The Chevy Volt, President Obama's (or is that President and CEO of GM?) proclaimed savior of the American car industry is just another piece of crap produced by unions run by thugs. The Volt, which was supposedly capable of running solely on its electric engine for 50 (50!!! WOW!!!) miles and would get 230 miles per gallon (after they had to add a small gas engine to recharge to battery because most homeowners won't let you pull over and plug in for a while) does a grand total of none of the above. At 70 mph and above and when the battery runs low, the engine takes over, so its really just another hybrid. Journalists who have test driven the car have seen 37.5 city and between 30 and 40 for longer trips, so no 230, unless President Obama has redefined what a gallon is (it depends on what you mean by is?, and keeping up with 80 mph traffic on a highway produced 26 miles per gallon (about what I get with the top down on my all gas V6). Well, I take it back, one part is true. It appears the car is capable of going 50 miles without stopping. So what you have in the end is a $41,000.00 hybrid with worse gas mileage than a $15,000.00 all gas Hyundai Accent, that the government has to offer a $7,500.00 to get anyone other than Ed Beagley, Jr., to even look sideways at the car (so the government gives a tax break to bet people to buy a car from a company owned by the government...I'm pretty sure that's stupid). Congratulations, GM, you've proved that attempting to force supposedly green technology in violation of physics is a pretty difficult proposition.
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