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Originally Posted by occ
Why announced the series hybrid Volt in Detroit, and then announced the fuel cell Volt in China??!!??!?
If not their intention, it is certainly making the casual reader and follower of the Volt, like myself, skeptical suddenly...I shook my head at this, and my hope sunk a notch at the hope that GM might be able to redeem itself.
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i saw that car in detroit and it was very obvious there was never any intention of producing that car. They would have never made it so over the top if they planned on marketing it as a production vehicle. The technology they were "showcasing was laughable. There was nothing special about it.
there are no technical hurdles to making a battery electric hybrid. They produced a pure EV nearly 10 years ago, it was awesome i even got to drive one way out here in indiana. Anything short of an electrically driven hybrid where the hybrid is only used if going more than 300 miles on a charge is simply selling itself short.
GM has made it obvious that it has no intention of breaking this barrier. They better get their act together or when toyota and honda release their plug ins and eventually a plugin truck they will have no where to go competitively.
historically GM has refused to move forward unless legislation or prosecution forces them to.