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The Chevy
Volt has been hailed as Obama [General] Motors’ electric savior. Now,
as GM officially rolls out the Volt this week for public consumption,
we’re told the much-touted fuel economy was misstated and GM “lied”
about the car being all-electric.
In the past, and based on GM’s claims, we’ve gone so
far as to call the Volt GM’s “Jesus Car.” And why wouldn’t we call it
that? We were told the Volt would achieve 230 MPG fuel economy and
would always use the electric drivetrain to motivate the wheels — only
using the onboard gasoline engine as a “range extender” for charging
the batteries. It now turns out that not only were those fuel economy
claims misleading, but the gasoline engine is actually used to motivate
the wheels — making the Volt potentially nothing more than a very
advanced hybrid car and pushing some automotive journalists like Scott
Oldham at Edmunds.com to claim “GM lied to the world” about it.
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