The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a statement on its investigation into a Chevrolet Volt fire that occurred at the organization’s facilities. NHTSA had done a side-impact ...

Did U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood speak too soon about the Chevy Volt? The General Motors electric car suffered from quite a bit of hype late last year due to potential fire risks ...

Chevrolet Volt owners Storm and Dee Connors were reportedly woken up by the sound of fire alarms in their Barkhamsted, Connecticut home for the second time in a week. As you may recall, the Connors ...

Federal officials say they are investigating the safety of lithium-ion battery in General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet Volt after a second battery fire following crash-testing of the electric car. The ...

The headline in the Wall Street Journal reads “GM's Volt Woes Cast Shadow on E-Cars.” It is, of course, the kind of public relations nightmare no brand –- or technology -- in its infancy wants to face ...

General Motors is sending the line to the great scrap heap in the sky. Chevy Volt Owners To Get Safer, Flame-Free Batteries After much-publicized news that Chevy Volt batteries caught on fire during ...

Brace yourselves, electric-car advocates, for another possible round of alarmism and superficial reporting about fires in plug-in cars. A Bloomberg story from Friday highlights a third fire involving ...

A Chevrolet Volt that caught fire three weeks after its lithium-ion battery was damaged in a government crash test has regulators taking a harder look at the safety of electric car batteries, federal ...