Monthly Archives: October 2011

You’re Invited: Web Chat with Tony Stewart and Team Chevy

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On Thursday, Nov. 3, beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET, Tony Stewart and his championship-winning World of Outlaws and United States Auto Club drivers will answer your questions in a live web chat. Each driver will chat for 10 minutes and the schedule of times is posted below. We’ll answer as many questions as we can and we hope you can join us.

Remember to watch Tony race in the AAA Texas 500 on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 3 p.m. ET. Levi and Bryan will compete in the National Sprint Championship in Ferris, Calif., on Nov. 3 – 5, and Steve and Donny will drive in the World of Outlaws World Finals in Concord, N.C., on Nov. 3 – 5.

Chat schedule (all times ET):

  • 12:30 – 12:40: Tony Stewart
  • 12:40 – 12:50: Donny Schatz
  • 12:50 – 1:00: Bryan Clauson
  • 1:00 – 1:10: Levi Jones
  • 1:10 – 1:20: Steve Kinser

Why Electric Motors Matter

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By Pete Savagian
GM Chief Engineer for Electric Motors

I’ll admit it: electric motors haven’t been thought of as sexy things. They’re something we take for granted, to be honest. Think about the number of things you use each and every day that have some type of electric motor in them – your garage door opener, the ceiling fan in your living room, or those ones that make your holiday decorations move (hard to believe the holidays are just around the corner).
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Volt Web Chat Oct. 28

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The Chevrolet Volt team will be hosting another web chat on Oct. 28 at 3:00 p.m. EDT. Lindsay Brooke, Senior Editor for the SAE’s Automotive Engineering International magazine, and GM’s Chief Engineer for Electric Motors Pete Savagian will be our panelists and answer questions about the Volt and electric vehicles.

You’re Invited: Chevrolet Volt Battery Reuse Web Chat on Friday

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The Chevrolet Volt’s battery has been designed to last for 10 years and more than 150,000 miles. So what happens to the battery after it is done with its useful life in the car? General Motors has a partnership with ABB Group to identify joint research and development projects that would reuse Chevrolet Volt battery systems, which will have up to 70 percent of life remaining after their automotive use is exhausted. Recent research conducted by GM predicts that secondary use of 33 Volt batteries will have enough storage capacity to power up to 50 homes for about four hours during a power outage.

For more discussion around this topic, please join us this Friday at 2:30 p.m. for a live Web chat. Pablo Valencia, senior manager for battery lifecycle management at General Motors, will join Pablo Rosenfeld, distributed energy storage project manager for ABB will take your questions about these projects. The chat is open to everybody. We hope you can join us!

General Motors Announces Two Industry-First Safety Innovations

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By Gay Kent
Executive Director, Vehicle Safety & Crashworthiness

Last month at the Milford Proving Ground, GM unveiled the Front Center Airbag and Forward Collision Alert system – two innovations that will redefine how drivers think about safety.

Front Center Airbag
This air bag is the first of its kind in the industry to help protect the driver and front seat passenger from far side impacts where the affected occupant is on the opposite, non-struck side of the vehicle. This type of crash accounts for 29 percent of all belted front occupant fatalities in side impacts. This air bag has the potential to reduce these fatalities. Continue reading →