GM to engineer RWD hybrid powertrain for future Cadillacs?

Filed under: Hybrid , GM General Motors ‘ two-mode hybrid system hasn’t exactly been a commercial success. GM has had a hard time finding customers willing to part ways with $10,000 or more for a fully capable SUV with sedan-like city fuel economy, but that reportedly isn’t stopping the Detroit, MI-based automaker from improving its hybrid formula for its next generation of vehicles. GM is said to be working on a new electric motor that will reportedly shrink in size by 25 percent while increasing power by 20 percent.

Song remains the same: GM loses billions, Volt still on track

2011 Chevy Volt - Click above for a high res gallery GM’s announced yesterday that it lost $6 billion in the first quarter of 2009 . That’s par for the course for the General these days. What’s also pretty standard was the immediate confirmation that work on the Chevy Volt is going A-OK and that, as GM’s product development chief Tom Stephens said, “At this point in time, I know of no reason why we can’t be in production by November of 2010.” No reason?

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