Little Electric Lie

It seems that GM wasn't exactly truthy about the 'all electric' Jesus Car that was being called, well, the Jesus Car.

According to JALOPNIK.com...

The Chevy Volt has been hailed as General Motors’ electric savior. Now, as GM officially rolls out the Volt this week for public consumption, we’re told the much-touted fuel economy was misstated and GM “lied” about the car being all-electric.

In the past, and based on GM’s claims, we’ve gone so far as to call the Volt GM’s “Jesus Car.” And why wouldn’t we call it that? We were told the Volt would achieve 230 MPG fuel economy and would always use the electric drivetrain to motivate the wheels — only using the onboard gasoline engine as a “range extender” for charging the batteries. It now turns out that not only were those fuel economy claims misleading, but the gasoline engine is actually used to motivate the wheels — making the Volt potentially nothing more than a very advanced hybrid car and pushing some automotive journalists like Scott Oldham at Edmunds.com to claim “GM lied to the world” about it.

Of course General Motors has made a response to these revelations... which can be found here.

But it begs the question - can it be called the Jesus Car anymore? How about we call it John the Baptist car?

The only real solution to get off the electric car is obvious - nuclear. Okay, it's a joke, but I'm not kidding... what, like bicycles and trolleys or a robust rail option aren't just as preposterous a suggestion?