Word: volt
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...gave general motors cheers for the Chevy Volt, a car still in the design phase. Instead, the company deserves jeers for not reintroducing the EV1, the electric vehicle it launched in the 1990s and canceled on the ground that it was unprofitable. The car worked then, so it should work better now, considering the improvements in battery technology over the last decade. Let's get big business making cars the customers want to buy. Peter Miller, Seattle...
...users were already rattled even before the coordinated attacks of Nov. 8. The saboteurs struck in virtually all corners of the nation without warning, and applied a high degree of knowledge and technical ability in putting the destructive metal hooks in place without being killed by the 25,000-volt power lines...
Dave Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research, offers some grounds for optimism. Once the downturn passes, he says, there will be a lot of pent-up demand for new more fuel-efficient vehicles. GM is feverishly working on the Chevrolet Volt, an electric car that could go a long way towards changing the way Americans think about such cars. Even Chrysler is promising to deliver seven new models...
...situation. While GM has insisted its current reserves of $21 billion can help it weather the economic turmoil and continue its restructuring efforts through 2009, that amount may not be enough to finance a post-merger restructuring of Chrysler. GM is also publicly committed to delivering the new electric Volt automobile before end of 2010 and closing Chrysler plants and technical centers to save cash could violate the spirit of $25 bilion in loan guarantees approved by Congress last month to help American carmakers rebuild - and which emphasized job creation and preservation in the industry...
...Easy Being Green I read your recent article about General Motors' Chevrolet Volt with disbelief [Sept. 29]. There was no acknowledgment that four companies - Aptera, Miles Electric Vehicles, Tesla and Think - plan on bringing fully electric vehicles to the U.S. marketplace before GM does. Alexander Fox, CHARLESTON...