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Chevy Volt: The Song

The Kraft company recently held a competition inviting the public to name its new Vegemite cream cheese spinoff. The name that won, and made it to shelves, was "iSnack 2.0." Really. It took one day of public cacophony to encourage Kraft to change the name to "Cheesybite," but we hear you can still find jars of iSnack 2.0 if you're inclined. Why do we bring this up? Because sometimes we wonder what insights marketers are using to make product roll-out decisions. And what's that got to do with the Chevy Volt? The Chevy Volt's new theme ... Read more →

GM confirms Chevrolet Volt to be introduced in California before nationwide rollout Noah Joseph

If environmentally-friendly transportation is your thing, there's no place like California. Not only is the state home base to Tesla – the first company to genuinely demonstrate that hugging ...

"Viridian Joule" picked as winner of Chevy Volt Paint Color Contest Jeremy Korzeniewski

The votes have been cast, the tallies tallied and the winner determined: Viridian Joule will be the official name of the silvery-green hue as seen on a slew of Chevrolet Volt marketing material ...

REPORT: Initial Chevy Volt launch will be in select U.S. markets only Jeremy Korzeniewski

Undoubtedly, the 2011 Volt is one of the most hotly anticipated new model launches in Chevrolet's long and storied history, and it will likely be seen as a halo model of sorts for General Motors ...

Quick Spin: 2011 Chevrolet Volt charges toward production Sam Abuelsamid

Three years ago this December we first walked into a Manhattan conference room for a background briefing on a new concept being developed by General Motors for the upcoming Detroit Auto Show. ...

Cars & Coffee: Chevy shocks the crowd, brings Volt 12 days ago on Autoblog

General Motors shocked the crowd at Cars & Coffee this weekend by bringing out the 2011 Chevy Volt. Representatives on hand said this is the same car that will be on display at the LA Auto Show next week. They added that this is a pre-production model with a lot of development miles on it. ...

Chevy Volt color contest finalists include EV-ergreen, environMINT and Viridian Joule [w/VIDEO] 24 days ago on Autoblog

As of this morning, Chevrolet is moving into the final stage of its Volt color naming contest. The company has picked three finalists from among the names submitted by 13,000 people over the last two weeks. Starting this morning, you can cast your vote for which of the finalists will win the ...

Caveat Emptor: Columbus, Ohio dealer taking deposits on Volt 24 days ago on Autoblog

Fans of the Chevrolet Volt have been waiting patiently nearly three years now for the first extended-range electric vehicle to debut. One Columbus, Ohio area Chevrolet dealer is looking to take advantage of this eagerness by posting an auction on eBay Motors for its allocation of Volts. Jack ...

Lutz: High-performance Chevy Volt SS a "possibility" 1 month ago on Autoblog

Electric cars are for those who would rather drive slow, boring commuters that don't consume fossil fuels and therefore don't spew pollutants from their tailpipes. Gas-powered cars – and especially those wearing time-honored badges like SS, R/T or GT – are for those who prefer ...

Posawatz: Volt range-extended mileage to be "better than any conventional car." But what about hybrids? 1 month ago on Autoblog

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, plenty of questions remain, such as How many miles per ...

GM invites Volt fans to name first color and win a test drive! 1 month ago on Autoblog

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, ...

GM investing $230M in Flint area facilities to support Chevrolet Cruze, Volt 1 month ago on Autoblog

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 ...

REPORT: Chevrolet to take larger role at GM, account for 70% of total volume 1 month ago on Autoblog

Forget about more cowbell, for GM it's all about more Chevy -- at least, that's the situation for Chevrolet's new VP Brent Dewar. So far this year the Bowtie has posted more than 60% of GM's North American volume, but Dewar wants that to get to 70%. "As Pontiac goes away, Saturn goes away," ...

REPORT: Chevy Volt will start at $32,000 after tax credit? 2 months ago on Autoblog

While we know a good bit of information about GM's upcoming range-extended electric automobile, one major question lurks high above the rest: how much with the Chevy Volt cost? Well, that's a tough nut to crack. There will be a sticker price plastered on the car's window when it finally goes on ...

Quick Ride: Chevrolet Volt IVER prototype (w/VIDEO) 3 months ago on Autoblog

While visiting General Motors' product technology showcase this week, we had the opportunity to take a tour through the pre-production operations area where the integration vehicle engineering release prototypes (IVER) Volts are coming together, and then later we went for a ride in one with ...

Production Chevy Orlando spotted in promo vid? [w/VIDEO] 4 months ago on Autoblog

We're not entirely certain, but it sure looks like it. General Motors recently released a YouTube vid explaining what makes a Chevrolet a Chevrolet that shows a series a of sweeping shots that catches bowtie specials like the Corvette Grand Sport and the 2010 Camaro. At around 1:05, the camera ...

GM shows off 120V and 240V chargers for 2011 Chevy Volt 4 months ago on Autoblog

As part of the massive media blitz being rolled out today by General Motors in preparation for the new 230-mpg Chevy Volt and some B20 biodiesel trucks (more on these later), we finally got to see the two chargers that will come with the Volt when it becomes available in November 2010. With ...

Nissan pokes fun at Volt, claims 367 mpg equivalent for Leaf EV 4 months ago on Autoblog

Not content to let General Motors grab all the shiny happy tree-huggy headlines today with its 230 mpg claim for the Chevy Volt in city operation, the gang manning the NissanEVs Twitter account needled GM's range-extended EV messiah, tweeting: Nissan Leaf = 367 mpg, no tailpipe, and no gas ...

