The other new electrified vehicle, the Chevy Volt, also saw a jump in sales.
Motor Trend and Automobile Magazine just named the Chevy Volt the car of the year!
As a short-term fix, GM announced it would provide free loaner cars for Chevy Volt owners.
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Poor sales have dogged the electric Ford Focus, Chevy Volt and Fisker Karma as well.
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That could eventually mean more people driving a Toyota Prius or Chevy Volt than gas guzzling Volvo.
John Voelcker in GreenCarReports has documented the ludicrous reporting of Matt Drudge attacking the Chevy Volt.
The Chevy Volt is a plug-in hybrid vehicle with extended range capability that went on sale this month.
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Like the Nissan Leaf, the Chevy Volt can also be recharged by plugging it into an electrical outlet.
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General Motors, maker of the Chevy Volt, is also helping to prepare fire service and other first responders.
The Nissan Leaf and GM Chevy Volt will be less than successful because of this and the high price.
The Chevy Volt, however, is never powered by mechanical energy--it has no transmission.
Much of this is due to the Chevy Volt being made in Hamtramck.
It vied for a contract with General Motors when GM was engineering the Chevy Volt, an electric-gasoline hybrid.
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The Chevy Volt, or a vehicle like it, could vault the company back to the front of the technology pack.
Since the government was a majority stakeholder in GM at the time, the Chevy Volt became a model to be emulated.
From its zero waste goals to eco-friendly vehicles like the Chevy Volt, GM is keeping its eye on eco-friendly innovation.
Electric car deployment is moving quickly, and the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, both featured prominently, are doing respectably.
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Continental is working with A123 to develop the electronics to ensure that the cells in a Chevy Volt battery don't misbehave.
Well, fortunately for General Motors, its darling Chevy Volt on which the company hangs much, if not all, of its reputation has got soul.
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Does retired New Jersey-based pilot Jeff Kaffee have the first Chevy Volt, or does North Carolina auto dealer Rick Hendrick?
As is the case with the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf, initial availability will be limited to certain markets.
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When I think electric cars, I think the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt then maybe Tesla and Fisker sports cars.
About the same time Chevrolet launched the Chevy Volt, at the tail end of 2010, Nissan launched the battery powered Nissan Leaf.
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If it includes only hybrids that can run on batteries a lot of the time (such as the Chevy Volt) it will do more.
The Chevy Volt is driven by electric motors powered by lithium-ion batteries that are charged by plugging the vehicle into a standard 110-volt socket.
And during his remarks to the UAW, President Obama said, when I leave office in five years, I'm going to buy a Chevy Volt.
Lutz calls this truck a "Chevy Volt on steroids" and says that it offers "the torque of a monster truck"with the help of a 402hp electric motor.
Or perhaps some kind of range extending technology, a la the Chevy Volt (even though Tesla has spoken negatively of such concepts in the past)?
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Personal: a Prius emits sanctimony (while a Chevy Volt confers sainthood).
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