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

The Detroit Auto show is this week, a time for all of the auto manufacturers to flex their muscles and try to out guess what the rest of the market will be doing in 5-10 years. As usual, they are showing a bunch of non-functional prototypes and concept vehicles, trying to guage the response to their ideas so that they can decide what to build for us to drive a couple of years from now...

Currently leading the buzz in the EV realm would be the fact that GM "could be" jumping back into the electric vehicle market with a nifty looking plug-in hybrid called the Chevy Volt. It is just a rolling chassis at the moment, and they still don't have a battery pack lined up for it, but what they are claiming sounds interesting...