Chevrolet Volt
Review: 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In
Nearly a decade and a half after its 1997 launch in Japan, the Toyota Prius is the undisputed king of hybrid vehicles. If someone shows you the silhouette of a Prius, you likely...
Will GM Again Kill the Electric Car?
There is more than a little chatter over the past week or two in the autoblogosphere about the Chevy Volt. Normally, in these media frenzied times, that would be good news for...
Review: 2011 Chevrolet Volt
Back in the sixties - a decade which, scary enough, began more than a half century ago - the creators of the cartoon The Jetsons imagined a future world in which robots served...
Detroit 2011: Kudos and Kicks
Press days are long since over, the stories have been filed, and members of the public have seen the 2011 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. So just what did we...
First Drive: 2011 Mitsubishi i-MiEV (JDM Spec)
By Chris Haak The conventional wisdom is that green cars such as hybrids and EVs have to look like something a little different from the standard three-box sedan if they hope to...
GM, Chrysler Each Set to Add 1,000 Engineering Jobs
GM and Chrysler - yes, the same two companies that shed tens of thousands of white-collar and production employees over the past few years as both firms stumbled into bankruptcy...
Volt Rated at 93 MPGe, Leaf at 99 MPGe
By Chris Haak This past week, the EPA released the long-awaited official mileage estimates for the two newest kids on the block, the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt. Because...
2011 Chevrolet Volt is Motor Trend’s Car of the Year
By Chris Haak The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has been christened the 2011 Motor Trend Car of the Year. The award comes as no surprise to many, considering the moonshot that the effort...
GE Plans to Buy 25,000 Electric Vehicles
By Chris Haak Giant industrial conglomerate General Electric has announced plans to purchase 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 for its fleet. These purchases represent fully...
Who Killed the Electric Car? Economics.
Chris Haak In spite of the relentless hype that the electrification of the automobile has generated over the past few years, culminating in the nearly-simultaneous launches of...
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