Inside the Chevy Volt's Battery
Science Advanced automotive batteries like the 400-pound lithium-ion pack going into the Volt bear only a theoretical resemblance to the 12-volt under your hood. PopSci takes a quick look at how they...
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Report: GM Chooses Volt Battery Maker
Cars The competition for Chevy's battery contract is over Since early last year, two companies -- the Watertown, Massachusetts startup A123 Systems and Compact Power, Inc., a division of LG Chem --...
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Maker of Electric Hummer Challenges Chevy Volt on Record-Breaking Fuel Economy
Cars The company developing a plug-in Hummer throws down the gauntlet to smaller hybrids An electric Humvee may still sound like fingernails on a chalkboard to environmentalists, but the company...
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Tool Smackdown: Pocket Multimeters
DIY Our favorite devices for measuring volts, ohms, amps, and Hz in the real world On any given day you can find a miniature multimeter in my pocket. These devices are the equivalent of a Leatherman...
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Based on the Chevy Volt, Cadillac's Electric Converj Concept Could See...
Cars Will GM find great success selling a version of its Volt extend-range electric car with more upscale goodies and wearing a Cadillac badge? With GM's Volt extended-range electric car set to arrive...
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The Chevy Volt Gets a Price Tag: $41,000 Before Tax Credit, First Deliveries...
Cars When the Chevy Volt concept first materialized a few years back, there were a lot of questions surrounding America's first mass-market electric car. While answers to most of… When the Chevy Volt...
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Never Mind the Naysayers: The Chevy Volt is Excellent
Cars Behind the wheel, we find that GM’s highest-profile concept car has become a refreshing, radically different kind of production vehicle That the Chevy Volt exists at all is something of a...
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GM Is Turning Recycled Deepwater Horizon Oil Containment Booms Into New Chevy...
Cars As if it further needed to drive home its eco-friendly, anti-oil message, the Chevy Volt will soon boast a body made partially of recycled equipment originally used in the… As if it further...
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GM’s New Battery Chemistry? It’s Already In the Chevy Volt
Cars Yesterday, GM announced that it would start using an advanced lithium-ion electrode material developed by Argonne National Laboratory. Turns out that an early version of that material is already...
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This Week in Unforeseen Consequences of Technology: Electric Vehicles Attract...
Cars Your Chevy Volt may draw adoring smiles from that cute, crunchy barista you’ve been eyeing at the coffee shop, but be advised: it may also draw rats. At least that was the… Your Chevy Volt may...
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