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GM: Volt won't become a brand name

The Chevrolet Volt isn't scheduled to hit the market for another whole year, but there's so much anticipation for the vehicle that some are already asking if The General will try to make a brand out of the Volt name. The answer, according to Brent Dewar, Chevy's chief of global operations, is no: Our thought is to take the Volt technology to other products... The Volt was the original vehicle that we started, but I wouldn't see that as a brand marketing direction for us. While other models in GM's lineup are likely to get their own ... Read more →

LA Auto Show Design Challenge entrants reveal Youthmobile 2030 designs Jeremy Korzeniewski

This year's iteration of the annual Design Challenge at the LA Auto Show asks the question: How will a new generation of drivers age 16-23 – raised with cell phones, web cams and online ...

Live webchat with Frank Weber and Doug Parks today at 4pm Sam Abuelsamid

Frank Weber, who has served as the vehicle line engineer for the Chevrolet Volt program for the past two and an half years, is packing up his wife and kids and moving back to Germany next month. ...

GM awarded DOE money to research Shape Memory Alloy heat engines Chris Shunk

General Motors has been awarded $2.7 million by the Department of Energy to create a working prototype engine using Shape Memory Alloys (SMA). The idea is for the prototype to use SMA tech to ...

Editorial: Henderson's fuel cell 10X cost comments are out of context Sam Abuelsamid

The other day we reported on an interview with General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson published in the Washington Post. While most of the discussion focused on the bailout and bankruptcy, from the ...

Opel introduces updated Corsa ecoFLEX, now at 98 g/km CO2 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

Opel has just introduced an updated version of its high-mileage, low-CO2 sub-compact Corsa. The refreshed Corsa ecoFLEX now gets 20 hp more from its 1.3-liter CDTi diesel engine than before, bringing its total to 95 hp along with 140 pound-feet of torque. Despite that boosted output, CO2 ...

Chevy Volt leader Frank Weber leaving for Opel, reaffirms Volt remains on track 7 days ago on Autoblog Green

One of the main men working to get the Chevy Volt out the door on time, Frank Weber, has announced he will leave General Motors on December 1 for a senior leadership post at Opel. This is the first high-ranking member of the Volt team to leave and told Bloomberg that GM remains strongly ...

GM CEO: electric cars require teamwork; hydrogen cars 10x more expensive than Volt 7 days ago on Autoblog Green

New GM CEO Fritz Henderson has some good words for his competitors. Surprised? It's all in an effort to make sure that plug-in vehicles get the help they need to become cost competitive. Henderson spoke with the Washington Post and said that costs are the big problem holding back electric cars. ...

Two-mode hybrid joint development disbanded; Ram hybrid coming in 2010 11 days ago on Autoblog Green

The big joint development program formed several years ago between General Motors, Daimler, Chrysler and BMW to develop the two-mode hybrid system for light duty vehicles is over. With all four automakers now having launched or about to introduce versions of the hybrid system, the joint program is ...

Posawatz: Volt range-extended mileage to be "better than any conventional car." But what about hybrids? 14 days ago on Autoblog Green

So, plenty of time has passed since General Motors first made the announcement that its Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle would score 230 miles per gallon on the yet-to-be-completed EPA testing procedure for such vehicles. Still, lots of questions remain, such as How many miles per ...

GM invites Volt fans to name first color and win a test drive! 16 days ago on Autoblog Green

Take a close look at the Chevy Volt in the photo above. We've seen it a number of times already but we've never said anything about the color. While it's predominantly silver, it does have a green (or more specifically emerald) tint in it. According to General Motors spokesman David Darovitz, this ...

PEV 2009: GM's Lauckner wishes for bigger incentives to get drivers out of gas-powered vehicles 17 days ago on Autoblog Green

At this point, it's no secret that the Chevy Volt and other plug-in vehicles are not going to come cheap. The least-pricey full-speed electric vehicle may very well be the Nissan Leaf, which after incentives might drop into the $27-28,000 range before the extra cost of leasing the battery. While the ...

