The Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt are both going to debut at around the same time on the sales floor. So which one should you choose (if you can find one available)? Lets start out by pointing out the differences. The Leaf is an entirely electric car with a stated range of 100 miles [...]

Most of us that follow the Volt have expected the retail price of the Volt to come in between forty and fifty thousand dollars (with most of the estimates being in the mid forties). Well GM announced the price of the Volt and I’m surprised (and delighted) to say it has come in at $41,000 [...]

General Motors Co. will build a pure-electric vehicle by expanding the Chevrolet Volt’s battery pack and removing its internal combustion engine, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said Monday. It’s the next step for the Volt, a car the company says can run 40 miles on a charge from a standard home power outlet. After the battery [...]

Leveraging its early-mover advantage in the domestic electric car space, American automaker General Motors (GM) will look to sell at least 4,000 units annually of its ‘green’ vehicle, set to hit the Indian roads next year. The automobile giant had signed an agreement with Bangalore-based Reva Electric Car Company last month to develop an electric [...]

Bob Kruse, who recently led a critical Chevrolet Volt team and devised the automaker’s long-term electric vehicle strategy, has resigned months before the vehicle’s debut, The Detroit News has learned. Kruse’s resignation, effective end of September, comes at a crucial time for General Motors Co., which is banking on the Volt to change public perceptions [...]

We are getting a lot (A LOT) of news about new battery powered hybrids of some sort or another that will either be 100% battery or some kind of combination of battery and gas power.  GM has shown us that they are commited to that market with the new Chevy Volt.  GM, however, isn’t putting [...]

General Motors India is currently discussing with Reva Electric Car Company, a Bangalore based company for a technical collaboration and a JV, executives close to the development said. GM India will source EV technology from Reva to roll our electric variants of its Chevrolet Spark small car in India and select overseas markets. “We have [...]

GM gets a lot of media attention for the Volt. But the Volt isn’t the only green car GM is making in the near term. The Chevy Cruze, a small car that will be built in the same plant as the cobolt, is a 5 seater that GM says will pass the 40 MPG mark. [...]

Not exactly explained by GM, but the folks over at hybridcars.com have come up with some ideas as to how GM came up with that number. Here are the first 3: More Than Infinity “Under the rational that GM says the EPA applied to the Volt, an ell-electric car such as the upcoming Nissan Leaf [...]

General Motors Co unveiled plans to launch a plug-in SUV for its Buick brand in 2011, its latest move away from gas-guzzling vehicles in response to higher fuel-economy standards. The new five-passenger Buick crossover is expected to be the first commercially available plug-in hybrid sport-utility vehicle by a major automaker, and would follow GM’s heavily [...]