{"id":59502,"date":"2009-12-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/02\/gm-confirms-chevrolet-volt-to-be-introduced-in-california-before\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T15:30:00","slug":"gm-confirms-chevrolet-volt-to-be-introduced-in-california-before-nationwide-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/59502","title":{"rendered":"GM confirms Chevrolet Volt to be introduced in California before nationwide rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/carbuying\/\" rel=\"tag\">Car Buying<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hybrids\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hybrid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/government-legal\/\" rel=\"tag\">Government\/Legal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/marketing-advertising\/\" rel=\"tag\">Marketing\/Advertising<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/tech\/\" rel=\"tag\">Technology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/chevrolet\/\" rel=\"tag\">Chevrolet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/electric\/\" rel=\"tag\">Electric<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/quick-spin-2011-chevrolet-volt\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/2011chevyvolt_qd_000_opt.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>2011 Chevrolet Volt &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p> If environmentally-friendly transportation is your thing, there&#8217;s no place like California. Not only is the state home base to Tesla &#8211; the first company to genuinely demonstrate that hugging a tree and hugging the road needn&#8217;t be mutually exclusive &#8211; it was also chosen by General Motors as the launch site for its EV1 and by Honda for the FCX Clarity. It should come as no great surprise, then, that GM has just announced that its latest earthmobile &#8211; the highly anticipated Chevrolet Volt &#8211; will launch in California first before being introduced in markets across the country.<\/p>\n<p> Not only with the Volt be available in the nation&#8217;s largest car market before any other, but The General is also partnering with a number of local electric companies to accompany the rollout. Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and Sacramento Municipal Utility District, together with the non-profit Electric Power Research Institute, will help demonstrate the benefits and practicality of the Volt&#8217;s hybrid powertrain, thanks in part to a $30 million grant from the federal Department of Energy&#8217;s Transportation Electrification Initiative. Follow the jump to read all about it in GM&#8217;s full press release.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/quick-spin-2011-chevrolet-volt\/low\/\">Quick Spin: 2011 Chevrolet Volt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/quick-spin-2011-chevrolet-volt\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/2011chevyvolt1_qd_027_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/quick-spin-2011-chevrolet-volt\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/2011chevyvolt1_qd_028_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/quick-spin-2011-chevrolet-volt\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/2011chevyvolt1_qd_029_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/quick-spin-2011-chevrolet-volt\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/2011chevyvolt1_qd_030_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/quick-spin-2011-chevrolet-volt\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/11\/2011chevyvolt1_qd_031_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> [Source: General Motors]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/02\/gm-confirms-chevrolet-volt-to-be-introduced-in-california-before\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>GM confirms Chevrolet Volt to be introduced in California before nationwide rollout<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/02\/gm-confirms-chevrolet-volt-to-be-introduced-in-california-before\/\">GM confirms Chevrolet Volt to be introduced in California before nationwide rollout<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/02\/gm-confirms-chevrolet-volt-to-be-introduced-in-california-before\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19261495\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/02\/gm-confirms-chevrolet-volt-to-be-introduced-in-california-before\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Government\/Legal, Marketing\/Advertising, Technology, Chevrolet, Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery If environmentally-friendly transportation is your thing, there&#8217;s no place like California. Not only is the state home base to Tesla &#8211; the first company to genuinely demonstrate that hugging a tree and hugging the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}