December 28, 2009 – 2:14 pm
GM to invest $700m in Volt rechargeable electric car
By Richard Kessler for Recharge News
“GM is spending $336m to upgrade the Hamtramck plant; $202m for a new plant in Flint, north of Detroit, that will build 1.4 litre engine-generators; $43m for a plant in Brownstown Township outside Detroit that will manufacture battery packs; $37m for a [...]
December 8, 2009 – 3:57 pm
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. 1 U.S. automaker said on Monday.
August 13, 2009 – 10:37 am
We went to Detroit recently to see Bob Lutz. In these turbulent times, we wanted to know how the Vice Chair of GM was getting along.
We found Bob smoking a cigar on his Segway. Which was definitely my favorite visual of the trip. Lutz lives in a spread that can best be described as [...]
Our Consulting Producer Chelsea Sexton got to test drive the GM Volt recently.
Here’s her verdict :
From the first Volt unveiling over two years ago, I’ve wanted to drive one. At some point last year, Tony Posawatz’s first words upon seeing me ceased to be “Hey, chels”, and became “I know, I know”. Given the [...]
November 26, 2008 – 11:55 pm
Sacramento’s News 10 reports on the electric cars of Vacaville, CA. In 2003 Vacaville, also known as Voltageville, was miles ahead of other cities with over 100 electric cars on the road in both GM EV1s and Toyota RAV4-EVs. The California Air Resources Board’s 1990 Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate would have required 10% of all [...]
November 23, 2008 – 9:35 pm
Check out this CNN segment from Nov 20th 2008. What next for GM, the Volt, and the director of ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’ …
November 8, 2008 – 6:05 pm
Saturday September 27th, 2008 : Immediately after the Santa Monica 2008 AltCarExpo, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” Director Chris Paine graciously hosted Plug In America’s very first fundraiser at his PV+EV residence in Culver City, CA .
The party was totally sold out: 250 guests and two superb electric vehicle rockstars – GM’s newly released preproduction [...]
By Stefano Paris
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Also tagged AC Propulsion, Alexandra Paul, Chelsea Sexton, chris paine, Dan Neil, eBox, EV Events, James Woolsey, Linda Nicholes, PIA Fundraiser, Production News, Tesla Roadster, Vectrix, Zero Motorcycles
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November 7, 2008 – 4:00 pm
Suffice to say, all of GM’s development programs including the Volt are threatened.
For all of GM’s industrial successes and environmental failures, many elements of the American economy including the advertising-dependent entertainment industry — rise and fall with its fortunes.
G.M. Says U.S. Cash Is Its Best Hope
By Bill Vlasic and Nick Bunkley for the NY Times.
The [...]
October 23, 2008 – 7:07 pm
Lots going on with batteries now, as John O’Dell’s piece below illustrates.
GM has been saying for a while now that they had picked their supplier for the LiIon battery in the Volt, but they weren’t prepared to announce who it was. MIT spinoff A123 was a personal favorite, also Germany’s Continental was in the running, [...]
October 5, 2008 – 1:30 am
Early wakeup calls in Detroit continued as our grand tour picked up speed.
We shoot at the Tech Center campus where engineers ran tests on Volt battery packs. To our surprise, some of the industrial battery testing equipment came from Aerovironment, the company who had built the SunRaycer and Impact EV prototypes back in the early [...]
October 4, 2008 – 1:35 am
General Motors invited me to Detroit to speak on a panel at its 100th anniversary along with a small group of other “outside voices”. Since GM’s Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz planned to unveil the Chevy Volt production prototype, we decided to take our film crew. We knew we were being pulled into GM’s PR [...]
