Nik J Miles

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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Chevy Volt

Even before the new Chevrolet Volt, started rolling out of dealerships in December 2010, Larry Edsall’s book Chevrolet Volt: Charging into the Future was rolling off the printing presses.

Chevrolet Volt, the book, was officially licensed by General Motors which gave Edsall unprecedented access to the people who made the Volt happen from Bob Lutz to the designers, engineers and even the people who build the Volt.

No single car in recent memory has captured the imagination of the American car buyers more.  The Volt gets plugged in and when it’s charged it can be driven until the batteries run out of juice, at about 40 miles, then just like the Eveready bunny…it keeps on going, using a small gasoline engine to extend the distance, to more than 300 miles. Read the rest of this entry »