It’s about time that Lotus decided to cash in on the EV market.  So far their cars are the basis for the Tesla Roadster, the Dodge Circuit, and a Mercedes concept.  Now it seems that instead of selling just the chassis they might try to sneak an engine in with it. The engine is a [...]

Electric cars don’t use gas to go.  This results in a zero emission vehicle that saves us harmful pollution, but these cars still need to plugin to the grid to recharge and go.  And since almost half of our electricity comes from burning coal, and we’ll be using more electricity to power our homes and [...]

General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it would use an existing Michigan plant to build engines for its key all-electric Chevy Volt and its new Cruze small car, slashing capital investment costs by $120 million. GM, which last week raised its request for U.S. government aid to support a turnaround, said it would invest about [...]

We reported earlier that GM is cancelling the construction of the Flint, Michigan plant that was to build the gas engine for the Chevy Volt and the Cruze.  GM already makes a four cylinder engine in Europe, so instead of investing new resources here in the US they’ll just be importing the engine that’s made [...]

The engine plant in Flint, Michigan that GM was going to build to make the inline 4 cylinder engine that would power the Volt and the Cruze was put on hold.  Now we are seeing reports that the plant altogether will be scrapped. The worsening economy is causing the car market to shrink, with fewer [...]

GM announced on thursday that it was going to build an I4 engine at a new plant in Flint Michigan.  The I4 is one of the most important engines in GMs history, it’ll be powering the Chevy Volt and The Chevy Cruze.  Two vehicles that GM is relying upon to help it’s sales and image. [...]

GM announced earlier today that it is going to invest $370 million to build a new engine plant in Flint Michigan.  The plant will build engines for the new Chevy Cruze and the Chevy Volt. The plant will produce a 4 cylinder engine starting in 2010.  The investment in Flint is one of several that [...]