AM General to build CNG-powered VPG MV-1 people-mover at Hummer H2 factory 17 days ago on Autoblog Green

Remember the Standard Taxi from the Vehicle Production Group? It's now called the MV-1, and production is slated to begin next year at the AM General plant in Mishawaka, Indiana. That's the same assembly location where the Hummer H2 is built, which makes sense since the MV-1 is based on the same ...

GM's OnStar EV Lab opens its doors, loves the Chevy Volt 17 days ago on Autoblog Green

One of the features that GM is promoting with the Chevy Volt, due late next year, is a completely new level of connectivity for the plug-in hybrid. Well, completely new isn't quite right. The Volt will certainly communicate with the grid and with GM in new ways, but the underlying OnStar ...

GM: Soon, Detroit will earn its nickname as the Motor City 18 days ago on Autoblog Green

What's in a name, anyway? Detroit has been known as the Motor City for longer than this blogger has been alive, but is that moniker actually a misnomer? Well, that depends... are you the type that believes motors are driven by electricity and engines by something else? How does one explain ...

LG Chem to Build $300-Million Advanced EV Battery Plant in Michigan 18 days ago on Autoblog Green

A new report is indicating that LG Chem is moving forward with plans to be build a $300 million advanced battery plant in southwest Michigan in the near future. The plant will be used to build lithium ion cells for automotive applications. Although LG Chem has yet to publicly announce anything, ...

Reader spots Chevy Volt prototype parked in a driveway 19 days ago on Autoblog Green

One of our ever-alert readers has been out walking the neighborhood armed with a camera this weekend when he spotted one of the most anticipated cars of the next few years. Sitting in a neighbor's driveway was a Chevy Volt IVER prototype. We know GM has been out running the Volts on public roads ...

Coskata's new Lighthouse cellulosic ethanol plant, in depth 21 days ago on Autoblog Green

Coskata's newly-opened semi-commercial flex ethanol facility in Madison, Pennsylvania is as small as it can possibly be. Co-located at a Westinghouse facility that also in some fashion uses nuclear energy, the Lighthouse project, as it's called, is running 24/7 to turn wood chips into ethanol. ...

Webchat with Tony Posawatz and Felix Kramer, 3:30pm EST today 22 days ago on Autoblog Green

Readers of this site are probably quite familiar with the names of Felix Kramer and Tony Posawatz. Kramer is the founder of the California Cars Institute (CalCars) and major proponent of plug-in vehicles. Posawatz is the vehicle line director for the Chevrolet Volt and has been part of the team ...

Catching up with Chevrolet's 1,200 mile pre-production Volt fleet drive 22 days ago on Autoblog Green

Yesterday, we had an opportunity to chat with Chevrolet Volt chief engineer Andrew Farah as he rode through the hills of West Virginia during a development drive. On Tuesday, a fleet of eight pre-production (a.k.a. IVER) Volts set out from the company's Milford Proving Ground in Michigan on a ...

REPORT: Vauxhall unsure whether Ampera will be built in UK 23 days ago on Autoblog Green

Just the other day, reports from the British motoring press indicated that the Vauxhall Ampera wouldn't be built in the UK as initially planned. Instead, the extended-range electric vehicle would reportedly be shipped over from America where the Ampera would presumably be built alongside the ...

Coskata opens doors to first semi-commercial flex ethanol facility 23 days ago on Autoblog Green

Coskata caught our attention back in January 2008 with the announcement that GM would take an equity stake in the cellulosic ethanol producer in an effort to bring the biofuel to market at a cost of just $1 a gallon. Since then, things haven't gone quite as smoothly as Coskata executives might ...

Last pre-production Volt comes off the assembly line 24 days ago on Autoblog Green

The saga of the Chevrolet Volt's run from concept to production reality has taken yet another step as the 80th and final pre-production car has just rolled down GM's assembly line in Warren, Michigan. Just like all the other Volt engineering mules built up to this point, this car is headed for a ...

