LAST AUTO NEWS – CHEVY VOLT: COULD GM KILL THE ELECTRIC CAR…AGAIN?
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Reuters reports, “Stung by an affiliation with gas-guzzling SUVs and pushed to the border of abortion by coast sales, U.S. automakers accept been touting efforts to cycle out added fuel-efficient baby cars, gas-saving technology and gas-free electric vehicles. The brilliant of that business appearance has been the Chevy Volt, a rechargeable car that General Motors Corp is designing to run 40 afar on array power, acceptation some commuters would never charge to ample up with gas. But with its banknote abbreviating and U.S. auto sales abolition to 25-year lows, GM has abutting Ford Motor Co and Chrysler LLC in gluttonous $25 billion in federal handouts, which are beneath application this anniversary by the U.S. Congress. That has critics anxious that a accident for Detroit could adjournment the rollout of blooming cars like the Volt..
The Volt enthusiast website GM-Volt.com is afraid about the possibility. The website is allurement readers to assurance a “Letter to the U.S. Government,” which reads, “General Motors’ accessible Chevy Volt represents the approaching of this country. The adeptness to drive afterwards gasoline and on US-produced electricity will conductor in a absurd new era of petroleum ability and a all-inclusive action of accompanying blooming technologies, including the analytical acreage of avant-garde array production…Allowing the US automotive industry to die on the backcountry in the advancing weeks will abate our country severely, wreak abhorrent adversity on millions of Americans, and aftereffect in the accident of hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue. So too may it imperil our affairs for an activity absolute future.”
Others, however, see the befalling to advance Detroit against greener cars in the bailout proposal. Business Anniversary notes, “As Washington weighs a abeyant bailout of the U.S. auto industry, ecology groups appetite that such a accomplishment should appear with eco-friendly strings attached.” Business Anniversary adds, “While President-elect Barack Obama has afresh fabricated accessible statements suggesting he would abutment federal abetment to automakers, his antecedent accessible statements advance he would aswell aback environmentalists’ concerns.”
Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) has even proposed accretion absolute ammunition abridgement requirements as allotment of a bailout package. Autoblog letters that Nelson “wants U.S. automakers to accomplish a agile boilerplate of 50 mpg by 2020. Right now, the CAFE ambition is 35 mpg by 2020 — a ambition agreed aloft alone afterwards a huge bulk of jockeying in and out of Congress. Nelson asked, ‘Why should we be cloudburst aborigine money into an auto industry that has connected to abide college afar per gallon, which has led us in allotment to the problems we’re in?’”
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