Bob Lutz gives an interview about the Volt. An interesting point he makes is that he doesn’t mind that people think it’s ugly. In many cases he said that he’ll sacrifice functionality for form but in the case of the Volt you can’t do that. Lots of people buy the prius because it looks different, [...]

General Motors has “essentially finished” designing its first plug-in hybrid car, the Chevrolet Volt, and says it will have production-ready prototypes within 10 days. The automaker still has considerable work to do on the car’s lithium-ion battery and other technology in the two years before the Volt is scheduled to go on sale, but completing [...]