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First real Chevy Volt battery rolls off assembly line

Friday, January 8, 2010 - 10:13am

Behold the heart and soul of the upcoming Chevy Volt electric car, coming to the real world in mass quantities in about a year. The stuggling automaker rolled out the first "official" assembly-line-produced battery of GM's highly anticipated electro-car, unveiled...

Autocar test drives Top Gear's home-made electric car

DVICE Staff

Friday, November 27, 2009 - 1:03am

Good morning! Are you awakening from your post-Thanksgiving night celebrations, and staring blearily at the carnage atop your dining table and the like? Well, you might want to spare a thought for this poor sap from British publication Autocar. His...

Cadillac Converj electric car is for real, based on Chevy Volt

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 4:27am

It turns out that the Chevy Volt is not the only electric car GM is working on. Using the Volt's same Voltec electric drivetrain, GM also plans to roll out the Cadillac Converj, which will reportedly look much like the...

Chevy Volt to get 230 mpg? Well, not really

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 6:07am

There's all sorts of buzz going around on the internet today about the Chevy Volt and the 230 mpg rating it's getting from the government. But when you look at how that number was reached, you'll see that it's not...

GM: Volt to be sportier than Prius, Insight

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 1:14pm

It's probably no coincidence that the same day ailing GM has its bankruptcy proceedings heard in court, Andrew Farah, chief engineer of the Chevrolet Volt project touts his car's "sportiness" compared to two of its hybrid competitors, the Toyota Prius...

First Chevy Volt prototype rolls out

Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 9:51am

If you're like us, you're eagerly anticipating the delivery of the Chevy Volt electric car. That day just got a little more real when the first preproduction prototype rolled out of the General Motors Operations Center in Warren, Michigan. It's...

Can GreenGT's all-electric roadster win one of the world's oldest races?

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 4:23am

Swiss-based startup GreenGT has a car in the works called the Twenty-4 it hopes could compete in the demanding France's 24 hour Le Mans race in 2011. That's a rather lofty goal in itself, but it gets even crazier —...

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First real Chevy Volt battery rolls off assembly line

Autocar test drives Top Gear's home-made electric car

Cadillac Converj electric car is for real, based on Chevy Volt

Chevy Volt to get 230 mpg? Well, not really

GM: Volt to be sportier than Prius, Insight

First Chevy Volt prototype rolls out

Can GreenGT's all-electric roadster win one of the world's oldest races?

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