General Motors is planning on building at least 60,000 Volt cars in 2012. GM CEO and Chairman Dan Akerson said that the manufacturing cost will be coming down as their full-scale production will start to ramp up. GM is currently playing catch-up to the Nissan LEAF vehicle, which has about 20,000 buyers already and is planning to build 250,000 electric-vehicles by 2016. GM believes that 10% of their sales will be from alternative fuel technologies in 2020. When GM starts to sell the Holden Volt next year, it will cost $50,000-$60,000. In related news, GM is currently in the midst of having the Volt battery redesigned as the result of a recall.

Apple iOS 5 has a feature that you may not know of, which is known as “Speak Selection.” This feature reads the text out loud that is on Safari. I have tested it out on Pulse2.com and it works very well. The Speak Selection feature works on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. To enable the feature, here is how you set it up:

Ford Motor Company has decided to do something offbeat for the holidays by creating this sleigh concept for Santa Claus. Since Santa has to travel 200,237,360 km, why shouldn’t he try to be more green? The sleigh is based on the Ford Evos concept and it will save 214,670 tons of CO₂. Santa would also save money from having to spend $191 million to feed his reindeer carrots.

Yesterday I wrote about how many GoDaddy.com customers would be switching away from the service because of the company’s support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). A post on Reddit went viral that had a call-to-action to make December 29th the day for people to transfer domain names away from GoDaddy.

When Apple invented the iTunes and the iPod, the music industry changed forever. This is why the Recording Academy has awarded former CEO and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs with a Trustee Award. The award was for “outstanding contributions to the industry in a non-performing capacity.” This is Apple’s second Grammy award as contributions to the music industry. Their work in recording earned them a Technical Grammy 10 years ago. [MacRumors]

Facebook has launched a new feature called Suggested Events. Suggested Events goes through your account history to find events you may want to attend based on what your friends are attending. The tool also uses your Facebook check-in history, and brand page activity. The suggested events also makes suggestions based on the music you listen to through Open Graph apps.

Earlier this month comedian Louis C.K. released a torrent video of his “Live at the Beacon Theater” for the $5 DRM-free download. Either you can visit his website and pay $5 or you can pirate it yourself. Louis C.K. fans are showing their support by paying for it as there is now $1 million in his PayPal account. It only took about 12 days to hit that number. C.K. is paying $250,000 in costs for the website, $250,000 to his staff as a bonus, and $280,000 will be given to charities such as Kiva, Charity:Water, Green Chimneys, The Pablove Foundation, and The Fistula Foundation. [TechDirt]

Inflight WiFi company Gogo has filed for a $100 million IPO. Gogo has raised a total of over $500 million in funding. Gogo provides in-flight connectivity to 9 out of 10 airline companies in North America. Gogo has a trial agreement with United Airlines and Air Canada. As of September 30, 2011, Gogo equipped about 1,177 planes with Internet access and represents 85% of Internet-enabled commercial aircrafts. Gogo is operated on more than 4,200 daily flights.