About two years after GM delivered the first Chevy Volt to a paying customer, head of product development Mary Barra (now GM’s first female CEO) announced the automaker’s intentions to put 500,000 electric and hybrid vehicles on U.S. roads by 2017. It was an ambitious goal, even in the earliest days of the EV revolution, […]
General Motors is oftentimes its own worst enemy, though the older I get the more I come to appreciate their devotion to technology, if not their boneheaded, bottom line-driven decisions. The Chevy Spark EV is a great example of a car more people would buy, if only they could, as sales are limited to just […]
After GM pulled back the curtain on the Chevy Bolt, its 200-mile electric car concept, one of the first questions a suit asked me was “What do you think of the name?” I shrugged if I’m being honest. It’s better than the meaningless alpha-numeric nomenclature plaguing many luxury car brands, but it doesn’t have the […]
Also published on Planetsave, GAS2, and CleanTechnica. Chris DeMorro and I jumped into our third Cleantech Talk podcast just a couple of hours ago. I think we really hit our stride with this one. It was a lot of fun, and felt like a really long tennis or ping pong rally this time… as I […]
I often include Ford in my grouping of top 5 companies most serious about bringing electric cars to market. It sits at a questionable #5 behind Tesla, Nissan, BMW, and GM simply because it offers its Energi models to a wider portion of the population than most other electric car manufacturers, and priced them competitively enough that it ends […]
Also published on CleanTechnica & Gas2. Chris DeMorro and I have just launched a new podcast series, “Cleantech Talk.” We’ll surely get into other topics down the road, but for this first one, it was all about electric vehicles. We discussed 4 big stories from the past week, which I’ll write a bit about in below, but if […]
It was clear almost immediately following the reveal of the Chevy Bolt electric vehicle that GM had every intention of putting it into production. GM then went on to announce its production plans for the Bolt, following up with a webpage for the EV concept that puts all the pertinent information at your fingertips. In […]
General Motors (GM) must have gotten a pretty stellar response to the Chevy Bolt concept electric car that it unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show last month (heck, the Bolt even got the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune to interview me). Quickly after testing the waters, GM has just announced that it is serious about producing the […]
The 2016 Chevy Volt & Chevy Bolt news has woken up conventional media a bit. As one sign of that, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune (a member of the editorial board, actually) recently reached out to me to ask me a bunch of questions about electric vehicles. Naturally, I had a lot to say. As […]
The much-anticipated 2017 Chevy Bolt will enter into production just 20 months from now, in October 2016, according to a pair of unnamed supplier sources. According to the sources, the +200-miles-per-charge electric vehicle (EV) will go into production at the “underused” GM production plant in Orion Township in Michigan. The sources also noted that the […]
Some of the biggest EV news of the year is the unveiling of the Chevy Bolt and the launch of Chevy Volt 2.0. We got out some leaked news about the Bolt a few days ago that was apparently spot on. But below are the key official details about the Bolt and the cool new Volt, […]
That’s the word on the street, at least. According to the Wall Street Journal (you know, the best source in the world for breaking electric vehicle news /s), General Motors (GM) will be bringing a CUV concept to the Detroit Auto Show next week to supplement Chevy Volt 2.0. However, if it is really an […]