Re: Motortrend article: 100 MPG+ Chevy Volt, GM's "Moon Shot"

A guess we can assume you know nothing about the Volt, right?

Yeah, right, only problem is, it can't run on batteries only, it will run > for a few miles and then become a regular hybrid, it is expected to cost > about $40,00-$48,000 and apparently, really only get about 40 mpg. OOPS > sorry folks, did we waste your bailout money. > >> It's an interesting article about how the car with a possible 100MPG+* >> rating come into being. >> >> "It was the equivalent of an Apollo moon shot: The company was going >> to invent a propulsion system and design an entirely new vehicle at >> the same time. "We don't normally let people do that," notes GM CEO >> Rick Wagoner. But despite those misgivings, Wagoner and his team had >> now set a goal of unveiling a new design-not a fanciful concept car, >> but a real car that could go into production-at the January 2007 >> Detroit auto show, only nine or 10 months away. By the standards of >> the automotive industry, that would require blazing speed." >> >> Full article: >>

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> * EPA Closer to Giving the Chevy Volt at Least a 100 mpg Rating: >>

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