I am just afraid that, when enough battery capacity is hung on it, it will become so heavy and expensive that it won’t work financially.  I mean, how many hybrid Tahoes do you think they are really going to sell at $53,000?

My biggest concern is that they will take their eye off the prize of the Volt.  I hope that it will be as light and aerodynamically efficient as it needs to be to really make a world altering statement about fuel economy.

I fell in love with the Honda Insight.  Clearly, Honda pulled out all of the stops to make the first hybrid statement.  1850 lb, all aluminum, with a no compromise aero package.  I would have bought one, but my wife wouldn’t have such a small car.  If it had been a GM product, I would have bought one anyway for my business driving.  Clearly Toyota , and now GM, are a lot smarter from a marketing point of view to go with a 4 seater, but man the Insight was an engineering tour de force.

I only hope that the Volt will make a profoundly powerful statement, and allow US manufacturers to reclaim the technological high ground forever.

Bob Lutz seems to have acknowledged the absolute necessity of doing this.  I only hope that he can make it so.

Nasaman, not only would I buy a 34 mile Vue, I’d consider it at 25-30 miles, as that would cover 75% of my trips with that vehicle… and that seems more realistic than the 34 mile range!  Of course, we’re hoping to make the Volt my daily commuter (about 50 miles a day) and longer range weekend choice, with the Vue my wife’s daily driver, so that would just make things that much more attractive for us!