Comments on: GM takes a major step toward an electric future http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/06/10/gm-takes-a-major-step-toward-and-electric-future/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Peterson From GM http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/06/10/gm-takes-a-major-step-toward-and-electric-future/comment-page-1/#comment-186323 Rob Peterson From GM Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:18:35 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/06/10/gm-takes-a-major-step-toward-and-electric-future/#comment-186323 Two clarifications: 1. The Volt is not a hybrid - it is an Extended-Range Electric Vehicle. For up to the first 30 miles it operates as pure electric vehicle. When the battery is depleted an small biofuel engine with create additional electricity to power the vehicle for hundreds of additional miles. 2. GM already has two hybrid propulsion systems in the market on several vehicles including the Chevrolet Malibu, Chevrolet Tahoe 2mode Hybrid, Chevrolet Silverado 2mode Hybrid, GMC Yukon 2mode Hybrid, GMC Sierra 2mode Hybrid and the Cadillac Escalade 2mode Hybrid. The newly opened lab is testing and developing batteries for the Volt, our current and future hybrid vehicles as well as the battery for a Plug-in Hybrid electric vehicle due in 2011. Two clarifications:

1. The Volt is not a hybrid – it is an Extended-Range Electric Vehicle. For up to the first 30 miles it operates as pure electric vehicle. When the battery is depleted an small biofuel engine with create additional electricity to power the vehicle for hundreds of additional miles.

2. GM already has two hybrid propulsion systems in the market on several vehicles including the Chevrolet Malibu, Chevrolet Tahoe 2mode Hybrid, Chevrolet Silverado 2mode Hybrid, GMC Yukon 2mode Hybrid, GMC Sierra 2mode Hybrid and the Cadillac Escalade 2mode Hybrid.

The newly opened lab is testing and developing batteries for the Volt, our current and future hybrid vehicles as well as the battery for a Plug-in Hybrid electric vehicle due in 2011.

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