For those of you who have been living under an auto-industry rock, the Chevy Volt is GM's attempt to save itself from its horrible, gas-guzzling, short-sighted strategic decisions of the 1990's and 2000's. It's an all-electric vehicle slated to be released to the general public in the 2011 model year.
You can see the pic of it above, and read more about the release at GM's centennial celebration here.
And if you want to read more about the volt itself, check out GM's official Volt website here.
In general, I'm pretty excited about the Volt. It's exactly what GM should have been doing 10 years ago. All-electric cars are much more efficient uses of energy than gas. Now, it can be argued that the source of their electricity isn't 100% clean, and that's true. But it's not 100% dirty, which can't be said for gasoline. And the problem of changing over our electrical generation system to all-renewables is being solved, and will eventually happen.
Electricity is a much smarter solution for cars than gasoline or hydrogen, because it's clean and there's already an existing distribution network (vs hydrogen, which would need a whole new, costly network created). The main problem is how quickly the batteries can be charged, which can make cross-country road trips prohibitive. But since like 99% of all daily trips made by a car are less than 300 miles, that's really not an issue for the majority of humanity.
So... w00t electric cars!
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