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The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid and extended-range electric vehicle car that was manufactured by General Motors, and also marketed in rebadged variants as the Holden Volt in Australia and New Zealand and the Buick Velite 5 in China, and with a different fascia as the Vauxhall Ampera in the United Kingdom and as the Opel Ampera in the remainder of Europe.
Designers at General Motors sought to make the Volt's design as conventional as possible. [60] Engineers were dedicated to minimizing aerodynamic drag, [61] but they intentionally avoided incorporating the distinctive roofline and silhouette of the second-generation Prius, considering it synonymous with the 'hybrid' aesthetic.
At the Volt's debut, GM engineers said the second generation Volt was developed using extensive input from first generation owners. [29] [30] Frontal view of the 2017 model year Chevrolet Volt. Production of the 2015 model year Volt ended by mid-May 2015, while manufacturing of pre-production units of the second generation began in March 2015. [31]
Chevrolet Volt. Photo credit: General Motors Co. Few cars have taken more flak from media critics in recent years than General Motors' innovative green car, the Chevrolet Volt. Of course, few of ...
Nearly three years after General Motors (GM) unveiled the Chevrolet Volt as a concept vehicle, the resurgent automaker Tuesday took the wraps off the final production model that will begin ...
So far, General Motors' electric car strategy has not lived up to expectations. The company introduced the Chevy Volt in late 2010 to great fanfare. The Volt was meant to be a demonstration that ...
Chevrolet Volt concept photographed at the Washington Auto Show. In 1994 after graduating from the College for Creative Studies, Aliyu joined General Motors. [7] At General Motors Aliyu was the co-designer of the Oldsmobile Bravada, Buick Rendezvous and the Opel Astra and was the lead exterior designer for the Pontiac G6 and the Chevrolet Volt, a hybrid electric vehicle with a sleek arcing ...
When General Motors (NYS: GM) CEO Dan Akerson went before a congressional committee to defend the Chevy Volt yesterday, he didn't mince words: "Although we loaded the Volt with state-of-the-art ...