Chevy Volt 2010

Thank goodness someone can recognize a well-engineered car – even if it’s the trance-eating, free love Europeans (purely ironic, Europe is awesome). You have to think that with gas prices going up to astronomical levels, again, with car companies being given money by the federal government – eventually this alternative energy electric car conundrum will be split wide open. Hell, if I actually made decent money as a blogger, I’d buy an electric car in a heartbeat versus going around in a gas...Read Full Story

Government motors say the suspended production of the Chevy Volt is temporary, but the 1,300 layoffs are permanent. I wonder if those people being laid off will be part of the unemployment statistics. I wonder if the 1,300 people being laid off will bring the unemployment rate under 8%. We will have to wait and see.(The Hill) General Motors has temporarily suspended production of its Volt electric car, the company announced Friday. GM, which is based in Detroit, announced to employees at one...Read Full Story

Posted by best sport car on January 21st, 2011 Bob Lutz GM’s 72-year-old Vice Chairman sits on the cutting edge of new hybrid technology. It is in fact Mr. Lutz and his belief in hybrid technology that has led Chevrolet to create some interesting new hybrid models due out soon including the Silverado, Tahoe, Malibu and Equinox. Under Mr. Lutz’s guidance, Chevrolet even produced a fleet of transit buses powered by their Allison Electric Drive Transmission system for King County, Washington...Read Full Story

Posted by best sport car on January 21st, 2011 Internet business offers several advantages to newcomers. Since your business location is your website, you can run it from anywhere you can access the World Wide Web. You do not have to tie up capital with inventory, warehousing, store rent or personnel. The disadvantage is you still have competitors. Bigger Ecommerce companies have the resources to spot new ideas and adapt them for their purposes, cutting into your sales. Here is some...Read Full Story

I had the rare pleasure of driving a brand new Chevy Volt up the Eastern seaboard yesterday, a four hour trip from DC to New York in the driving rain of a dying nor’easter. Organized by beleaguered carmaker GM, the drive was an attempt to reach out to tech geeks and bloggers to drive what amounts to the most high-tech car I’ve ever driven. According to a GM spokesperson, the car’s programming alone is more complex than the code in a F16 fighter jet. How was the ride? Well, first let’s talk a...Read Full Story

Mfarhanonline Tech News The 2011 Detroit Auto Show is still open to the public, but when it was just for the press one car stood out, and that was the Chevy Volt. GM’s car seems to have been with us for an age, but it has only been on the market in the U.S. for little over a month. We thought we would take a look at 5 cool facts that you need to know about this award-winning vehicle. AOL News has been doing it’s homework and has managed to learn a few things that most of you would not have...Read Full Story

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Chevy Volt Even before the new Chevrolet Volt, started rolling out of dealerships in December 2010, Larry Edsall’s book Chevrolet Volt: Charging into the Future was rolling off the printing presses. Chevrolet Volt, the book, was officially licensed by General Motors which gave Edsall unprecedented access to the people who made the Volt happen from Bob Lutz to the designers, engineers and even the people who build the Volt. No single car in recent memory...Read Full Story

The Volt can go 25 to 50 miles on electricity alone, also subject to variables, then a 1.4-liter gasoline engine kicks in to provide juice for the ele.. CHEVY VOLT: rated 93 mpg on electricity w/o gas, 37 mpg on gas generator. 2011 chevy volt 1024×644 CHEVY VOLT: rated 93 mpg on electricity w/o gas. Powered by electricity without being tethered to electrical outlets. The Chevrolet Volt has gotten its EPA mpg ratings: The equivalent of 93 miles per gallon mpg-e in. Buick LaCrosse eAssist Gets...Read Full Story

It is impossible to say how much the insurance will be for the Chevy Volt because at the time of this writing, the Chevy Volt has not yet been released for sale. It is slated to be released in the middle of 2011, which is still a couple of months away. Enter your zip code for free online car insurance quotes now! There are a number of factors that go into determining how much car insurance rates are for any vehicle. You will need to look at those, and talk to a few companies to best determine...Read Full Story

The First Customers Should Get  Electric Cars Within Days Monday, December 13, trucks loaded with Chevy Volts started rolling away from the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant head for dealerships in California, Texas, Washington D.C. and New York. The Volt is the first-and-only electric car with an extended-range capability allowing owners to drive their electric cars up to 379 miles before having to recharge or refill the gas tank.  The gasoline engine is used to run the generator that charges...Read Full Story