Posts Tagged ‘Chevy Volt’
A Plug for the Plug-in
No regrets aint just for Edith Piaf.
People who bought the Chevy Volt said they’d do it all over again. Ninety-three percent of them, anyway. That’s enough to make the Chevy Volt the #1 car in consumer satisfaction, says Consumer Reports.
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Gadgets Galore
Gadget-lovers, brace yourselves.
The new e-century has arrived. The Chevy Volt will sync its OnStar in-vehicle communications with Google’s Android operating system. The linchpin: a 2.0 version of the Volt mobile app that uses Google know-how. Details will be revealed at the Google I/O conference that starts tomorrow in San Francisco, according to earth2tech.com’s Josie Garthwaite.
“Our whole goal here is to put together a great vehicle for customers, not just a battery on wheels,” said Andrew Farah, the Volt’s chief engineer who is quoted by Garthwaite. She notes that the GM-Google arrangement follows Ford’s smart charging deal with Microsoft and hints at a future deal between GM and Google’s PowerMeter.
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On a humbler scale, pedal pushers can re-cycle their own energy, so to speak. Fred Flintstone was on to something. You can now use your own feet to power your mobile devices while biking with the E-Werk.
Urban Daddy has the word:
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These days, everything old is new again. Or it’s just new.
