SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PREMIER Mike Rann has called on Holden to build an electric version of the Cruze at its Elizabeth assembly plant.

Although he didn’t specify a desired timeframe, Rann said that such a move would strengthen the local car industry.
“Because the Cruze has the same architectural base as GM’s new Volt, it is technologically possible [...]

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GENERAL MOTORS HAS begun pumping out the first batch of pre-production Chevy Volts, cars which will be used for a wide range of testing, troubleshooting and safety certification over the coming months.

To date, the only Chevrolet Volts we’ve seen have been hand-built prototypes based on the Cruze and Chevy Malibu, which are, of course, not [...]

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The hard times at GM may appear to have no end in sight, but recent comments from GM’s global product chief, Tom Stephens, indicate that the storm clouds overhead haven’t changed the company’s plans for the Volt.

Talking to journalists at a University of Michigan event, Stephens was quoted as saying that ‘at this point in [...]

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The first version is still yet to go on sale, but engineers at General Motors are already hard at work developing the second and third generations of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid.

With the first Volt still over twelve months away, GM has decided to start work on successive generations of the car in an attempt [...]

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Whether these images are ‘as official’ as the first official image we showed you yesterday is tough to say – and something about the centre of the rear diffuser does look a little dodgy.

Nonetheless, these images look great. If this is the final styling of Opel’s version of the Chevy Volt, the German marque may [...]

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Holden took advantage of the spotlight during its presentation at the Melbourne International Motor Show, revealing the first images of the Volt as it is likely to appear when it hits Aussie roads.

Essentially a rebadged, right-hand-drive version of the now well-known Chevy Volt, the Holden Volt will offer the same 64 kilometre range as its [...]

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Opel first offered the world a glimpse of its version of the Chevrolet Volt back in late January, and now the first official image of the Opel Ampera is online.

Going by this one image, it looks as though the main difference between the two cars will be the unique Opel face.

Two deep, vertical gouges streak [...]

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Anyone paying attention to the news seeping from the set of the upcoming Transformers sequel will already know that Chevrolet’s Volt plug-in hybrid has scored a role in the film.

Until now, we’ve only had poor quality spy shots and eye-witness accounts to go on, but GM has thrown all of that out the window with [...]

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Washington DC and San Francisco have been selected by GM as the two cities it believes are ready for the arrival of the Chevrolet Volt. GM is to work closely with both cities to ensure a smooth rollout of its plug-in hybrid when it is finally released to market.

For cities not yet on the Volt bandwagon, GM [...]

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Opel has released the first teaser image of its Extended Range Electric Vehicle, the Ampera, due to debut at the Geneva Motor show in March. Because General Motors can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to re-badging cars across the different GM brands, the Ampera utilizes the basics of the Chevrolet Volt with which [...]

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Chevrolet’s long awaited Volt electric vehicle has until now, been without a confirmed battery supplier. LG Chem and A123 Systems have been supplying prototype battery packs to GM during the Volt’s development but which supplier would be granted the potentially lucrative contract, has until today, been up in the air.

GM CEO Rick Wagoner has now [...]

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While we’ve already seen much of the production-ready Chevy Volt, the official launch by GM fills in all the visual gaps, and many of the technical details, for the highly-anticipated hybrid.

The sharp styling is partly a result of the work of GM ‘aerodynamicists’ who toiled away in GM’s wind-tunnel to maximise the aerodynamic efficiency of the Volt, [...]

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