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.
Detroit-Hamtramck will be the final assembly location for the Volt, using [...]
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General Motors announced Monday that it will invest $336 million in the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to begin production of the Chevrolet Volt electric car in 2010.
GM said that brings its total Volt-related investments in Michigan to $700 million, covering eight facilities.
[...]By Doug Parks
Global Electric Vehicle Development Executive
Nearly three years ago at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, we revealed what will soon become the first mass-produced electric vehicle designed, developed and manufactured by a U.S. automaker on U.S. soil – the Chevrolet Volt. When the Volt was [...]
General Motors' Bob Lutz said the first Chevrolet Volts will go on sale in California beginning late next year, fulfilling GM's long-held promise that the Volt would be in production by November 2010.
Lutz, speaking to the Motor Press Guild at [...]
Floridian Dave Thomas won the Volt color-naming contest and generously let the two other finalists drive the Volt, too, with the drive captured on video by Chevrolet. [...] 
General Motors is taking a page from Japanese automakers like Nissan and Honda when it comes to the nationwide rollout of the electric Chevrolet Volt. The Volt will first be sold in California, with other markets to follow, GM confirmed on Wednesday at the 2009 Los Angeles [...] 
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2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image galleryAt the Los Angeles Auto Show, GM announced that the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle will first be available late next year in California, with other lead markets to be named later. Chevrolet is also partnering with three California utilities and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) as [...]
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We've known for some time that the 2011 Chevrolet Volt would go on sale in late 2010, but it turns out that's California only, at least initially. It seems GM is keen to take the fight right to the Prius, [...]
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Quick Spin: 2011 Chevrolet Volt charges toward production
2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery Three years ago this December we first walked into a Manhattan conference room for a background briefing on [...]
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2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image galleryLos Angeles-based fans of the Chevrolet Volt will be pleased to learn the highly anticipated extended-range electric vehicle is in Tinseltown for a few spins around the City of Angels and a whirlwind tour of activities leading up to the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show. [...]
Spanning the range from mean to green, today's news at High Gear Media has a bit of something for everyone. Over at GreenCarReports, we have an interview with Tony Posawatz, vehicle line director of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. He answers five pointed questions and gives us an idea [...] 
The involuntary eye-rolling began mid-sentence as we read GM's first press release claiming that the fuel economy of the 2011 Chevy Volt would be about 230 mpg.
The method by which this number was obtained was not clearly stated, and GM made vague references to [...]
Update: Our first drive is live. First Drive: 2011 Chevrolet Volt
Today we took a drive in a late prototype for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. This was our first opportunity to experience GM's series hybrid in both all-electric and charge-sustaining mode (i.e., when the [...]
