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Originally Posted by AJI
A lot of folks here might do well to read these articles:
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.
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I disagree... Its another American car company deception. I predict after the 10,000 or so GM plans to build are gone they'll quit producing them. The chevy volt is a 21'st century Edsel; not very good at what it does. Nissan will capture the all electric market. So we have Toyota and Nissan leading the way when all GM had to do was dust off and update the plans for the Impact (EV-1). Sigh.....
PS Ford is on the right track with this series hybrid:
Ford/Capstone 80 mpg 7 passenger vehicle