SAFETY

2011 Chevrolet Volt Earns Five-Star Overall Safety Rating

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given the 2011 Chevrolet Volt the first ever five-star designation to an electric vehicle as part of its New Car Assessment Program. For the 2011 test, NHTSA introduced tougher tests and more rigorous requirements for its five-star safety ratings program, such as the introduction of a new side-pole test simulating 20-mph side impact crash into a 10-inch diameter pole. 

It seems engineers are not the only form of wildlife GM’s vehicle engineering center attracts: Cliff swallows built nests made of mud and took up residence under the building’s overhang…. a space ideally suited for their livelihood.

Since cliff swallows subsist primarily on a diet of insects caught in mid-flight, the reflecting pools on the grounds of the Warren Tech Center are a veritable insect buffet for the swallows, as they prey on bugs attracted to water during hot summer months.

Earlier this week, GM announced the renovation of a former administrative building into an environmentally friendly data center at our tech center in Warren, Mich. This Information Technology Operations and Command Center will consolidate GM’s IT infrastructure, reducing operating costs and cutting energy use by about 40 percent.

(3BL Media / theCSRfeed) White Marsh, Md. - May 17, 2011 - The General Motors electric motor plant near Baltimore will be the first by a major U.S. automaker dedicated to making the critical components for vehicle electrification when the plant opens in 2013.