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Is the Chevy Volt really an electric car?
Is the Chevy Volt an electric wannabe?Is the Chevy Volt the real deal, as GM insists, or just an electric car wannabe.
It has a little gas: Sure, the Volt can travel 50 miles on its lithium battery and while doing so, emit no pollution. But when you're asking $41,000 for a car, you can't have people worried about running out of juice without a plug in sight. So GM has added a small gasoline engine that would help maintain the charge on the battery as it starts to run down. That, according to the carmaker, extends the Volt's range to 350 miles. But doesn't that kinda make it a hybrid? Will the Volt get the 230 miles per gallon that GM once predicted?
Ah, no.
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