The lithium ion batteries being used for plug-in hybrids such as the Chevy Volt are easily the single most expensive part of the car and now, AFS Trin...
New York Times | Matthew L. Wald | Posted 11.18.2008 | Green
AFS Trinity Power, a small company in Bellevue, Wash., says it has the problem licked. In January, the company rolled out a small S.U.V. that uses lit...
Steve Parker | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business
Most Americans think you have brought this disaster upon yourselves, with inferior, irrelevant products the past 35 years.
EcoGeek | Hank Green | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green
I thought it was ridiculous when GM was advertising the Volt two years before scheduled production. But now Chrysler is advertising the Volt, and they...
Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 10.02.2008 | Green
The original "bailout plan" by Treasury Secretary Paulson was 3 pages long. The Senate version that was passed last night (H.R. 1424) is now 451 page...
Paige Donner | Posted 09.30.2008 | Green
We need to do that to oil. We need to destroy its strategic role and its monopoly over transportation. Electricity, as was the case with salt, is going to be right at the heart of that.
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 09.30.2008 | Green
Chrysler revealed prototypes for three electric cars Tuesday--an SUV, minivan, and coupe--and announced plans to roll one of the models out to showrooms by 2010.
AutoblogGreen | Sam Abuelsamid | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business
At an event in Flint MI today, GM CEO Rick Wagoner and Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm were on hand to officially announce that GM will be buildin...
Josh Nelson | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green
A General Motors corporate executive with a history of denying global warming went on a widely watched television show and pushed a thoroughly discredited theory on the science of climate change.
George Spyros | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green
To adopt some financial lingo being bantered about quite a bit these days, the green "correction" to the U.S. auto industry is in full swing. GM lea...
Comedy Central | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
Colbert gets faux-outraged that an electric car is tantamount to admitting that humans have to do something about climate change. COLBERT: "Why not j...
Maura Judkis | Posted 09.17.2008 | Green
GM just lit up the Internet with opinions from car lovers and tree-huggers everywhere. Here's a quick guide to everything you need to know about the car of the not-so-distant future.
Dave Burdick | Posted 09.16.2008 | Green
The new design, unveiled this week, is rounder, as if to protect a five-year-old from hurting himself while playing with it. Big mistake.
DailyTech | Jason Mick | Posted 09.03.2008 | Green
It's no secret that America's largest automakers -- General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and Chrysler -- are struggling. Weighted by the burden of a t...
Steve Parker | Posted 08.24.2008 | Business
It's the same story we've been hearing from car-makers, especially those in Detroit, for the past 30 years: "Just wait a little longer and we'll have those new cars and trucks you've been hoping for."
Reuters | Posted 08.18.2008 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. has pulled out of its longtime sponsorship of the Academy Awards, one of the biggest annual e...
Steve Parker | Posted 08.15.2008 | Green
GM is promoting the non-existent Chevrolet Volt, telling Olympics viewers it will be manufactured in 2010, but that's not definite. They say its gasoline powers a "generator" which keeps on-board batteries juiced-up.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2008 | Green
General Motors is already aggressively marketing its Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid via the Summer Olympics although the car is not expected in showrooms u...
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 08.14.2008 | Business
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Early versions of the Chevrolet Volt's battery packs are powerful enough to run the high-stakes rechargeable car, but doz...
Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 08.10.2008 | Green
So, who really killed the electric car? Sadly, I think I did. Here's why: Rick Wagoner was interviewed the other day and said - "The future of GM and...
Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green
Bob Lutz, a Vice-Chairman at GM, turns the key and there is no engine sound. There is no hyperbole in that statement. There is NO engine sound. Lutz ...
HybridCars.com | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green
General Motors can't catch a break with its green car plans. As hybrids steadily gained market share in the first half of this decade, the company sta...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
General Motors Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner plans to hold a news conference Tuesday morning to discuss actions the company is takin...
The Atlantic | Jonathan Rauch | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green
Last year, while he was working in Germany as an engineer for General Motors, Andrew Farah got a call from a senior engineer in Detroit asking him to ...
Reuters | Soyoung Kim | Posted 06.03.2008 | Green
WILMINGTON, Del., June 3 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Tuesday its all-electric Chevrolet Volt was on track for a launch in 2010 after the c...
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AutoGreenBlog | Domenick Yoney | Posted 11.18.2008 | Green