Plug-In Sales For Canada: Nissan LEAF Up 86% Over Last Year, Chevy Volt Off Slightly
In April, sales of the Nissan LEAF checked in at 48 units in Canada. That’s a substantial decline compared the 82 units Nissan sold there in March. However, March was a high-water ...
GM Spokesman Praises Tesla for Model S Sales Success; Analyst Says Chevy Volt Will Regain Top Spot
On May 8, Tesla Motors will release its official quarter one results for 2013. In it, Tesla says it’ll report that sales of the Model S exceeded 4,750 units in Q1. That figure ...
Exclusive: GM Exec Says Spark EV’s 400lb-ft of Torque No Misprint
Ever since the Spark EV was first announced and GM threw around the number 400; as in how many lb-ft of torque the Spark EV will have, there has been some question about if they ...
April 2013 Chevrolet Volt Sales Fairly Flat With 1,306 Sold, As Inventory Continues To Grow
Entering April, GM had only sold only a few hundred more Chevrolet Volts in 2013 then it had in 2012, and was hoping that some huge ballooning of available Volts at the inventory level ...
April 2013 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card
April plug-in vehicle sales had a high level to shoot for this month, as March logged a year’s best 7,800+ electric vehicles sales, despite some lower than expected numbers from ...
GM CEO: Chevrolet Volt Price To Drop By $7,000 to $10,000 For Next Gen
General Motor’s CEO Dan Akerson was a speaker at Fortune’s Brainstorm Green conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif on Tuesday, and he did not disappoint.
At GM, “green” ...
Kentucky Adds Chevy Volts to State Fleet
The powers that be in the Bluegrass State are showing some love for the Chevy Volt.
Steve Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, along with First Lady Jane Beshear, announced in a ceremony ...
DoE to Conduct Li-Ion Afterlife Study With Used Chevy Volt Batteries
Five used Chevy Volt batteries found a news lease on life at the DoE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
That’s where the used, but not used up, Volt batteries will ...
World’s First Chevy Volt Owner is Averaging 454 MPG (Video)
In December 2010, retired airline pilot Jeff Kaffee become the first Chevy Volt owner in the world.
Since then, Kaffee has racked up a decent amount of miles. But it’s not ...
Setting the Record Straight on the 2014 Chevy Spark EV: Launch Date, SAE Combo Charger Details, No Fuzzy Torque Rating and More
There’s loads of information out there on the upcoming 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV. Some of it’s accurate. Some of it’s way off the mark.
Here we’ll provide ...
All The Plug-Ins That Beat London’s New Congestion Charge Threshold
A few days ago we put out a report that London was reducing the congestion threshold to 75 g/km (grams per kilometer of carbon dioxide), down from 100 g/km, in central London’s ...
2014 Chevy Spark EV Gets EPA Range Rating of 82 Miles; 119 MPGe Combined
The official figures for the 2014 Chevy Spark EV are finally here and, for General Motors’ first pure electric vehicle since the EV1, the numbers are mighty impressive.
Range: ...
