Chevrolet Volt News

Toyota may be readying a Prius sub-brand for its most fuel efficient offerings, but General Motors says it has no plans to launch a green Volt division.

Auto executives know how to get U.S. drivers to save a whole lot more gasoline: Raise the price of gas, to at least $4 a gallon.

There's a simple way to get people to drive fuel-efficient cars, according to auto executives, but they are not going to like it - sharply hike the gas tax.

New Models What you'll be driving in 2010 European 2009 Ford Fiesta is coming to Canada and the U.S. next year as a 2011 model.

Looking for a trend in 2010's automotive world isn't exactly like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Yesterday, we shared two divergent opinions from electric utility execs about how prepared the infrastructure may be for the proliferation of plug-in cars.

Doubters looking for bad omens connected to the launch of the Chevrolet Volt won't find one in the leadership switch on the electric car's team.

Experts warn fuel prices could skyrocket again, the troubled environment is on everyone's mind, and the world economy -- well, the less said the better.

MICHIGAN GOVERNOR PREDICTS END OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Yes, it is true. Governor Jennifer Granholm said she could "see the end of the internal combustion engine" in the near future and the end of that era in the mighty Michigan manufacturing machine.

Just got my first drive in one of Ford's prototype battery-electric Focus EVs, the culmination of a short electrification program Ford and the Electric Power Research Institute held for the media in San Francisco this morning.

The Chevrolet Volt chief executive is leaving almost one year before the extended-range vehicle's launch to take a new job with General Motors Co.'s struggling German carmaker Adam Opel GmbH.

American automakers are offering some amazingly good prices on their products as they try to climb out of the abyss of the global financial meltdown.

In the past few weeks, I've had an opportunity to experience the cutting edge in plug-in electric vehicle technology.

Europeans have been slow to the game with hybrids, having bet most of their green strategy on highly efficient clean diesels.

Electric vehicle champions boil their environmental arguments down to a few simple claims in comparisons with traditionally fueled cars and trucks: Cleaner now, far cleaner in the very near future.

Electric-car makers ranging from Ford Motor Co. to California startups are using $11 billion in taxpayer funds to supply a market that doesna t yet exist.

Depending on whom you ask, this tiny company is either the next big thing in automobiles, or a maker of glorified golf carts.

Fisker Automotive, prospective hybrid vehicle automaker, will buy a former General Motors plant in Wilmington, DE, to build a plug-in hybrid sedan.

It's a sad thing when an auto show loses its exhibitors, and this was a tough year for Tokyo.

There is no doubt that the Chevy Volt news coming from GM over the past year has been nothing short of electric - especially the claim by GM that the Chevy Volt will come with a game changing EPA city rating of 230 MPG .