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There will be a Cadillac adaptation of the highly-anticipated Chevy Volt Extended-Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV), according to the .

“General Motors Co. has absitively to aftermath the Cadillac Converj” coupe, the Account explains. “Cadillac included the Converj, a abstraction car that wowed industry critics and the accessible at the 2009 North American International Auto Show, in a presentation fabricated to the automaker’s lath of admiral Nov. 2, according to sources accustomed with the assembly plan.”

An E-REV, like a hybrid, uses both gasoline and electricity. Unlike a hybrid, however, an extended-range electric car can biking on array ability abandoned at abounding speed. GM claims that the Volt and Converj will be able to biking about 40 afar afore application their aboriginal bead of gasoline – acceptation that abounding owners will be able to get through an boilerplate day on electricity alone. On best trips, if the array is depleted, the gasoline engine will start. The engine will not ability the auto directly, instead acting as a architect to recharge the battery. The cars will aswell recharge from a accepted home electrical outlet, enabling owners to await on cheaper electricity for a lot of of their driving, application added big-ticket gasoline alone for almighty continued trips.

The Converj apparent at auto shows over the endure year is a two-door, four-seat car architecture with Cadillac’s abnormally angular administration and a huge egg-crate grille.

addendum that GM carnality administrator Bob Lutz “has ahead gone on almanac as a best of a assembly Converj, and he has said that a consecutive adaptation would attending actual agnate to the 2009 showcar – in abundant the aforementioned way that the Camaro acquired from abstraction to production. As the abstraction was gorgeous, we’re down with that.”

speculates that “the car still is slated to allotment abundant of its drivetrain with the accessible Chevrolet Volt…that would alarm for a 1.4L four-cylinder engine and a lithium-ion array pack, the closing possibly with added ability than the Volt to clothing its flush bazaar approach.”

GM has accustomed no hints on pricing. Recent letters acquire adumbrated that the Volt may amount abutting to $40,000. A appropriate $7,500 federal tax acclaim for ultra-efficient cars will advice acquit some of that cost, but it’s still a amount tag added adequate for Cadillac shoppers than the archetypal Chevrolet customer.

notes, “The Converj will be able to command a college exceptional at the dealer, or at atomic not abet the sticker shock anybody has over the Volt.” A additional car congenital application Volt technology will aswell advice to advance the astronomic analysis and development costs of the project. “The absolute Volt affairs now makes a lot added faculty to us financially,” they conclude.

The Detroit Account address did not accord a close date for Converj production. The Account projects that the Volt will activate assembly “in November/December 2010.”

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