Vette Engine

At the risk of making this blog look like a GM ad, here's a quick video about how the Corvette racing team works.

Camaro Ad

I'm not sure whether or not it actually aired during the Superbowl, but it's a good commercial.

A follow up on the Volt, Prius

A few posts down there is a [brilliant] piece I wrote on GM’s Chevrolet Volt - you should read it. But I thought I’d follow up on that with a couple pictures from the Nickel Metal Hydride battery plant in Sudbury, Ontario. You can thank the tree hugging Prius driving liberals for this one…

The Electric What?

Nate told me to write about the Chevy Volt. So I did.

Right off the bat, chevrolet.com/volt is very misleading, if not a flat out lie:

“The 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Powered by electricity without being tethered to electrical outlets. It drives gas- and emissions-free for most commutes(6). But if life takes you a little further, as it tends to do sometimes, the gas-powered onboard generator can take you wherever you need to go, giving you up to 375 miles(9) of total range.

So you can just sit back and drive. Isn't that what cars are for?”

Sounds great right? Silent electric power with about the same range as a normal passenger car, and the occasional putter of a tiny gasoline generator. (Also in my opinion, a vehicle’s use as transportation and pleasure are equal. But I digress.)