http://news.bostonherald.com/busines...osition=recent
. . . General Motors Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson defended the Chevrolet Volt before a House of Representatives subcommittee Wednesday morning, saying no customer was ever in imminent danger of fire and that the hybrid electric vehicle seemed to be under attack as much for political as practical reasons.
As advanced as the Volt is, Akerson said, pointedly, "We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag, and that’s what it’s become." He declared the hybrid electric car safe.
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I remember a decade of hybrid hostile claims often repeated by GM's Bob Lutz along with EU and other car makers. Eventually, having and driving a hybrid became associated in some minds as 'liberal' replacing the Volvo used in a 2004, anti-Dean commercial. So now in an election year, the House decides to look at the Volt . . . chickens coming home to roost.
Bob Wilson
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