This blog was started September 9th. That was a couple days after GM called to see if I was interested in being on the Customer Advisory Board for the Volt. I wasn’t allowed to… read more

I really wanted to love this car. I mean, if I were Lance Armstrong and Nissan had already delivered my Leaf (pictured above), maybe I would be writing about how much I loved this… read more

The Detroit News has the scoop on how I got my scoop about the size of the Chevy Volt's gas tank. They wrote an entire article about the Customer Advisory Board , but that photo… read more

My hope is that once I have my Volt I will be able to do occasional test drives with blog readers. I have no idea how I will coordinate that. But that's my hope. In the meantime,… read more

During our dinner on the Detroit trip one of the executives discussed the chargers. He said that it was important for GM to have a supply of the chargers to sell with the cars, so… read more

(A continuation of the Detroit Trip .) Nick Pudar, the director of OnStar, offered to take “anyone interested” down to see the Command Center. Who wouldn't want to see something… read more

Of course you do. But it will be November before your local dealer has one. If that dealership is one of the 600. So GM is making it easier for you, they are bringing the car to…

I can't bring myself to get a neighborhood car. It seems like such a luxury to have a vehicle that can't go on even the secondary roads in Los Angeles. But if I was going to get…

Wow, I know nothing about cars and mechanics. This article is proof of that, since I can't understand the slide show completely, and if you can't follow along with the pictures,…

Actually, it's recorded. But that's not the title of a Rolling Stones album. Here is Larry Nitz and Micky Bly discussing the propulsion system on the Volt. I love that they took…

You know you've made it when you hit the New York Times , right? Well, the Old Grey Lady finally coughed up an article, so that's a good sign. Onward!

The Wall Street Journal is running a fascinating article about a jet-powered car. All of it is good reading for anyone interested in cars, but the item that caught my eye is that…

It was, in the Internet Service Provider business and the telephone service business, the messiest part of the system: the last mile to the customer. Taking care of your network,… read more

That was certainly easy. I detailed it in Tweets, but the electrical contractor that GM brought in could not have been better. They showed up at 11:20am for an 11:30am… read more

I love Nero Wolfe. If you don’t know him and you like mysteries you should look him up and read a few. They are fantastic. Rex Stout worked hard and made a real character to live… read more

One cannot blog in only one place, so I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post . I reviewed a book by my friend Renee French, "h day."

This is the sort of spontaneous publicity that the Chevy Volt needs to get ahead. (A very nice article in the Los Angeles Times.)

I know that this sort of thing is going to hit the market in the next five to ten years. And it will be a real game changer. That's a bit of battery that the researchers at Rice… read more

Primarily, lights. There's a photo of my kitchen. (Out that window, across the little patch of grass is the garage where the Volt will park. The charger is out there waiting for… read more

I don't know how the Wall Street Journal's access policy is going to work out for you here. If you can get through their pay wall, if it's up, there is a great article by Dan Neil…

While we were in Detroit the CAB members spoke up and said we'd love to have graphics on the car to promote it more. This was the result. There are much more interesting (and…

The conference calls between GM and the members of the Customer Advisory Board will be off-the-record. There will be no reporting of agendas, minutes or details revealed in the… read more