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During cold weather I'm typically around 3.7 mi/kWH. Without climate settings I have seen it as high as 4.2 mi/kWH This is just according to the DIC screen in the car

The idea is that GM CEO Mary Barra says the industry is undergoing more significant change in the next 10 years than the previous 50 years, and electric vehicles will help that change: Full article here: http://www.autonet.ca/en/2015/03/13/woman-changing-how-and-what-we-drive

In a recent article on Detroit News, GM is cutting powertrain warranties from 100,000 miles to 60,000 miles starting with 2016 models. Will this affect the Chevy Bolt warranty? Definitely the powertrain warranty, but I wonder if GM will now offer a lower battery pack warranty too? Full...

GM hasn't said where it will get enough batteries for this 200 mile Bolt EV that they are going to make available nationwide... that will require lots of cells!

According to Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann: "After the eventual run-out of the current generation Ampera, we’ll introduce a successor product in the electric vehicle segment. Our next electric vehicle will be part of our massive product offensive – with 27 new vehicles in the 2014-2018 time...

The Chevy Volt was rebadged (yes, ok, with some styling changes) the Vauxhal Ampera. Rumor has it that Chevy will rebadge the Bolt EV for the European market as the 2017 Opel (Vauxhall) Corsa EV. However, the 5th gen COrsa (non-EV) has just gone on sale across Europe and is unlikely to get a...

Back during the first press days of the North American Auto Show (Detroit), I got very interested in the Bolt EV concept. I used to own a 2012 Volt, now I drive a 2015 Volt and am definitely sold on electric vehicles. I decided to fly to Chicago to see the Bolt in person. If GM goes ahead with...

GM is another company now that seems to think next generation battery tech will be available for this range/price-point around 2017 or 2018. I wonder if it will be lithium-sulfur battery, or Tesla's economies of scale that will get us there? Or I guess improved electroc/nano-tech properties...