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GM Fires Up Its Chevrolet Volt Battery Factory
JAN 7, 2010Three years to the day after unveiling the Chevrolet Volt concept car, General Motors has started building the battery packs that will power the range-extended electric car — which may cost less than expected.
The first of the thousands of 16-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery packs the General will need for the cars rolled off the assembly line today. The packs, which use more than 200 cells apiece, are being assembled Detroit, making GM the first automaker to make lithium-ion packs in the United States.
“This is an important milestone for GM and a critical step in bringing the Chevrolet Volt to market
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NEAT VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOsCpuWcV0g
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http://gm-volt.com/September 6th, 2009
Study Shows Range Anxiety is Significant
Research suggests that most of the electrified cars that will be entering the North America market over the next several years will be pure battery electrics as opposed to plug-in hybrids like the Volt.According to California based Aerovironment 60% of the 30 electric models known to be in the pipeline globally for 2012 will be [...]
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http://gm-volt.com/2009/08/27/getting-an-early-chevy-volt-in-2010-wont-be-easy/http://gm-volt.com/2009/09/03/guest-post-gm-advanced-technology-product-plan-update/
Getting an Early Chevy Volt in 2010 Won’t be EasyAugust 27th, 2009
GM and LG Chem Get Battery and Electric Car Grants: 500 Chevy Volts to Early Consumer Test Fleet
Chevy Volt Exact Launch Date Will be Mid-November 2010, Tens of Thousands in 2011
The Chevy Volt Will First be Released as a Captured Test Fleet to GM Employees
Chevy Volt Rollout and Captured Test Fleet Plans
Production Chevy Volt in late 2009?
Senate Hearing on Advanced Technology Vehicles
Guest Post From GM’s Frank Weber on Long Term Cost Advantage of EREVs Over BEVs
Japanese Automaker Nissan Requests US Government Advanced Vehicle Technology Loans
Guest Post: IVer Production Brings Design Changes, But Why?
Project Better Place CEO Calls the Volt a Niche Product
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10309170-54.htmlAugust 14, 2009
Getting a charge from the Chevy Volt
MILFORD, Mich.--It was brief, but my ride in a Chevy Volt was decidedly fun, even exciting.
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Questions Surround Chevy Volt Fuel Economy ClaimChevy Volt will earn an EPA city mileage rating of 230 mpg. It's an astounding claim - one that would make the Volt more than four times as efficient as the Toyota Prius-----------
To illustrate this point, Nissan quickly followed GM's announcement with its own, claiming the upcoming 2010 Nissan Leaf electric car will earn a 367 mpg EPA rating.
The rules, it seems, can generate a miles-per-gallon rating for a car that doesn't even use gasoline
The Volt is one of several so-called Extended-Range Electric Vehicles, or EREVs, in development. An EREV functions as an electric car until its batteries are depleted to a certain level; then it starts a small gasoline engine. That engine, however, doesn't drive the wheels - it merely acts as a generator to rech
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10307239-54.html
August 11, 2009
Chevy Volt to pull 230 mpg in city---
bankruptcy and restructuring that has left it 60 percent owned by the U.S. Treasury Department and 11 percent owned by Canada---
Henderson said that GM is confident that the combined highway and city mileage for the Chevy Volt, due to go on sale in late 2010, will be in the triple digits. Expressed in electrical terms, the performance will be 25 kilowatt-hours for 100 miles.
The cost of fueling a Volt will be significantly less than gassing up at the pump, Henderson said. In Detroit, where off-peak electricity rates are 5 cents a kilowatt hours, it will cost about 40 cents to recharge batteries overn
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http://adage.com/article?article_id=138244
The Story Behind Chevy Volt's $40,000 Sticker
GM's Bob Lutz On the Challenge of Bringing
New Technology to Mainstream Brand
August 03, 2009 How Bob Lutz Plans to Recapture America's Attention
"I was getting so pissed off reading about how the wonderful, far-sighted Toyota is the only one who understands technology," the storied 77-year-old executive recalled in an interview last month with Automotive News.
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THIS IS THE NEW VOLT SITE !?
http://www.chevroletvoltage.com/
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http://gm-volt.com/2008/09/27/how-charging-of-the-battery-works-in-the-chevy-volt/
How Charging of the Battery Works in the Chevy Volt
September 27th, 2008
NEW FACT: Chevy Volt Generator Starts When Battery Power Hits 50%, Stops Again at 80%
How the Chevy Volt Operates Past the Customer Depletion Point
Latest Chevy Volt Battery Pack and Generator Details and Clarifications
The Chevy Volt’s All Electric Range (AER) Will be 40 Miles Both at Beginning and End of Life
Q&A With Lithium Battery Charging Breakthrough Inventor Byoungwoo Kang, and What Does This Mean for Electric Cars?
