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Will the Chevy Volt -- General Motor's new plug-in hybrid unveiled today -- be a game changer, as CEO Daniel Akerson hopes? We'll soon find out as the car is scheduled to begin shipping to dealers next month.

The automaker plans to roll out its first all-electric passenger car in 20 U.S. cities late next year.

General Electric Co. (GE) backtracked from comments reportedly made by CEO Jeffrey Immelt in which he criticized President Barack Obama and Chinese trade policy. In an article in the Financial Times, Immelt was reported as saying that Obama and U.S. business had a hostile relationship. The U.S....

When a General Motors plant in Wilmington, Del. shut down this July, it left 550 people out of work. But the city isn't mourning the loss of Big Auto so much anymore because Very Little Electric Auto is taking its place. Fisker, maker of small plug-in hybrid cars, announced Tuesday it was buying...