by Leo Karl III | Jul 15, 2010 | General Commentary, Go Green!, New Vehicles
General Motors has announced that the Battery Pack and Electric Drive components of the 2011 Chevy VOLT will carry an impressive 8 year or 100,000 mile warranty. Production of the 16kw VOLT Battery Pack will commence at GM’s Brownstown, MI...
by Leo Karl III | Jul 14, 2010 | Dealership News, General Commentary, Go Green!, New Vehicles
The above ad appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 as a means of introducing metro NY consumers to the Chevy VOLT. As we’ve written about previously on this site, the VOLT will shatter consumers’ expectations on what their car...
by Leo Karl III | Jul 1, 2010 | Dealership News, General Commentary, Go Green!, New Vehicles
The Chevrolet VOLT is inching closer to the start of retail production. Today, General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre announced that Austin, TX and New York City have been added to California, Michigan and Washington DC as initial Launch Markets. The VOLT is...
by Leo Karl III | Jun 30, 2010 | Dealership News, Go Green!, New Vehicles
According to multiple reports in the Wall Street Journal and WCBS 880AM Radio, General Motors is set to announce tomorrow that New York City and Austin, TX (the hometown of GM Chairman Ed Whitacre) are being added to the Launch markets for the Chevy VOLT due...
by Leo Karl III | Jun 22, 2010 | General Commentary, Go Green!, New Vehicles
The Chevrolet VOLT is coming … and KARL Chevrolet will be ready! We want to make sure you start to understand what the VOLT is all about! Sure VOLT is an electric vehicle, but the Chevy VOLT will create a new benchmark in terms of what we think...
by Leo Karl III | Mar 24, 2010 | Go Green!, Special Projects
General Motors and its strategic partner, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. Group (SAIC), have unveiled a new concept they call the EN-V. The letters are an acronym for Electric Networked Vehicle. If nothing else, this design concept is certainly thought...