REPORT: Vauxhall Ampera production gets snubbed in the UK 24 days ago on Autoblog Green

Where, exactly, the Vauxhall Ampera – the British version of the Chevy Volt – will be built is up in the air now that Magna, Vauxhall's new owner, has decided that the plug-in hybrid will not be built at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port factory. Prime Minister Gordon Brown had reportedly ...

GM investing $230M in Flint area facilities to support Chevrolet Cruze, Volt 24 days ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors announced today that it will spend $230 million on four facilities in the Flint, Michigan area that will support the production of the new Chevy Cruze compact and the Volt extended-range EV. The biggest chunk of the money ($202 million) is being spent on the Flint South Engine ...

GM sells HUMMER to Tengzhong for $150M, what happens to the vitriol? 29 days ago on Autoblog Green

Tengzhong's plan to make a green Hummer can now officially move forward. GM and the China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery company announced today that a deal to sell off the brand is complete. For $150 million, Tengzhong will take an 80 percent stake, a private investor will get ...

Chevy Volt heads to Pikes Peak to practice mountain climbing 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

One of the main concerns that many people have about the Chevy Volt is how well it will perform when running in charge sustaining mode with the engine-generator cranking away. While we haven't yet had an opportunity to try out any of the Volts or Cruze mules operating in this fashion, the ...

REPORT: GM sees more demand than supply with the Chevy Volt in the beginning 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors has already warned us that the Chevrolet Volt will be in short supply at launch. But that isn't stopping Bob Lutz, GM's vice chairman in charge of marketing, from going out and talking about how popular the car – due next year – already is. Lutz told Automotive News ...

AltCar 2009: Touring the show with the Governator 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

During the opening day of the 2009 AltCar Expo & Conference here in Santa Monica, Governor Schwarzenegger stopped by for a tour of the green vehicles on display. He learned about the Volt from Dave Barthmuss (above), sat down in a Tango and the Wheego Whip, learned about the MINI E and ...

GM's Hybrid/EV engineering director Bob Kruse resigns 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Bob Kruse is going freelance. Kruse has been executive director of global vehicle engineering for hybrids, electric vehicles and batteries at General Motors since early 2008. He has overseen the teams led by Denise Gray, Larry Nitz and Micky Bly that are developing hybrid and electric vehicles for ...

EcoCAR, Year Two starts in Boston; student engineers cleaning up the Saturn Vue 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

GM may have discarded the Saturn brand in the company's bankruptcy, but there are still at least 150 young engineers working hard to turn a Saturn Vue into the most efficient vehicle possible. The engineers are all students from 17 universities who are participating in the EcoCAR challenge, the ...

VIDEO: Jay Leno explains his biodiesel-powered EcoJet, races a private plane 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

In a garage full of ultra rare, highly desirable cars and trucks, Jay Leno's EcoJet still manages to stand out as one of the coolest. Part of the vehicle's claim to fame comes from its ability to run on biodiesel fuel, putting out an impressive 750 horsepower and 700 ft-lb of torque at 48,000 ...

GM shows off fifth-generation fuel cell stack, hopes to commercialize unit by 2015 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

While improvements to the tried-and-true internal combustion engine continue to come in small, incremental bits year after year, hydrogen fuel cell technology is progressing in leaps and bounds. Evidence of such can be seen in the latest version of General Motors' hydrogen fuel cell system. ...

GM India and Reva announce electric vehicle partnership 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

2009 Reva NXG - Click above for high-res image gallery GM India and Reva have announced a partnership to develop an affordable electric car for the Indian market. Both companies have started feasibility studies that would use GM small car platforms to host co-developed drivetrains and control ...

Elektromotive and GM team up to lobby UK MPs to support EVs 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

In order for companies getting into the electric vehicle business to have a chance to be financially viable, they are going to need help from governments. That means incentives to help offset the vastly higher initial cost of such vehicles as well as a means to charge them. General Motors and ...

Avant Concept: Buick's new look at the small premium market [w/VIDEO] 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Need further proof that the premium car market is looking to downsize? General Motors' latest entry on its recently-launched Lab website is the Buick Avant, which the automaker developed to study the future of scaled down models for its upper-level brands. Innovative ideas abound with the ...

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