How did GM arrive at 230 mpg for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt? 4 months ago on Autoblog

Neither General Motors nor the EPA are making declarative statements about how, exactly, the 2011 Chevy Volt will achieve it's much-touted 230 mpg rating that was announced today. GM's most clear statement (available in full after the break) says that some consumers "may be able to be in pure ...

GM announces... 2011 Chevrolet Volt will get 230 mpg city! 4 months ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/GM_Announces_2011_Chevrolet_Volt_Will_Get_230_MPG_City'; In case you missed it this morning, General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson made some big news just one month after the "new" GM emerged from bankruptcy protection. First of all, Henderson announced that ...

VIDEO: Before you weld a Chevrolet Volt, you have to stamp out the bodies 4 months ago on Autoblog

The other day, we pointed you toward a video produced by General Motors that is part of a series on the building of the pre-production Chevy Volt prototypes. That video showed the model's IVER (Integration Vehicle Engineering Release) bodies being assembled, welded and painted in the body shop ...

VIDEO: See how prototype Chevy Volt bodies are built 4 months ago on Autoblog

Right now the crew at General Motors' pre-production operations center at the Warren Technical Center is in the midst of building 75 Chevy Volt IVER prototypes. IVERs, or integration vehicle engineering release prototypes, are the last stage of prototypes prior to pilot builds. For these IVER ...

GM launches online Chevy Volt info hub, shows off prototype build process [w/VIDEO] 4 months ago on Autoblog

Facebook just wasn't enough, apparently. General Motors has unveiled a new social media site dedicated to the Chevrolet Volt. Called VoltAge, the site brings together all sorts of Volt-friendly, GM-approved social media aspects onto one page. You've got your reader forum, your GM blog posts and ...

Chevy Volt chief engineer takes drive in first pre-production prototype [w/VIDEO] 5 months ago on Autoblog

The technicians and engineers at General Motors' Pre-Production operations center at the Warren, MI Tech Center have been hard at work for the last several weeks finishing up the first of about 75 integration prototypes of the Chevy Volt. They worked so hard, in fact, that the first car was ...

Autoline Daily provides first look at production Chevrolet Volt in black [w/VIDEO] 6 months ago on Autoblog

By now, we've all seen plenty of images of the production 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Up until this point, though, all of the shots that General Motors have let out have been of the car in a happy shade of silver. Not any more, as our friend John McElroy from Autoline Daily managed to score the ...

REPORT: Energy Department predicting summer gas price high of just $2.30/gallon [w/POLL] 7 months ago on Autoblog

We've heard it a million times: What's good for General Motors is good for America. Well, if low gas prices are good for America (and that is a debatable point), then Charles Wilson's saying does not work the other way around. According to USA Today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration ...

U.S. Department of Energy funding for Chevy Volt on hold 8 months ago on Autoblog

Aside from the bridge loans supplied to GM by the federal government, GM had applied for $10.3 billion from the Energy Department. Of that amount, $2.6 billion was meant to be devoted to building the Chevy Volt and two derivatives of it, as well as a third hybrid model. May is when the Energy ...

GM asking Department of Energy for $2.6 billion to build hybrids? 8 months ago on Autoblog

General Motors released an updated business plan to Congress on Wednesday, and one of the main points of interest surrounds the automaker's request of an additional $2.6 billion for the production of the Chevrolet Volt and two additional variants based on the same Voltec powertrain ...

Spawn of Volt: More details on more variants 1 year ago on Autoblog

GM is not going to let the Volt or its E-Flex powertrain get lonely. The first Volt -- the one due in late 2010 -- hasn't been finished yet, yet is so popular that GM is publicly theorizing about how far it can spread the technology through the empire. Ideas include a smaller car with a smaller ...

Officially Official: GM reveals the 2011 Chevy Volt! 1 year ago on Autoblog

Everyone who has been waiting with bated breath for the past year and a half to see the production version of the Chevy Volt can now breathe a big sigh of relief. After some extremely unflattering press shots shots were accidentally released last week, people were extremely disappointed with ...

BREAKING: 2011 Chevy Volt revealed! 1 year ago on Autoblog

Though its first official public debut isn't scheduled until early next week, the 2011 Chevy Volt has been introduced to the internet early courtesy of the The Car Connection, which published these apparently official pictures of the revolutionary series hybrid today. In the past few weeks ...

Unofficial Volt Wait List surpasses 30,000 hand raisers 1 year ago on Autoblog

Shortly after the Volt Concept was shown, a Volt adherent started a website called GM-Volt.com to show General Motors that it was on to something. After the Volt was approved for production, the site added a feature to allow people to "raise their hands" to show interest in the Volt, much like what ...

Bob Lutz on Volt: "no reasonable doubt... this is going to work" 1 year ago on Autoblog

Bob Lutz has come out and said it again: "I would say there's almost no reasonable doubt in our minds anymore that this is going to work." And that isn't just that the Chevy Volt will work -- it's that it will work on time and as promised. In spite of the difficulties GM has had getting Volt ...

Says Rick Wagoner: Volt might come in 2010... or it might not 1 year ago on Autoblog

Bob Lutz has staked a fair amount of his and GM's reputation on the Volt. Even though he has said since the beginning that the Volt needs battery technology that isn't ready for the mass market yet, he also said that the Volt would go on sale by the end of 2010. Rick Wagoner, though, in a 50-minute ...

Autoblog Podcast #82 1 year ago on Autoblog

We tried to get it going for last week, but John had violence visited upon his mouth which reduced him to saying "Spibit?" We're back on the podcast horse this week for Autoblog Podcast #82, though. We start off proceedings with the teaser pic of the Chevy Volt, which then takes us to a ...






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