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Toyota to co-produce Volt with GM - Renamed the Jolt

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Danny, Apr 1, 2009.

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  1. alanh

    alanh Active Member

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    In other GM news, the new presidents of GM are Click & Clack.

    And BMW announced their energy-saving (for you) Magnetic Tow Technology which lets you magnetically hook onto the car in front of you so you can shut your engine off.
     
    #21 alanh, Apr 1, 2009
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    Rybold globally warmed member

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    Gotta love the BMW email address. [email protected] :)
    "BMW’s Head of Innovation, Dr Noitt Al"
     
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    This is one shocking news that fails to electrify my imagination and charges up of my potential (in)difference with GM's complete lack of electro-motive drive towards the new automobile age of electro-magneto power.
     
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    Even the name gave it away, Danny. Nice try, though.......
     
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    What's funny is today a friend of mine was reading character descriptions for Transformers 2 and found this character:

    Jolt, originally a Decepticon, but in this he's a good guy. He'll be switching into a Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid.

    He had a good line: "In the movie, they'll probably just keep talking about his character, but he'll never actually show up."
     
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    PeteSJCA 2013 Prius Plug-In Base in Winter Gray

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    I was completely fooled, even forwarded the article to friend that works at NUMMI to see if he knew anything about it yet.... ;-)
     
    #26 PeteSJCA, Apr 5, 2009
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    My son just told me all but one of the cars in Transformers 2 is a GM product. The one non GM car is a police type character who is a bad guy.
    I just thought they could have had a Chrysler that never properly transformed. Half way through transformation he would jam up and say, "back to the shop for me!"
    We deduced that GM pay for product placement.
     
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    That probably isn't too far from the truth. Although their minivans have much improved, folks I know with Chrysler 300 cars, and the Dodge Ram trucks, have terrible reliability
     
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    I was looking for last year's article, where there would be a new Prius model with a hemi engine or something, for people who wanted to look green and drive a Prius, but still have all the power they wanted.
     
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