Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Safety, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric Regular readers probably know the story of the Chevrolet Volt NHTSA post-crash fire by heart, but here are the important details as a refresher: The original car that triggered the investigation was crash tested by NHTSA in May. Three weeks later, in early June, the same car [...]
Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric The Chevy Volt may be able to travel about 40 miles without emitting a gram of CO2, but the car isn’t clean enough to qualify for High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane access in California. Make that wasn’t clean enough. Today, GM announced that California dealers are now taking [...]
Filed under: Sedan, Safety, Chevrolet, GM, Electric As a tipster put it: “Crap.” Even though there is plenty of evidence that the Chevy Volt is a safe car (one just protected its occupants in a recent crash with a bus), there are now new and seemingly legitimate worries about the safety of the 16-kWh battery [...]
Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax – Click above to watch video after the jump If there’s one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it’s that right-wing political pundits really, really don’t like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straight out of [...]
2011 Chevrolet Volt – Click above for high-res image gallery The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has earned “good” marks in crash tests before, and new tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s New Car Assessment Program prove that the earlier results were not a fluke. The Volt scored a five-star overall safety rating, which is [...]
