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  GM Targets Up to $10,000 in Chevy Volt Cost Savings

  General Motors Co., which loses money on every Chevrolet Volt it sells, wants to cut as much as $10,000 per car from the model’s production cost to make the next generation of the plug-in hybrid affordable and profitable, Chief Executive Officer Dan Akerson said.

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  GM’s Chevy Volt Outsold Nissan Leaf Last Year, BNEF Says

  General Motors Co.’s Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Motor Corp.’s plug-in Prius outsold Nissan Motor Co.’s Leaf globally for the first time, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said.

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  Motor City Revived as Detroit Withers to Motown Shadow

  Sheila Cockrel remembers one early sign of Detroit’s decline: The retailer J.L. Hudson’s turned off the lights on floor after empty floor as shoppers abandoned the world’s tallest department store for new suburban malls.

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  GM’s Chevy Volt Probed by U.S. as Damaged Batteries Catch Fire in Testing

  General Motors Co.’s electric plug- in hybrid Chevrolet Volt is the subject of a U.S. safety probe after its lithium-ion batteries, supplied by LG Chem Ltd., caught fire in crash tests.

• GM’s Chevy Volt Named ‘Green Car of the Year’ at L.A. Auto Show

  General Motor Co.’s Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in vehicle intended to go as far as 40 miles solely on electricity, was named the 2011 Green Car of the Year at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

• GM’s Chevy Volt Plug-in Chief Tony Posawatz Retires

  General Motors Co. said the engineer who oversaw the Chevrolet Volt plug-in sedan’s development and production for the past six years has left the company.

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  Chevy Volt Gets Range on 435-Pound Battery, Vindicates Michigan

  Next month, General Motors Co. will begin selling its electric car, the Chevrolet Volt . It’s costly for a midsize vehicle -- $41,000 -- and only about 10,000 will be produced next year.

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  U.S. Grant to Korean Battery Firm Paid Workers to Play

  Part of $142 million in U.S. Energy Department grant money given to a South Korean battery maker paid Michigan factory workers as they spent hours playing board games and watching movies, according to an agency report.

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  Behold! The Future Comes in a Ford Transit Van: Jason H. Harper

  I’ve given up on jetpacks. Star Wars light sabers? Not, apparently, in my lifetime. And if regular air travel is any indication, space tourism will be expensive and uncomfortable.

• GM’s Chevy Volt Misses 2011 U.S. Sales Goal as Safety Probed

  General Motors Co.’s Chevrolet Volt missed its U.S. sales target of 10,000 cars in 2011, the company said. Chevy dealers sold 1,529 of the plug-in hybrids last month, leaving the brand 2,329 shy of its goal.

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