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Chevrolet Volt gets closer to production

This car pollutes.

5:38 PM, 6/3/2008 .. Posted by Anonymous

This car is a joke.
General Motors is doing it to us again.
They scrapped the GM EV1 and now have given us this unworkable monstosity. 40 miles between recarges is an insult to us.

Chevy Volt

10:14 AM, 16/8/2008 .. Posted by Paul Carson

Get a copy of "Who Killed The Electric Car" (Sony Pictures) from Amazon.com and learn about GM's EV-1, or read <http://www.ev1.org/>
They built a whole fleet of them over TEN years ago. They were fully developed, highly successful, as fast as a Ferrari and users begged to buy them, but they were all recalled from their (lessee) users and crushed! Why? Because GM realised that they were virtually maintenance free and they'd make nothing in after-sales revenue, and in cahoots with the oil companies, they killed the electric car for their own corporate reasons, in other words, greed!
Toyota also built a fleet of fully electric RAV-4 models, also highly successful, but they died too because the company that made the batteries (as also happened with the EV-1) was bought by oil companies and the batteries became unavailable.
The EV-1 was developed and built to comply with California's new (at the time) Zero Emissions mandate, but General Motors and the oil companies hounded the Government into submission and the Zero Emissions bill was withdrawn. A blatant conspiracy by vested interests to keep electric cars off our roads!
IF the Chevy Volt ever sees tarmac it won't be because they want to build it but because they are forced to. Why didn't they just revive the EV1 which was already fully developed?
I'll believe it when I can buy one and drive it.