It's Electric

Hoping to catch up to Toyota, General Motors is unveiling the Chevy Volt concept car, a plug-in hybrid that runs on pure electricity. But will it actually hit the highway?

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Keith Naughton
Newsweek
Updated: 8:19 a.m. CT Jan 7, 2007

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8492659

Jan 4th 2007 | DETROIT
From The Economist print edition
Carmakers demonstrate a new enthusiasm for electric vehicles

ANY good mystery must eventually uncover a villain, and in a recent documentary, “Who Killed the Electric Car?”, the filmmakers duly pointed the finger at General Motors. The reality is not quite so simple, but there is little doubt that when GM pulled the plug on its EV1 battery-powered car a decade ago, other manufacturers followed the giant carmaker's lead.

Links:

• Marc Geller discusses the article in his blog

http://transport.seekingalpha.com/article/22914

John Addison at SeekingAlpha writes about GMs stance on electric cars and what it may cost them into the future...

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070102/OPINION04/701...

Detroit Free Press readers speak out on the issue of electric cars.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story...

Links to the news release.

Some discussion of the release at Green Car Congress...