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Chevy Volt Pays a Visit to A123 System Headquarters
Justin Hyde of the Detroit Free Press wrote an article reporting that A123 employees got to drive an early Chevy Volt prototype. The web rumor mill of course has expanded this into a highway driveable car.
Information from reliable sources indicate that yes indeed A123 employees did get to view the Volt firsthand, but they did not drive it, it was only driven by a GM handler.
As well, the car was the same concept car that gets shown at the Auto Shows, it is not a newer prototype, and does not have a Li-ion battery pack in it.
Lets face it, at the time of my interview with Bart Riley, cofounder and CTO of A123 one month ago, a working battery pack prototype did not even exist.
Sorry to disappoint the hopeful, but, I’m betting we do see a next generation prototype by year end. Also, purely speculative, but the Detroit Auto show in Jan. 2008 seems like it might be a nice place to show one.
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July 17th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Just in : GM’s head of Opel says that an Opel version of the E-Flex will be shown in Frankfurt auto show in September 2010, and the car will be put on sale later that year.
This is the first “official” GM announcement that E-Flex cars will be on sale during 2010. My belief is that the Opel will be the last of the three E-Flex models to go on sale. No mention of a diesel range extender engine.
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