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Popular Mechanics Gets It Wrong on Buick Hybrid

The Volt is in part a brilliant idea, one I had 26 years ago. The problem was in its goals and execution. An all electric drive train is brilliant and to prove its efficiency look at every modern locomotive. Diesel engine, electric drive train. Simple elegant, brilliant and far more versatile that idiot hybrids like the Prius and the far stupider versions everyone else is making. The problem is they should have aimed for a price point of way under $10,000 and they would have come up with totally different answers to engineering challenges. Now they have a car noone will buy but the govt. These guys are so stupid they could screw up sex!