What a fraud. I suppose the electricity used to power the batteries for the first 40 miles comes from pixie dust.
To be fair, the Volt was designed and built before the Communists took over.
The Volt is a serial hybrid, essentially just a tiny little gas generator recharging an all-electric car.
It's much better than a Prius parallel hybrid---a combination of the worst of both worlds----which has to have a heavy transmission which can transfer electric power or gas power to the road: but the electric car half can't produce enough power for acceleration, and the gas half has to drag the unused batteries around when it's running.
Parallel hybrids are a ridiculous compromise.
The generator in the serial hybrid can even be more efficient than an ultra-lean turbo diesel, because it only has to run at a single, tuned RPM for maximum efficiency and minimum emissions. The ultra-lean diesels run very hot and create very high NOx emissions (don't ever believe someone who tells you there's a free lunch out there from the Germans, if only big oil would let them in....it ain't big oil, it's BIG EPA who won't let the ultra-lean diesels in!!!)
Now the 40 miles has to be recharged, and 230MPG is stupid, but this is how it's going to be with govt run companies advertising themselves.
All that said, I can't buy a Volt without money going into Obama's criminal UAW machine....so GM is dead to me too.
What a sad, sad confluence. Imagine being an engineer there who brought this thing to fruition.
Now you got it. That magical power source that is going to power our homes, vehicles and industry in the USSA.
A long extension cord and my neighbor's outdoor outlet. That will be great until he buys a Volt too and we run into each other in the yard at midnight with the extension cord plugs in our hands.