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GM’s Green Gambit, Decoded

The Playmaker’s Standard, a Washington, DC-based communications firm, released an analysis on Friday of General Motors’ chess-like strategy for trying to gain a footing in the hybrid car market. The Playmaker’s Standard used its “classification framework of 25 irreducibly unique stratagems or plays” to map GM’s high-stakes tit-for-tat match against critics, including skeptical environmental groups, [...]

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Manufacturers Scrambling To Create Safe and Efficient Hybrid Battery

Whoever killed the electric car is now trying to resuscitate it. As rising oil prices push drivers away from SUVs and toward hybrids, it’s suddenly become apparent to consumer and manufacturers alike that the ultimate green car is one with that can run on batteries. But battery technology is stubbornly limited. Car manufacturers are scrambling [...]

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The Volt: Chevy’s Worst Kept Secret

Can you keep a secret? Apparently, the folks at General Motors can’t either. Wieck Media, a clearinghouse for automakers’ pictures, Wednesday posted photos of the production 2011 Chevrolet Volt on a media information Web site for just 12 minutes before taking them down, long enough for TheCarConnection.com to grab them and keep them live for [...]

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Chevy Volt Pictures Released - and Retracted

Web site The Car Connection on Tuesday managed to get its digital hands on photos of the what is said to be the production version of the Chevy Volt, the much-ballyhooed plug-in hybrid from General Motors.
Production version of the Chevy Volt from General Motors
The photos were made available on GM’s media Web site unintentionally, a [...]

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GM Settles on Volt’s Battery Maker

General Motors Corp. has decided on a battery maker for the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric vehicle, but it’s not saying who it is, yet, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said Thursday on the sidelines of a media event touting the automaker’s 2009 vehicle line.
Lutz said GM plans to announce the battery supplier by the end of [...]

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