A lot of folks here might do well to read these articles:
It's typical media exaggeration, that's all it is.
The people complaining now that it's not a true EV were the ones complaining that it wasn't a full EV in the first place and were never going to buy the Volt.
For everyone else whose commute is under 40 miles it doesn't
matter that there's connection between the gas engine and the wheels as they won't be using it
anyway unless they do longer journeys,
in which case the motor would switch on anyway, so it makes absolutely
zero difference that it's powering the wheels directly rather than just charging a battery that's providing power to a motor for the wheels...
It's essentially a big media storm that's been blown out of all proportion.