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Amazingly, it's been 9 years since I first wrote about the Chevrolet Volt concept and since then I drove numerous development prototypes of the first-gen model

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Amazingly, it's been 9 years since I first wrote about the Chevrolet Volt concept and since then I drove numerous development prototypes of the first-gen model. But last week was actually my first extended driving experience with a Volt.

2016 Chevrolet Volt – Second Time’s The Charm – Sam’s Thoughts
As I sit down to write these words about the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, I just realized that it has been almost exactly 10 years since Jon Lauckner and Bob Lutz sat down and sketched out the basic architecture for what they hoped would be a truly practical plug-in car. In the days and weeks that …

2016 Chevrolet Volt – Second Time’s The Charm

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2016 Chevrolet Volt - 37 of 37

As I sit down to write these words about the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, I just realized that it has been almost exactly 10 years since Jon Lauckner and Bob Lutz sat down and sketched out the basic architecture for what they hoped would be a truly practical plug-in car. In the days and weeks that followed, Lutz and Lauckner gathered up the core of an engineering and design team that would eventually bring the first-generation Volt to production four and a half years later. A decade on from those first discussions, the second-generation Volt is now on sale and it’s vastly superior to the original in every way.

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