U.S. battery manufacturers are taking steps to raise the industry's profile, a move that backers hope will speed commercialization of high-tech, American-made car batteries....

At this week's Plug-In 2008 convention (now that sounds hard-core) GM is working with 30 utility companies and consumer groups to develop a strategy for how the Chevy Volt will work in the real......

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Marketing/Advertising, Chevrolet Just how important is the Chevy Volt for ailing General Motors? Obviously, that's a rhetorical as GM is making it out to be the second coming of the horseless carriage. The money being invested into the latest battery technolo...

Bob Lutz, the guy cracking the whip to make sure the Chevrolet Volt gets built by 2010, spent some time behind the wheel of a Volt test mule and couldn't resist the obvious pun, calling it "electrifying." GM's engineers have been flogging the mules -- known formally as "engineering development vehic...

There was a time when an electric car had it's rightful place - On The Moon. But here on earth, dwindling fuel reserves and increased fuel prices have driven the need for alternative energy sources for daily travel. Toyota started the trend with the oddly shaped and eventually trademark "electric ca...

General Motors lost $38 billion last year. And another $3.3 billion in the first quarter. By the end of this year, it’s going to lose a fourth of its U.S. workers. John D. Stoll at The Wall Street Journal writes: GM Sheds 19,000 Jobs Through Buyout Program General Motors Corp. said about 19,00...

Big news out of General Motors, where Vice Chairman Bob Lutz says engineers have started road-testing Chevrolet Volt test mules with lithium-ion batteries and the company has "growing confidence" the car will be in showrooms before the end of 2010. Maximum Bob let the battery tidbit slip during an i...

Chevrolet Volt fanatics are stoked by the spy shots of a Volt test car making the rounds of the blogosphere, but do the pictures show what everyone thinks they show? Yes. And no. It's definitely a Volt test mule, wrapped in the skin of a three-year-old Chevrolet Malibu. But it's not really a Volt. H...

The Chevrolet Volt might just prove to be the game-changing car its supporters say it is, but General Motors expects to lose money on the car "for years," said Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. Maximum Bob's frank admission isn't terribly surprising given the resources GM is pouring into the Volt and the expe...

The GM-athon continues unabated today and even though this isn't Maximum El Camino Day related, it is pretty damned interesting. The supplier of the Li-ion batteries for the much anticipated Chevy......