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Old 10-21-2010, 08:23 PM   #5 (permalink)
nmgolfer
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
Hardly a Volt-killer. Aside from the fact that there's enough of a market out there for both, the Volt would appeal to people who want to drive more than 100 miles or so.

Now if Nissan really wanted to make a Volt-killer, they'd cut the size of the Leaf's battery in half, and add a small APU-type generator.
Its yet another Pig-in-a-poke... Seems the Chevy Volt is designed for one purpose and one purpose only... So that GM can point to it complete and utter failure and say:

"look... we built it but Americans don't want EVs"

Such a shame... they could have updated the EV1 and been the market leader
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