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EPA vs the Chevy Volt: Hybrid or electric car? 48mpg or 100mpg?

Posted on September 06, 2008

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, GMThe Chevrolet Volt raises a lot of questions. From its public unveiling in January 2007 people wondered, is it a hybrid or an electric car? Right from day 1 in December 2006 before the auto show, GM officials have called it a range extended electric car. They use the electric car terminology because, unlike what we think of as hybrids today, only an electric motor drives the Volt. The engine, a normally aspirated 1.4L (not turbocharged as Motor Trend indicates) just drives a generator (not a two mode hybrid unit as MT says) instead of the wheels. H...

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