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2011 Chevy Volt Picture.

General Motors has apparent the car it is depending on to save it from a growing crisis in the automotive industry. At its 100th ceremony anniversary this morning, GM took the covers off of the assembly Chevy Volt for the aboriginal time.

Read all about the Volt in our all-encompassing preview.

The Detroit Free Columnist reports, “Viewed as potentially industry-changing technology, GM calls the Volt a range-extended electric vehicle. It is accepted to drive 40 afar on an electric allegation abandoned and about 400 afar application an onboard gas-burning architect to recharge its lithium-ion battery. The electric motor abandoned drives the wheels.” The car “will go into assembly at Detroit-Hamtramck in November 2010,” but alone “If GM and its ally can advance able abundant lithium-ion batteries.”

GM Vice President Bob Lutz collection a argent Volt assimilate a date in foreground of a accumulation of reporters this morning — admitting it wasn’t bright that the car he collection had a alive adaptation of the Volt’s electric drivetrain, which is still in development. GM admiral answered no questions about the car and provided few details.

Jalopnik reports, “Details are slim, but what we apperceive is this — GM calls it an Extended-Range Electric Car (E-REV), it has a top acceleration of 100 mph and 40 afar on all-electric based on the EPA city-limits cycle.”

Edmunds Inside Line reports, “In August, GM Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said that the Volt will acceptable amount in the mid-to-high-$30,000 range.”

The stakes for the car are high. Blogging reside from GM’s columnist reveal, the Ann Arbor Business Review comments, “Today will be remembered as either a celebrated day appearance a abstruse and abstracted axis point for the automotive industry – or the day the accumulated behemothic appear the car that bedevilled its following of a fuel-efficient angel for years.”

The car’s architecture has already breach the press.

Edmunds Inside Line calls it “electrifyingly bland.” Jane Nakagawa, a above Nissan planning official, tells Edmunds the Volts is “a huge disappointment.”

But Autoblog cautions, “Anyone who spends time photographing cars knows how harder it can be to accomplish them attending acceptable and how simple it is to accomplish them attending absolutely awful.” They add, “The car that GM formed out this morning as allotment of its bazaar …while altered from the abstraction is still actual attractive.”

Perhaps the a lot of acute catechism for consumers, however, is about the Volt’s amount to own. While the final amount hasn’t been revealed, a GM columnist absolution claims, “The Volt will amount about two cents per mile to drive while beneath array ability compared to 12 cents per mile application gasoline priced at $3.60 per gallon. For an boilerplate disciplinarian who drives 40 afar per day (or 15,000 afar per year), this amounts to a amount accumulation of $1,500 annually. Application aiguille electric rates, GM estimates that an electrically apprenticed mile in a Chevy Volt will be about one-sixth of the amount of a accepted gasoline-powered vehicle. The amount accumulation are even greater if charging during off-peak hours, if electric ante are cheaper.”

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