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GM gives Volt a jolt; could hit roads by 2010.

Publication: Automotive News
Publication Date: 07-MAY-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: GM gives Volt a jolt; could hit roads by 2010.(General Motors Corp.)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Richard Truett, Jamie LaReau

General Motors is moving quickly to get the Chevrolet Volt out of the laboratory and into the showroom.

Since the Volt's successful January debut as a concept car at the Detroit auto show, GM has taken major steps to develop a production version of the plug-in hybrid car.

"We are doing the production engineering on the Chevrolet Volt,'' says Larry Burns, GM's vice president for r&d. "It is a formal product program within our company, just like the Chevrolet Malibu is a product program.''

Last week, Burns listed the steps in the program:

* GM has allocated funds for development.

* Engineering work is under way.

* The development team has...

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