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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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2009

General Motors Company is investing more than $230 million in four GM plants in the greater Flint, Michigan area to support the production of the fuel-efficient 2011 Chevrolet Cruze and Volt extended range electric vehicle. four-cylinder engine generator for the Volt and the 1.4L

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Chevrolet this week recalled two months worth of production Bolt EVs and Volt plug-in hybrids over a potential brake issue that could increase stopping distances of the small vehicles. The recall affects 2018-2019 Chevrolet Bolt EV and 2018-2019 Volt models sold in the U.S. and Canada.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2012

Opel has so far received some 7,000 orders for the Ampera electric vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt’s European cousin. In the US, General Motors is suspending production of the Volt for five weeks starting 19 March, due to higher inventory than demand.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 4, 2012

Buoyed by record monthly sales of its Chevy Volt hybrid electric plug-in car in March, General Motors will resume production of the Volt at the Detroit Hamtramck plant one week early, the United Auto Workers told Talking Points Memo on Tuesday night.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

General Motors is investing $163.2-million million in its operations in Flint and Bay City, Michigan, and Defiance, Ohio, to support engine production for the Chevrolet Volt, Chevrolet Cruze and a new Chevrolet small car to be built in the United States. variant used in the Chevrolet Volt. million (41 jobs).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Developed by General Motors and built in partnership with the pioneering electric drag racing team Hancock and Lane Racing, the concept race car—based on the 2019 COPO Camaro —is driven by an electric motor providing the equivalent of more than 700 horsepower and 600 lb-ft (813 N·m) of torque.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Chevrolet Volt electric car will go on sale at 13 Shanghai GM Chevrolet dealerships in eight Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Foshan. The announcement was made Monday as part of General Motors’ participation in Auto Guangzhou 2011.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2015

General Motors will stop production of the current-generation 2015 Chevrolet Volt next month as it prepares to launch the all-new 2016 model. A production stoppage will give GM time to retool the Detroit-Hamtramck plant that builds the Volt for the new model. sales Production plug-in cars'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2011

Concurrent with upcoming deliveries of the Chevrolet Volt to dealerships in California, Connecticut (Tri-State Metro Area), Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Washington, D.C., Volts will be shipped to Chevrolet dealerships with 40% HV battery state-of-charge and two gallons of fuel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

General Motors on Monday outlined a series of major restructuring steps that it said would accelerate its transformation for the future, building on the strategy it laid out in 2015 to strengthen its core business, to capitalize on the future of personal mobility and to drive significant cost efficiencies. Optimizing product portfolio.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2012

Posawatz has consistently been recognized as an industry leader in product innovation and electrified vehicles and served as Chairman of the Board for the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA). He is a real product guy for a product driven company. Tony is the perfect CEO for Fisker. —outgoing CEO Tom LaSorda.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2017

Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand, has expanded its offerings to include a new monthly service, Maven Reserve. In 13 months, Maven has launched three products and has grown to 17 cities in the U.S. The Chevrolet Tahoe and Volt are among the most popular vehicles in the Maven City car-sharing portfolio.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 10, 2011

It all started when General Motors CEO Dan Akerson said the company wanted to "double" production of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, its range-extended electric car. So far, GM has not officially said it will make more Volts. Various media outlets reported the news with varying degrees of accuracy.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 8, 2009

GM to invest $336 million in Volt plant. General Motors Co will invest $336 million in a Detroit-area plant to produce its heavily anticipated Chevrolet Volt electric car beginning next year, the No. Tags: Production News Detroit GM Chevy Volt. automaker said on Monday.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

General Motors today announced initiatives for customer satisfaction and outlined its steps in battery safety research to ensure ongoing confidence in the safety of Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle. The current de-powering process begins when GM is notified of a Volt crash through OnStar. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 29, 2012

The Chevrolet Volt electric car, now in its third model year, has survived the bankruptcy and government-led restructuring of General Motors, politically motivated attacks on electric cars, a battery-safety investigation by the NHTSA, and some breathtakingly inept marketing efforts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

At an event in the GM Tech Center campus in Warren, Michigan, General Motors unveiled the core of its new strategy to grow the company’s EV sales quickly, efficiently and profitably. Photo by Steve Fecht for General Motors). GM’s all-new modular platform and battery system, Ultium.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

