AMAZING ! WTF ! If I'm going to be constantly exposed to propoganda, and biased reporting, why is it always scewered against AMERICA ? I'm in Japan, the press is always bashing American automobiles, and providing biased articals in support of their home industry. I'll admit that they are not as subtle as what I read in the American press, but I believe that the subtalties used by the American press in it's biased and manipulative wording is actually more effective then the outright B.S. put forth in the Japanese press. Of course it dosn't matter because their both publishing articals which are manipualting the facts in support of the Japanese manufacturers ! Take for instance the article above reporting about the 2013 VOLTS boosted range. While the article states exactly what I am about to state, please notice the differance in perception.

 While Honda announced yesterday their new FIT offers a 118 MPG fuel estimate, which of course wil very due to divers habits, terrain, and other conditions, and which will be priced  at about the same as the VOLT, yet provides a style that is all to familier as the standard Japanese sub-compact, and is only capable of traveling a paltry 82 miles before having to stop and charge up, the VOLT with it's sporty exterior hatch back design, it's comfortable,  and as far as hybrids go, plush interior, not to mention it's competative price, and compatition smashing range of 380 miles per tank (at which point the VOLT just nedds a six gallon fill up to continue on for an additional 380 miles as oppossed to the compatitions 6 to 12 hour  nap !) the VOLT is the hybrid to beat for real world viability !
 Now being that GM is an American manufacturer, and you can listen to the naysayers who write this propoganda, or you can check it out for yourself. Most of what GM sells if manufacturered here in the U.S. that is why the company employs over 62,000 workers here in the U.S.. These Americans earn an average of 64,000.00 annually and together provide roughly 685 MILLION  in annual federal tax revenu. That is nearly 1 Billion dollars a year in tax revenue provided by the directly employed persons working for G.M.. In addition the American companies that subcontract their products and services to G.M. employee an additional 750000 thousand Americans, providing an annual Federal Tax revenue of nearly 7.5 BILLION  ! Now that is in addition to the fact that the stores these Americans shop in, the services these Americans pay for, the Houses these Americans buy, are all here. As in Here in America. So why would any American based publication proviide the public with biased information that is scewered against an American manufacturer, when they could just as easily, and a bit more honestly scewer ther bias towards an American manufacturer, and actually help America ?

It sickens me to read about GM and there PHEV's (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles). They had everyone beaten to the punch with EV-1. Anyone remember those "all electric cars"? Watch the documentry "Who Killed the Electric Car". Saturn hand made these cars out of a warehouse and the owners loved them! GM took them all back because they were leased NEVER SOLD, to the public, and crushed nearly all of them. They had a 10 year head start on all of their competition! Read about in in Wikipedia.com...... just sad.... And now they have the Chevy Volt... a car that is 10 years behind not the competition.... just themselves!!! Killing the EV-1 blackened their image..... taking the bail out money made them look even worse because they HAD the golden sceptor to rule the auto market during a time when everyone was ditching their suv's looking for something more fuel efficient and cost effective.

A whole "three" more miles.  You really shouldn't have. 

In my opinion the Volt is a dead short.  Want an electric car, a TRUE electric car that has NO GASOLINE TANK, then get a Tesla for about $10k more, will carry a family of five VERY comfortably, and go close to 300 miles on a charge.  Now THAT'S an electric car that you can drive and not worry about.  And guess what, they are made in the U. S. of A.   Go figure, private enterprise, no bailout money, not much media coverage, been in business for many years, and not a single car has caught on fire................​........

Hopefully GM went with a different battery manufacture otherwise it will be the Chevy Flame instead of the Volt. Another problem is $40k is still the base price which is way to high for the average consumer.  I could take that $40k and get 2 slightly used Pruises instead of one car. With that said it could be the reason why you don't see very many of them on the road or at least I don't.