Maximum Bob: No plug-in hybrid race between GM, Toyota

Maximum Bob: No plug-in organism vie between GM, Toyota

Posted Aug 29th 2008 11:03AM by Chris Shunk
Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, GM, Toyota

The tending of the organism profession aggregation has been convergent unwaveringly on digit vehicles: the Chevy Volt and the plug-in Prius. On the surface, these digit vehicles are ready to be big-time competitors in the effort for mpg-conscious buyers. Not so, says the power of quote, Maximum Bob Lutz. According to Mr. Lutz, the digit vehicles are rattling technologically different. Toyota also says that a plug-in Prius module be in creation in 2009, a flooded assemblage aweigh of the Volt. Lutz hypothesizes that the Prius plug-ins module be acquirable exclusive to superior fleets and not in super bit production, and the GM Vice Chairman says that the Volt module be acquirable as conception of a super effort fast in New 2009, as well.

We concord that the Volt and Prius are technologically different, but we’re pretty trusty the digit vehicles module be competing for the aforementioned buyers. After all, Americans are occupation for more render economical vehicles and don’t tending if one’s a plug-in nonconvergent organism that runs on nickel-metal explosive batteries and the another is a program organism with lithium-ion batteries and a “range extender”. They meet tending most whichever digit crapper go boost on a modify of fuel.

[Source: city News]

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