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Webchat on Changing Chevrolet Volt Development Leadership: Today 4pm EST

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General Motors is making both of them available for a webchat today at 4 pm EST. Parks was the leader of the global compact car team—the same architecture on which the Volt is based. The webchat can be accessed on the GM FastLane blog site, or below. Tags: Brief. Frank Weber and Doug Parks, Volt Team Leadership Change.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge Electric Pricing Announced at $54,985

The Truth About Cars

Making good on its promise that the future will be electric, Volvo has readied the XC40 Recharge P8 compact crossover for a spring debut. Though it doesn’t seem to have secured an idyllic price tag. The post Volvo XC40 Recharge Electric Pricing Announced at $54,985 appeared first on The Truth About Cars.

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GM Pulls the Plug on New Buick Compact Crossover; Plug-in System to Be Applied to Another Vehicle

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GM has cancelled its recently announced compact Buick crossover, which would have offered the plug-in hybrid system originally targeted for the Saturn VUE. We were all struck by the consistency of the criticism of the compact crossover. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.). This happened in one day.

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It Certainly Looks Like GM Just Teased New Electric Two-Door Models

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The Ultium platform is wildly flexible and is able to underpin everything from the GMC Hummer EV to the compact Chevy Bolt, so we could be talking about almost any kind of two-door vehicle at this point - Ultium-based GMC Syclone, perhaps? However, we’re most likely talking about an electric Corvette or Camaro successor.&

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Alfa Officially States Mileage for Tonale PHEV

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Say what you will – and many have – about the name Alfa Romeo selected for its new compact crossover, there’s no denying the thing fits well into the brand’s current design language. engine which tag teams an electric motor and 15.5-kWh The top-spec Veloce has a starting price tag of $47,495 plus $1,595 destination.

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GM cancels Buick hybrid plans

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GM’s Vice Chairman Tom Stephens wrote on a company blog yesterday that plans for the new hybrid and the ‘compact crossover’ SUV had been cancelled because it “received consistent feedback from large parts of all the audiences that it didn’t fit the premium characteristics that customers have come to expect from Buick.”.

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2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime PHEV: 42 mile EV range/600 total miles! A smash hit!

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Its 42-mile EV range, its 600-mile total range and relatively low price tag have made the PHEV an instant smash hit. The Japanese automaker has used all the lessons it learned from it Prius hybrid car and applied them to its successful compact-SUV. appeared first on Current EV Blog. Demand is intense. A smash hit!

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