"Sales of the 2011 Volt began in the United States in mid-December 2010"
"Volt production ended in February 2019"
Doesn't look like Chevy actually makes the Volt anymore. Also, my point was that had they invested as much in EV as they did ICE doesn't logic suggest we would have had practical EV much earlier than 2011? Take this in the light of the actual article of this post saying that GM knew ICE automobiles were major cause in climate changing conditions.
It's irrelevant that the Volt (a range extended car with both ICE and EV power sources) isn't made anymore, they only produce pure EV nows in the form of the Bolt and some newer cars coming soon.
And the GM EV1 was really the first modern electric car, produced in 1996. They killed it, and it wasn't great (NiCad batteries, weird design, etc.) but it predates anybody else's serious efforts, apart from some stuff in the 70s oil crisis that was built around lead acid batteries.
But basically GM started producing EVs as soon as lithium ion battery manufacturing chains made it possible. Thank Bob Lutz.
But I never said GM wasn't .. basically evil :-) Of course they're riding/pushing the ICE & petroleum wave, and pushing hard on it, that's what makes them money. Because for the last 100 years that's all that was practical, and it's what made them as a company. Boxes that burn dinosaur juice to move. But there was no battery tech until LiOn that could make EV feasible as any kind of alternative.
However GM's evil is subsidiary to the petroleum company's evil. Whatever bad GM has done, oil companies have done x 100.
Doesn't look like Chevy actually makes the Volt anymore. Also, my point was that had they invested as much in EV as they did ICE doesn't logic suggest we would have had practical EV much earlier than 2011? Take this in the light of the actual article of this post saying that GM knew ICE automobiles were major cause in climate changing conditions.