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• GM considering all-electric Volt to meet Cali requirements? How about no battery?

  Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative , Green , Tech , Chevrolet , GM The hopes and dreams of electric car aficionados for a purely battery powered successor to the late, lamented EV1 may soon be satisfied. Or not. It all depends on ... you guessed it, the battery. However, the latest utterings from Maximum Bob have people buzzing again. Mr. Lutz spoke to EV site PetroZero the other day and intimated that a purely battery-powered variant of the upcoming Volt is a possibility, leaving the range extender on the cutting room floor. This is actually not a new idea and dates back to the earliest dates of the Volt program. During a media briefing back in December 2006 several weeks before the Volt's public release, the Volt team showed us images like the one above that included several different powertrain configurations. The premise was to demonstrate the flexibility part of E-Flex. This included a variant with a larger battery and no engine to charge it . This pure EV was described as something... Posted Apr 27 2008, 03:30 AM by Autoblog Filed under: Tech, Green, BobLutz, Bob Lutz, GM, Chevrolet, Hybrids/Alternative, Chevy, ChevyVolt, chevy volt, ChevroletVolt, chevrolet volt, chevrolet-volt, chevy-volt, chevy volt battery, chevrolet-volts, ChevroletVolts, chevy volt mules, chevrolet volts, ChevyVoltBattery, chevy-volt-mules, ChevyVoltMules