General Motors will invest $336 million in the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to begin production of the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle in 2010. This brings GM’s combined Volt-related investments in Michigan to $700 million, covering eight facilities. engine-generator from Flint.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 28, 2012

Yesterday, Automotive News (subscription required) reported the news that the Detroit Hamtramck facility, where the 2013 Chevrolet Volt is made, is to pause production of the plug-in hybrid for four weeks.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 21, 2023

General Motors’ fortunes are tied heavily to its new Ultium EV technology. Unlike Williams, Edmunds got a 12-volt system error, but both experienced issues charging. It underpins several existing and upcoming models and is the basis of the automaker’s EV efforts, costing billions of dollars and years of development.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Current EV business models are doomed unless manufacturers that have bet their futures on them, such as General Motors and VW, invest in or coordinate on a robust supercharger network. Other automakers are still playing a product game. billion developing the Chevy Volt. Tesla has played the platform game.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2012

General Motors is restructuring its vehicle line team structure within its Global Product Development organization to consolidate current vehicle development executive roles and streamline global vehicle development. Parks, who has been appointed to the newly created position of vice president, Product Programs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Chevrolet plans to produce 10,000 Volt extended range electric vehicles by the end of the 2011 calendar year, and an additional 30,000 Volts during the 2012 calendar year, according to Volt Marketing Director Tony DiSalle, who made the announcements during a live video webcast 1 July. Earlier post.). Nashville, Tenn.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

General Motors announced modifications to the vehicle structure and battery coolant system in the Chevrolet Volt that would further protect the battery from the possibility of an electrical fire occurring days or weeks after a severe crash. We’ve also seen a lot of speculation regarding the Volt battery’s liquid cooling system.

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All Cars Electric

MAY 19, 2011

It’s only four months since General Motors announced that it was upping production of its 2011 Volt to meet the strong consumer demand for its first full-scale production plug-in vehicle, but now the automaker has said it will be undertaking a series of upgrades to its Detroit-Hamtramck factory to ensure that even more Volts hit the road.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 7, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The inevitable arrival of Tesla Model S hacking, General Motors invests money and jobs in 2016 Chevrolet Volt, production and we drive the 2014 Mazda 3 compact hatchback. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The biggest challenge in introducing new technologies is getting to the volume production that permits economies of scale for expensive components. General Motors, on the other hand, has now built roughly 100,000 Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2011

One year ago today, the very first 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car was delivered to a retail buyer, in Denville, New Jersey. The Volt was intended not only to be the first production plug-in electric car from General Motors--erasing memories of the ill-fated EV1--but to serve as a technology halo car for the just-bailed-out.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 28, 2009

GM to invest $700m in Volt rechargeable electric car. GM to invest $700m in Volt rechargeable electric car. General Motors will invest $336m in a Detroit-area assembly plant, bringing to $700m total investment in eight Michigan facilities to begin mass production of the rechargeable Chevrolet Volt electric car in late 2010.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 8, 2012

If the Chevy Volt is a sales failure, you'd never know it from the guy who runs General Motors. At a meeting of Volt owners in San Francisco yesterday, GM's CEO Dan Akerson said unequivocally that the company was standing behind its halo plug-in electric car. "We

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Earlier this year, General Motors announced that it would start a second shift at its Detroit-Hamtramck factory some time towards the end of 2011 to meet its production goals for the 2012 Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It will be the first fully electric addition to GMC’s lineup, driven by next-generation EV propulsion technology that enables off-road capability, on-road performance and an immersive driving experience. 800-volt DC public fast charging5 compatibility of up to 350 kilowatts. inch diagonal infotainment screen and 12.3-inch

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2021

General Motors announced the Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center, an all-new facility that will significantly expand the company's battery technology operations and accelerate development and commercialization of longer range, more affordable electric vehicle batteries. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 29, 2012

General Motors (GM) is to idle its Michigan assembly that makes its range-extended Volt model. The plant will cease production of the Volt for four weeks from mid-September as demand for the electric-petrol car remains soft. It is the second time this year that the plant has halted production of the model.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the oil-laden plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year into parts for the Chevy Volt. We reuse and recycle material by-products at our 76 landfill-free facilities every day.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

GM will build the Cadillac ELR, a luxury coupe featuring extended-range electric technology, at the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, General Motors North America President Mark Reuss said Tuesday. The ELR is the production version of Cadillac’s Converj, a concept vehicle revealed at the North American International Auto Show in 2009.

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