Volt plug-in hybrid is ‘No. 1 priority,’ GM says

Battery, design labs opened to journalists as part of ‘reality’ check

DETROIT – General Motors Corp showed off its progress in developing the highly anticipated Chevrolet Volt and detailed its road map for bringing the rechargeable car to the market by 2010, an ambitious timeline challenged by some rivals.

“We are moving with incredible speed,” Frank Weber, GM’s vehicle line executive in charge of the Volt, told reporters. “This project is not concept work. This program is not theory. It is reality.”

Weber said GM’s senior executives remain committed to launching the Volt by November 2010, calling the plug-in hybrid the “No. 1 priority project that we have now within GM.”

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