LAST AUTO NEWS – REPORT: VOLT-BASED CADILLAC CONVERJ HEADED FOR PRODUCTION
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One year afterwards the Chevy Volt launches, General Motors will body a additional Extended-Range Electric Vehicle based on the aforementioned technology. Motor Trend reports, “General Motors has accustomed assembly of the beauteous Cadillac Converj, its extended-range electric-powered auto based on the Chevrolet Volt’s Voltec architecture, a well-placed antecedent says. GM assumption wants the car on the alley by 2011, authoritative it a 2012 model..
The Converj, an upscale, two-door affluence car, will reportedly use a slight aberration of the Voltec drivetrain that admiral the Chevy. MT reports, “The drivetrain would be agnate to the lithium-ion array backpack and 1.4L four-cylinder engine to be acclimated in the Chevy Volt, although GM is acceptable to add array accumulation to accomplish the Cadillac a added able car.” The agreement would reportedly accredit to Converj, like the Volt, to biking up to 40 afar on array ability abandoned afore starting its gasoline engine. Motor Trend adds that a Voltec Crossover Utility Vehicle may aswell appear, beneath either a Buick or GMC badge.
Autoblog, however, sounds a agenda of caution. “The beyond barrier block to architecture the Converj is money – or a abridgement thereof,” they note. “Unless some affectionate of accord is addled amid the Treasury and Energy Departments to acquiesce GM to tap into ATVM loans, there will not be abundant banknote in GM’s coffers to body the Converj.”
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