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The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle manufactured by General Motors, and also sold as the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera in Europe, and marketed as the Holden Volt in Australia.
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It's the teenage version of the American Dream: getting your driver's license.
But if you don't read the fine print on the rules and regulations, the big day could turn into a long delay, as one New Jersey girl we spoke to recently found out.Her mistake was having a successful father who drives a Volvo S80 sedan, which the N.J. DMV says isn't approved for the road test. Not because it isn't intrinsically safe -- the car is constructed of high-strength steel, has more airbags than air and can autonomously brake if it detects an obstacle ahead -- but because it was lacking one piece of very old-fashioned technology: a handbrake.N.J. is among several states that require road tests to take place in a car with a handbrake lever, so the official sitting in the passenger seat can intervene to stop the car if necessary. Unfortunately for our would-be new driver, the S80 is one of a growing number of cars that uses an electronic parking brake that is activated by a switch on the center console a...Republicans sharply questioned the integrity and honesty of the federal auto safety agency Wednesday after it waited nearly six months to notify the public about Che...
The government ended its safety investigation into the Chevrolet Volt on Friday after concluding that the Volt and other electric cars don't pose a greater fire risk...
General Motors will suspend Chevrolet Volt production from March 19th to April 23rd in order to bring supply of the plug-in hybrid car in line with demand, according...
The head of General Motors Co. says the company properly handled a problem with battery fires in Chevrolet Volt electric cars last year.In written testimony for a co...
The chairman and CEO of General Motors Co. is defending the company over battery fires in Chevrolet Volt electric cars last year.In written testimony for a congressi...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is refuting accusations made by a former administrator that the agency may have dragged its feet in order to bolst...
The liquid solution that cools the Chevrolet Volt's batteries is the likely cause of fires that broke out inside the electric car after government crash tests, a per...
The Chevrolet Volt ended 2011 on a high note, charting its best month of sales to date.Chevy moved 1,529 of the plug-in hybrids in December, despite the specter of a...
Despite the NHTSA inquiry into battery-pack fires following severe crash tests of the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, the car's 5,000 or so owners to dat...
Chevrolet has announced a fix for the plug-in hybrid Volt to address concerns that it could catch fire in the wake of a serious accident.The issue was discovered las...
The liquid solution that cools the Chevrolet Volt's batteries is the likely cause of fires that broke out inside the electric car after government crash tests, a per...
Sales of the $39,995 Chevrolet Volt increased 240 percent in September, from 302 units in August to 723. That brings the grand total of Volts sold since it entered p...
How quickly dreams can become nightmares.Just a few days after the engineering team behind the Chevrolet Volt triumphantly rolled out the production version of its m...
As the old saw goes: if you win on Sunday, you sell on Monday.But does it apply to the Chevy Volt?General Motors is about to find out as it sends its plug-in hybrid ...
The battery-powered Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car have each earned a "Top Safety Pick" award from the influential Insurance Institute of...
What do you do after winning five straight NASCAR titles? Buy a Chevrolet Volt , of course.Rick Hendrick, owner of the NASCAR Sprint Cup team that runs the car of fi...
DETROIT -- General Motors Co. said Tuesday its Chevrolet Volt electric car will cost $41,000 when it goes on sale in November.While the price is about $8,000 more th...
It's selling so slowly that General Motors is going to shut down the plant that builds it for five weeks, but critical accolades for the Chevrolet Volt keep coming i...
You heard it here first, folks. Maria Rohrer, the Chevrolet Volt marketing manager responsible for the remarkably awful "Volt Dance" at last month's Los Angeles Auto...
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