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"Today is a big day," GM Vice Chairman Bob
Lutz told
Edmunds' AutoObserver.com in an exclusive
interview Tuesday. "Today is the first day it is
running on the street on battery power."
And the Chevy
Volt isn't just running on the street on battery
power, it's achieving 40 miles of pure electric range
- a critical benchmark for GM's Volt program.
"It is reliably meeting its objectives. Even with
a rough calibration, even with the wrong drive unit,
the wrong body, etc. etc., it has been hitting its 40
miles on electric power," Lutz said.
I have few doubts that the Chevy Volt will meet its
2010 launch, I just wonder what the final price will
be and whether GM can produce tens of thousands - even
a hundred thousand - Volts by 2011 or 2012. If so a
lot of Volt critics will be eating crow.
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