Chevrolet

Chevrolet also known as Chevy is a brand of vehicle produced by General Motors Company(GM). Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C.Durant on November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918. Chevrolet was positioned by Alfred Sloan to sell a lineup of mainstream vehicles to directly compete against Henry Ford's Model T in the 1920s, with "Chevrolet" or "Chevy" being at times synonymous with GM. In North America, Chevrolet sells and produces a wide variety of automobiles, from subcompact cars to medium-duty commercial trucks.

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Future cars, trucks and development

The Chevrolet division is currently recovering from the economic downturn of 2007–2010. After sales of GM vehicles plummeted and when the U.S Government bailed out the company, GM began developing more fuel efficient cars and trucks in order compete with foreign automakers such as Toyota and Honda. Since, the sales of the Chevrolet brand have been healthy. Sales were up due to new cars such as the Cruze, Volt, and a redesigned Equinox and Malibu. In late 2010 General Motors began a small production of the plug-in electric Volt, which later was announced as the 2012 North American Car of the Year and World Green Car of the Year, and production numbers are expected around 60,000 in the 2012 fiscal year. At Auto China in 2010 General Motors showed the Volt MPV5 concept, an MPV based on the electric Volt sedan but, the MPV hasn't been official on or if production will exist. Chevrolet has also shown the new version of the Aveo, renamed Sonic at the 2011 North American Auto Show in Detroit. The Sonic will feature a four-door sedan, hatchback, as well as a sport version. The Chevrolet Malibu, which the model of the 8th gen. were considered to have been one of General Motors' turnaround cars through the tough economic crisis of 2008–10 was announced that a 9th generation would succeed over the previous model in the first quarter of 2012 was revealed in the April 2011 on the company's Facebook page as well as in New York.

New for 2011–2013 model years:

  • Spark
  • Sonic
  • Cruze ( In production)
  • 9th Gen : Malibu

History

North America

When Durant sold Chevrolet shares to McLaughlin in 1912, Durant had an idea that McLaughlin was in full production building McLaughlin Cars with Buick power trains(15 year contract Durant had with McLaughlin). Durant felt he could have McLaughlin do with Chevrolet what he did with Buick, and had McLaughlin build his Chevrolets as well. Starting in 1915 in 1916, Durant and the McLaughlin Brothers had traded Chevrolet stock at 5 to 1 and 7 to 1 and took over General Motors holding Company. McLaughlin had no worry about his Buick contract when Billy was back at the helm. General Motors started in Canada in November 20, 1907, McLaughlin and Durant started their company General Motors Holding Company in the USA September 16, 1908. McLaughlin is never addressed by the Ken Kaufmann papers or build documents but takes credit for the Bow Tie information published years before. McLaughlin started Chevrolet trucks in 1919 and General Motors in 1916 became a Corporation. McLaughlin traded the $500,000.00 in Buick stock that Durant had traded him for McLaughlin stock in November 20, 1907. This investment by McLaughlin and Durant gave McLaughlin more ownership in General Motors and Chevrolet in Canada is Building Chevrolet. The truck plant was shut down after building trucks from 1919.

China

In 2009, China became Chevrolet's third largest market, with sales of 332,774 vehicles, behind only the United States and Brazil (1,344,629 and 595,500 vehicles respectively).

India

Chevrolet is among the newest brands in India launched by GM's India operations. Until June 6, 2003 (the official birthday of Chevrolet), GM India (which was originally a joint venture with Hindusthan Motors) sold the Opel Corsa,Opel Astra, and the Opel Vectra . The Corsa and Astra were built at a plant in Halol, Gujarat.
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Obama Announces New Standards To Double Vehicle MPG By 2025

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Will your next vehicle get much better gas mileage than your current one? Ask most car shoppers and it's a priority.

A new mandate formally announced this morning arguably makes it even more likely you'll find enlarge photo one with significantly higher mpg. The Obama administration and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have come to an agreement with 13 major automakers—as well as the state of California and its Air Resources Board, and the United Auto Workers (UAW)—about fuel economy. The new standard, which will eventually require a 54.5-mpg fleet average (roughly 163 grams of CO2 per mile), will effectively double the average fuel economy of U.S. vehicles by 2025.

Backed by automakers, and a big move against oil dependence

President Obama cited the rising burden of gasoline costs at a time when budgets are tight, and called the new rules "the single most important step we've ever taken in reducing out nation's dependence on foreign oil." He also argued strongly for taking oil and gas subsidies and funneling the funds toward clean-energy research and "a more balanced approach."

According to the Administration, the new rules, which were reached without the need for legislation, will save U.S. families $1.7 trillion in fuel costs and by 2025 save an average of $8,000 per vehicle. And they're estimated to help save 12 billion barrels of oil and save 2.2 million barrels of oil a day by the time they're fully implemented.

There are massive greenhouse-gas reductions, too; the new rules will cut more than six million metric tons of CO2 by 2025—more than the U.S. emitted in total this past year.

The new regulations build their trajectory from existing rules that apply to model years 2012 through 2016, raising fuel efficiency to a 35.5-mpg fleet average by then—increasing the required fleet average by 3.5 percent each year for five years, then five percent per year after that.

Getting automakers and the State of California involved will also help ease worries about that state trying to enact its own more stringent regulations about fuel economy and CO2.

To achieve the gains, it's likely that we won't see automakers relying broadly on any single technological developments or powertrain types; rather they'll be applying a portfolio of strategies like hybrids , plug-ins, pure electric vehicles, and range-extended electric vehicles.

There's a mid-term evaluation built into the program, in which agencies will be able to evaluate how well the national framework is working—and how well automakers are keeping up. Some environmental groups are already calling foul that this could be a launch point for automakers to stall the incremental improvements, as happened in the 1980s and 1990s.