Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

With anticipation of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV launch growing, General Motors has started to ramp up production of its groundbreaking 200-mile electric car.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2016

Of the three vehicles using GM's newest hybrid system, we know rather less about the 2017 Cadillac CT6 Plug-In Hybrid than we do about either the Chevrolet Volt or the Chevy Malibu Hybrid. But with first media drives of the conventional CT6 now published, we know a bit more than we did before.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 29, 2016

Hybrids are pretty well-known at this point, and battery-electric cars are conceptually simple: You plug them in like a mobile phone. But explaining plug-in hybrids to car buyers at large—it's a hybrid, but it also plugs in, but only for double-digit range—has proven to be very hard.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

In separate presentations at the 2017 SAE High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium in Detroit, R&D executives from GM and Ford each stressed the importance of improved, advanced fuels—among other technology developments—for their future engine efficiency gains and for long-term CO 2 emissions goals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

There is a large drop-off after the three category leaders, with GM and the European-based manufacturers completing the category, Baum said. of total sales—up modestly from 2017. Over a three-year period (not annualized), this category has seen a very strong growth rate of 35%, with the strongest growth in 2017 and 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2017

EDI is currently offering Class-3 through 6 utility solutions with optional exportable power available on Ford, GM, Peterbilt, and now Freightliner platforms. The newly available Freightliner M2 truck rounds out EDI’s portfolio of Class 3-6 zero-emissions utility vehicles with exportable power option.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2015

When General Motors CEO Mary Barra unveiled the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV concept last January at the Detroit Auto Show, the 200-mile electric car was a shock to the industry. Now GM has revealed how it.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 21, 2016

The second-generation Chevrolet Volt is important not only as a high-volume plug-in hybrid, but also because components from its Voltec powertrain are designed to be used in other GM models. Last year, General Motors unveiled the 2016 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid, with a powertrain very similar to the Volt's.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 3, 2016

By virtually all accounts, the second-generation Chevrolet Volt is a handsome, enjoyable, efficient, and comfortable plug-in hybrid hatchback. But as we wrote last summer, "We worry most about GM's ability to explain what the Volt is, why.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 20, 2017

They may also lose the forest for the trees, which is what we're tempted to suggest about a new article that addresses the launch of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car. GM's 238-mile battery-electric hatchback is rolling out. They're easy to understand, and definitive.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2017

General Motors has informed "a few hundred" owners of 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars that their cars could suffer from a problem with the lithium-ion battery pack that could cause it to fail without warning.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Buick will add two new models to its China portfolio—the VELITE 6 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and VELITE 6 battery-electric vehicle (BEV)—to tap into the fast-growing domestic demand for new energy vehicles. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) The VELITE 5 is based on the Chevrolet Volt. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

General Motors is predicting that it will have up to 500,000 vehicles electrified vehicles on the by 2017, the company’s top product development executive said on Wednesday. With a range of fully electric and plug-in electric vehicles already on sale or shortly arriving, GM is on track to sell more than 50,000 vehicles this year [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Costco members in the market for a new vehicle now have a new round of incentives to consider as they head into the final car-buying months of 2017.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 8, 2015

In November 2012, General Motors announced a goal of putting 500,000 electrified vehicles on the road by 2017. That encompasses any type of vehicle that uses electricity as motive power, from mild hybrids to plug-in hybrids, and from extended-range electric cars to all-electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Which carmaker sold 10,000 cars with plugs in September? (No, No, not Tesla, or Nissan, or GM.) This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, October 20, 2017.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2017

In the coming two years, Buick will also launch plug-in hybrids and pure battery electric vehicles to expand its green lineup. The next generation of the Buick Regal sedan will make its Asian debut at Auto Shanghai 2017. Deliveries by Baojun, the biggest riser among all GM brands in March, surged 81% on an annual basis to 81,353 units.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Beginning in late fall 2016, if you’re lucky enough to visit the Warren Technical Center campus of General Motors [NYSE:GM], in Michigan, you might your shuttle quite intriguing: a 2017 Chevrolet Volt, driving itself.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2016

We already knew that at some point, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car would get a European-market twin, to be called the 2017 Opel Ampera-e. The Ampera-e project was announced by GM CEO Mary Barra back in February. Now, Opel has confirmed that it will make its public debut at the 2016 Paris Motor Show in late September.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Just 23 months after GM CEO Mary Barra unveiled the Chevrolet Bolt concept at the Detroit Auto Show, the very first production versions of Chevy's 238-mile electric car to be sold were delivered this morning to eager San Francisco Bay Area buyers. The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will be sold first in California and Oregon, and then.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

