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GM said buyer interest in the new Chevrolet Volt has prompted the automaker to boost 2012 production plans for the plug-in hybrid to 45,000 units from 30,000.

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General Motors has begun advertising for one of the most highly anticipated model launches in years, the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid. The ‘Shattering Status Quo’ campaign teases the Volt and will be a big test for GM’s new U.S.

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General Motors Co., preparing to launch the first U.S. mass-market plug-in hybrid, will offer buyers of its Chevrolet Volt an eight-year, 100,000-mile warranty on the lithium-ion battery’s 161 components.

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General Motors is preparing to announce plans for warranty coverage on the Chevrolet Volt’s lithium-ion batteries, The Detroit News reported.

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The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid will launch in Michigan, joining California as a market that will get the car initially, General Motors Co. said today.

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General Motors Co. will spend $336 million so its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant can produce the Chevrolet Volt hybrid electric car starting late next year.

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General Motors Co. will roll out its Chevrolet Volt in California first, as it ramps up production slowly, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said.

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General Motors Co. tomorrow is expected to announce that the rollout of the new Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid will take place in selected U.S. markets — not as a national launch.

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Frank Weber, the German-born engineer in charge of the Chevrolet Volt, is moving back to Germany to take a senior management role at Opel.

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General Motors Co. said today it will invest more than $230 million in four plants around Flint, Mich., to help build the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze compact and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid sedan.

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General Motors Co. said today it will invest more than $230 million in four plants around Flint, Mich., to help build the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze compact and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid sedan.

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General Motors Co. said today it will invest more than $230 million in four plants around Flint, Mich., to help build the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze compact and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid sedan.

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General Motors Co. said today it will invest more than $230 million in four plants around Flint, Mich., to help build the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze compact and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid sedan.

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Bob Kruse, one of the key architects of General Motors’ Chevrolet Volt program, quit his position Tuesday to start a consulting firm. The plug-in Volt hybrid is widely viewed as one of the most important vehicle launches in GM’s history.

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General Motors Co.’s $43 million plant to assemble battery packs for the Chevrolet Volt moves the automaker a step closer to completing a network of factories that will supply parts for the plug-in hybrid.

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General Motors Co.’s $43 million plant to assemble battery packs for the Chevrolet Volt moves the automaker a step closer to completing a network of factories that will supply parts for the plug-in hybrid.

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General Motors Co. will invest $43 million to create a plant in Michigan where it will build lithium-ion battery packs for its Chevrolet Volt and other electric vehicles.

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Nissan Motor Co., in an online marketing blurb, says it isn’t impressed by the Chevrolet Volt’s 230-mpg claim. The Japanese automaker says its new Leaf electric vehicle gets 367 mpg, or about 60 percent better fuel efficiency than the Volt.

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The Chevrolet Volt will get a government in-city fuel-economy rating of “at least 230 miles per gallon,” CEO Fritz Henderson said today.

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General Motors Co. will announce next week the location of its new Michigan plant that will assemble the battery pack for the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, GM’s top engineer said today.

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General Motors is working without interruption on the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid despite mounting financial woes and the threat of bankruptcy, said Tom Stephens, the automaker’s product development chief.

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General Motors is working without interruption on the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid despite mounting financial woes and the threat of bankruptcy, said Tom Stephens, the automaker’s product development chief.

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General Motors said it won’t get federal funding for its Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid car until the company is certified as financially viable by the Obama administration. The automaker has applied for $10.3 billion in U.S.

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Although General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson has said that every GM model must “pay the rent,” there will be at least one prominent exception: the Chevrolet Volt. Last week GM disclosed that it had requested $2.

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DETROIT — General Motors has scrapped plans for a new engine plant in Flint, Mich., that would have built 1.4-liter engines for the Chevrolet Volt hybrid and Cruze compact.

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