John V

GM: Charging Forward with the Volt?

Oh, PLEASE ...


On Nov 07 10:54 AM User 279697 wrote:

> There is no need for battery technology; GM demonstrated the PRECEPT
> in 1998, a serial hybrid like the VOLT in 1969, and had a 110-mile-range
> all-electric EV in the 1999 (and 1997 with upgraded PSB batteries)
> in the lead-acid EV1.
>
> The plain fact is that GM doesn't want to produce a serial hybrid
> EV.
>
> The VOLT is a 40-mile-range EV with a range-extending genset; there
> are thousands of home-build lead-acid EVs with more than 40 miles
> range.
>
> So GM is a liar, and/or Lutz is ignorant; so what's new about that.

>
>
> How else did GM get into its current fix, pathetic and pitied, from
> its former dominance...it was bonehead crap like delaying the VOLT,
> and crushing the EV1.