style and speed. Decision time came last month for me. It’s fast, chargin at 3.86

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Tesla charger gaffe causes instant regret for Chevy Volt driver

Teslarati

For a Tesla owner and a driver of a Chevrolet Volt, however, there was a moment in this story when things didn’t look like they would end well at all. . At the scene was a mangled Tesla charging cable. . The Tesla Model 3 needed a new charge port door as a result of the accident.

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New OnStar app shows cost of Volt charging

Green Car Congress

OnStar is testing a smartphone app that tells Chevrolet Volt owners how much it costs to charge their battery and compares their Volt’s energy use with the total energy consumed in their home by day, month or year. The app also collects Volt charging information from OnStar subscribers and Volt owners who opt in for EcoHub.

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GM enters commercial agreement with and invests in Powermat, a personal device inductive charging company

Green Car Congress

Chevy Volt Powermat. General Motors and Powermat, a provider of wireless charging technology for mobile personal devices, announced a commercial agreement that will eliminate the need for charging cords for personal electronic devices in many future Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac products beginning mid-2012.

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Volkswagen starts update program for ID.4 software in US, with performance improvements and new features

Green Car Congress

New features to enhance the charging experience and further improve system performance will be available on MY21 and certain MY22 vehicles. 4 offer is the included three years of fast-charging on the Electrify America network—the nation’s largest open DC fast charging network—and this latest iteration of ID.4

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Personal: One in a Million

Clean Fleet Report

I think that’s fair since on a good day my 3 ½-year-old Chevrolet Volt has a 61-mile all-electric range, roughly comparable to a used Nissan Leaf or Fiat 500e. Would I have bought my Volt without the rebate? Hold onto your charge plug, it looks like it’s going to be another great year. Nissan Leaf EV – 4,192.

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Enefit VOLT Transforms into a New Charging Network Using Driivz Technology

Driivz

Enefit VOLT, the largest electric vehicle fast charging network in Estonia, selected Driivz, the leading EV charging and energy management software platform provider, to optimize its network operations and provide excellent EV charging experiences to EV drivers.

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