General Motors Co. said it would make modifications to the Chevrolet Volt after a series of fires ignited after test crashes of the plug-in hybrid vehicle. GM said the fires were caused by a coolant ...

Los Angeles • Let’s get one thing straight: The Chevrolet Volt is not a hybrid, nor does its on-board engine drive the wheels. Rather, the engine drives the generator that feeds the battery that ...

"It's not a hybrid! It's an electric car with a range-extending, gas-powered generator onboard." That was the party line during most of the masterfully orchestrated press rollout of what we've been ...

Designed to evaluate and report the results of backup electrical generators, the Generator Self-Test Verifier checks that a generator has started, that its voltage is within a ±10% tolerance window, ...