Bob Morris on Aug 20, 2009, 8:14 pm Damn. That didn’t last long. Remember the plug-in hybrid Buick that General Motors announced two weeks ago? The one that was basically a re-badged Saturn Vue? GM just killed it. GM has a long, tired history of announcing or doing innovative things then killing them or backtracking Bob Morris on Aug 29, 2008, 9:51 am GM is betting their company on the Chevy Volt. It’s a plug-in electric hybrid supposedly due in 2010. But reports are it will be late and the battery, which they are inventing as they design the car, remains a huge problem. It doesn’t exist yet and if and when it does, will probably be extremely [...] Bob Morris on Jun 23, 2008, 4:47 pm Credit where credit is due. GM is feverishly working on a next generation hybrid,the Chevy Volt, which could make existing hybrids obsolete. The Volt would use a gas engine to supplement the electric engine, the opposite of what current hybrids do, and would use microscopic amounts of gas most of the time. It will [...] | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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