It accelerates with a big husky twist of its electric motor. Actually, you can even chirp the front tires if you push the go-button hard enough — very unlike a golf cart. It corners confidently and brakes crisply and, if it’s no Ferrari, it certainly won’t embarrass itself on the 110 Freeway, otherwise known as the Pasadena Grand Prix.
It’s comfortable, practical and — graded on the curve of five-seat family hatchbacks — reasonably attractive. Think German-made-dishwasher pretty.
But the question remains: Will the Chevrolet Volt — General Motors’ radical electric vehicle with a range-extending gas generator on board, due in November 2010 — really work? Will it help GM leapfrog Toyota — currently experiencing its own woes — as a grandmaster of green-car technology? Will it help win back legions of disaffected customers? Will it wow EV enthusiasts in Southern California, who still haven’t forgiven GM for building the Hummer H2 or forgotten the murder of its charismatic little electric car of the 1990s, the EV1?
Source: latimes.com
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