Price vs. fuel savings for Chevy Volt debated BY KATIE MERX FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER The average U.S. driver of a Chevrolet Volt is expected to save $1,500 to $2,000 a year on fuel, compared with today’s compact cars and about $1,000 a year compared with a Toyota Prius hybrid. But the debate continues over [...]
Saturday, September 20, 2008 Pending loans boost stocks GM draws on credit for $3.5 billion more Deb Price and Bryce G. Hoffman / The Detroit News WASHINGTON — As optimism grew on Wall Street that $25 billion in low-cost loans for the auto industry would be funded following the federal government’s decision to bail out [...]
S&P puts AutoNation on credit watch queryvar=”s&p,puts,autonation,on,credit,watch”; Chrissie Thompson Automotive News | September 19, 2008 – 4:07 pm EST Standard & Poor’s has put the nation’s top dealership group on credit watch, citing the U.S. economy and falling auto sales. AutoNation Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has a BBB- investment grade from [...]
The Air Car Blows Back Into the Picture By Jim Motavalli Fact or fiction: Zero Pollution Motors plans to start building its air-powered car by 2011 at the latest. (Zero Pollution Motors) In 2000, I wrote about Motor Development International, a European company that had developed 2-cylinder cars that could run on tanks of compressed [...]
