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Chevy remains on schedule to produce the Volt by the end of 2010. This car will be able to go 40 miles purely using an electric engine, after which point it will act like a gas/electric hybrid. Effectively as long as you don't travel more than 40 miles in a day, the Volt will be an electric car.
GM is requiring a 10 year lifetime for the Volt's lithium-ion battery, and expects to have next-generation lithium-ion battery packs ready for the vehicles by October this year.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070809/sc_nm/gm_volt_dc
The Toyota Prius is clearly the greenest car available right now
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070727/sc_nm/cars_pollution_dc
although the Honda Civic hybrid is close behind. While Toyota is working on a plug-in Prius model, they haven't yet advanced to the lithium-ion battery stage and thus have fallen behind Chevy in the plug-in market.
Toyota surpassed American companies in hybrid technology a decade ago - is GM finally about to reverse this?
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I actually think this could be quite possible.
G.M. have copped heaps of bad press since the release of "that movie". What better way to clean up their image than to regain no 1.
Toyota and Honda have proven beyond any doubt that people will pay a premium for environmentally freindly vehicles.
Personnally I don't give a rats as to who has the best as long as they are all trying to better each other. It is probably more likely that a start up specialised company similar to Tesla, Eestor / zenn or even Zap might get the nod for greenest car first. (It will all depend on what is fact and what is hype)
Just as a footnote
I can see no real benefit in trying to be almost as good as Toyota. Civic Hybrid is almost there, but doesn't sell anywhere near as well.
I actually think this could be quite possible.
G.M. have copped heaps of bad press since the release of "that movie". What better way to clean up their image than to regain no 1.
Toyota and Honda have proven beyond any doubt that people will pay a premium for environmentally freindly vehicles.
Personnally I don't give a rats as to who has the best as long as they are all trying to better each other. It is probably more likely that a start up specialised company similar to Tesla, Eestor / zenn or even Zap might get the nod for greenest car first. (It will all depend on what is fact and what is hype)
Just as a footnote
I can see no real benefit in trying to be almost as good as Toyota. Civic Hybrid is almost there, but doesn't sell anywhere near as well.
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