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http://gm-volt.com/2009/07/26/chevy-volt-battery-has-robust-cell-monitoring-and-safety-systems/Chevy Volt Battery Has Robust Cell Monitoring and Safety Systems
July 26th, 2009
“The reliability of the Chevy Volt and its battery are essential to the success of this technology,” he said. “Our battery design includes multiple computers that run hundreds of tests to monitor the cells and the overall battery to confirm everything is working correctly.”----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://gm-volt.com/
GM VP’s Chevy Volt Update
July 23rd, 2009
our last post we had a live chat with Jon Lauckner GM’s VP of global program management, who along with Bob Lutz is co-creator of the Chevy Volt.
He took some significant questions from readers here and some other sites.
Price GM has never officially told us what the Volt will cost, [...]
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GM VOLT BATTERY PACK --- type this in, wow!
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=GM%20VOLT%20BATTERY%20PACK&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
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http://gm-volt.com/2009/07/24/chevy-volt-will-continue-to-operate-even-after-battery-drops-below-50-capacity/
http://gm-volt.com/Chevy Volt Will Continue to Operate Even after Battery Drops Below 50% Capacity
July 24th, 2009 Battery, Engineering
Lithium-ion batteries degrade over time. There’s no getting around this fact. GM is going out of its way to pamper the Volt’s pack so as to guarantee up to 40 miles of pure electric range even at 10 years or 150,000 miles of driving. But what happens beyond that?
Most experts believe the Volt’s battery will have anywhere from 50% to 75% of its original capacity after 10 years. Since 8kwh of energy are required to deliver 40 miles of driving,
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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Ontarians+built+cars/1805587/story.html
Why pay Ontarians to buy U.S.-built cars?
McGuinty's plan to give Volt buyers $10,000 each is electrifyingly dumb----By Randall Denley, The Ottawa CitizenJuly 19, 2009
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http://www.pluginamerica.org/
Plug In America Challenges Obama Auto Task Force Conclusion on GM Volt
In response to an Obama Administration auto task force report, Plug In America has proposed a plan to make GMÂ’s Chevy Volt and other plug-in cars more affordable, noting that most advanced new technologies are initially more costly.
Read the press release.
This action has been picked up by
Green Car Congress
Yahoo
Treehugger
ECNMag
Canadian Driver
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google image -- CHEVY VOLT ENGINE
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GM VOLT launching articles
http://www.popsci.com/volt
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GM, Goodyear and Bose Collaborate to Boost Chevrolet Volt’s Efficiency
16 February 2009 Auto News • Chevrolet • Technology
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http://www.gmreinvention.com/index.php/site/progress_reports/gm_opens_largest_most_advanced_automotive_battery_lab_in_the_u.s/
GM Opens Largest,
Most Advanced Automotive Battery Lab In The U.S. 06/08/09
The lab became fully functional in May, equipped with 160 test channels and 42 thermal chambers duplicating extreme real-world driving patterns, hot and cold temperatures and calendar life. The lab’s maximum power capacity is 6 megawatts, or enough electricity to provide power to approximately 1,400 homes.
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http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/26/chevy-volts-first-pre-production-model-now-on-the-road-in-test/
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Chevy Volt's first pre-production model now on the road, in testing
by Ross Miller, posted Jun 26th 2009 at 12:38AM
And with that, the first bona fide pre-production Chevy Volt -- its own parts and all -- has hit the pavement. General Motor's storied EV will be taken through the ropes to see what needs to be tweaked / modified before it finally goes into full production, which is expected to be at a rate of about ten a week as of mid-July -- and if you happen to live near Warren, Michigan, you might just spot one of these early models out on the road. Hard to believe Volt's defied more than a few odds, but so far, it looks promising. Good on ya, GM.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://revengeoftheelectriccar.com/Chelsea test drives the VOLT - May 27, 09
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How the Chevy Volt Operates Past the Customer Depletion Point
Chevy Volt Mule in Generator Mode Already ‘Prius Quiet’
Latest Chevy Volt Battery Pack and Generator Details and Clarifications
Chevy Volt Has the Feel of a Sports Car, and Engine RPMs Follow Accelerator
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http://gm-volt.com/2008/08/26/the-chevy-volt-generator-will-run-at-one-of-several-fixed-rpms/
The Chevy Volt Generator Will Run at One of Several Fixed RPMs
August 26th, 2008 Posted in: Engineering, Generator
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CONCEPT ------------------ >>>>
Cobasys Crisis has GM Buying Batteries from Toyota
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008
( note; SEE CHEVRON as partner)
http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?p=355
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http://movementbureau.blogs.com/projects/2007/01/the_chevrolet_v.html
January 09, 2007 in Analysis, Auto >
Battery, Climate
August 27th, 2008 Posted in
Lutz: Production Volt Has a CD Between .27 and .28 and Battery Extreme Cold Performance is
How the Chevy Volt Operates Past the Customer Depletion Point
How Charging of the Battery Works in the Chevy Volt
NEW FACT: Chevy Volt Generator Starts When Battery Power Hits 50%, Stops Again at 80%
Will the Chevy Volt Have a “Limp Home” Mode?
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