In partnership with eight Clean Cities coalitions, Midwest EVOLVE (Electric Vehicle Opportunities: Learning, eVents, Experience) will demonstrate the performance and environmental benefits of plug-in electric vehicles through showcases, ride and drives, and events in communities throughout the seven-state region.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2016

The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV has received largely positive reviews for the production version unveiled last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And as the first affordable 200-mile electric car, expected to go on sale before the end of this year, it will likely reset consumer expectations of what an electric car can be.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2016

General Motors has followed an aggressive schedule for the launch of its 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car. After unveiling the production version of the 200-mile electric car at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show back in January, GM said the Bolt EV would begin rolling off assembly lines before the end of the year.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In last fall's runup to the launch of the production 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV 200-mile electric car, GM discussed working together with Korean corporate giant LG on the Bolt's development. Mark Reuss, GM’s head of global product development said in October that the company's partnership with LG Chem was "unprecedented."

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will be on dealership floors within several weeks, cementing its position as the first affordable 200-mile electric car. It will beat planned 200-mile electric cars from BMW, Nissan, Tesla, Volkswagen, and other makers, and that's all to the good for plug-in car advocates.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2015

The Volt-with-a-V is Chevy''s now-established plug-in hybrid compact hatchback. Green Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Chevrolet Bolt Chevrolet Bolt EV EV1 Future Cars plug-in cars' That''s Bolt-with-a-B, not Volt-with-a-V. DON''T MISS: Why ''Bolt'' Is A Really Terrible Name For Chevy''s Electric Car An all-new.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2016

Electric-car advocates are often passionate, with memories long enough to remember GM's 2004 destruction of its pioneering fleet of EV1 electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2015

Located about 30 miles north of Detroit, the plant will receive an investment of $245 million and add 300 new jobs, GM announced yesterday. The Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car will be built at General Motors' Orion Assembly plant, but it may not be the only new model rolling out of the plant over the next few years.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2015

We learned very few new details about the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV today, but General Motors released a development video that will likely excite fans and potential buyers of the 200-mile electric car. The bulk of today's GM media presentation is about the 2016 Chevy Cruze, to be unveiled tonight.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

The report shows that projected global ZEV adoption from 2015 to 2039 (based on the BNEF 2017 forecast) may follow an s-curve, similar to that of smartphone adoption in the US from 2005 to 2015. As of October 2017, 337,483 ZEVs have been sold in California. GM plans to introduce 20 new ZEV models by 2023, while Ford promises 13.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

North American buyers are eagerly anticipating the debut late next year of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, a 200-mile subcompact electric car promised to sell for $37,500 before incentives. That same car will also likely be sold in Europe, under GM's German Opel nameplate--effectively replacing the Opel Ampera, a Chevy Volt-in-drag.

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Teslarati

APRIL 5, 2022

In late 2020, Hyundai and General Motors both issued recalls for the 2019-2020 Kona and 2017-2019 Bolt EV. In 2022, Chrysler Pacifica Plug-In Hybrid EVs and Volkswagen ID.4 GM reportedly started production of the Bolt EV and EUV once again at its Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan earlier this week.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2017

Bottom: 2017 Chevrolet Volt. The Velite 5 features GM’s proven EVT electronic controlled intelligent variable transmission. Under the Buick Blue strategy, it will introduce additional new energy vehicles in China in the next two years, including hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and pure electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Despite the figure's cause for celebration, the figure may be interpreted as a downside by some since the third quarter's sales in 2017 just inched past Q3 2016 with a 4.5 Electric-car maker Tesla posted its best quarterly sales results in company history after it closed out the third quarter with 26,150 units sold. percent increase.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2017

The workshop is the day before the SAE 2017 Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium , also in San Diego. Toyota, Nissan and GM will provide technology application examples, while Lear, Witricity and Qualcomm will discuss their particular technologies. A separate meeting will be held later for heavy-duty WPT.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 26, 2016

General Motors is getting a lot of mileage out of the second-generation 2016 Chevrolet Volt's plug-in hybrid powertrain. Both the 2016 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid (without a plug) and the 2017 Cadillac CT6 Plug-In Hybrid feature powertrains based on the newest iteration of the Voltec hardware.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2016

But as he inspected the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV during last week's Detroit Auto. Under most circumstances, the man who runs not only global automaker Nissan but the Franco-Japanese Renault-Nissan Alliance displays a serious, thoughtful countenance.

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