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The Volt was a much better idea. It could be an all electric car—at any speed—for 50 miles or so.

Agree, the Volt seemed like a good idea. I don’t know the inside story of GM discontinuing that car. I imagined it was corporate dysfunction.

I owned two of them. They were great. Worked flawlessly.

My first generation bmw i3 is exactly this. Later models got much bigger battery packs.