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.
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 …