Chevrolet is earning their tag line as the new revolution. This is the car I am waiting for. Not only does it have sleek styling, but the idea that, not only does the car achieve 50 mpg, but on most days, I wont even use the gas at all. That is what I call a commuter car.

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If it meets specifications, it will charge up overnight from any standard electrical socket. It will go 40 miles on a charge. Then a small gasoline engine will ignite. The engine’s sole job will be to drive a generator, whose sole job will be to maintain the battery’s charge—not to drive the wheels, which will never see anything but electricity. In generator mode, the car will drive hundreds of miles on a tank of gas, at about 50 miles per gallon. But about three-fourths of Americans commute less than 40 miles a day, so on most days most Volt drivers would use no gas at all.