I jokingly taunted him that Toyota would lose first place if they did not dump the Prius parallel technology and go with the GM Volt serial plugin design.  He got into the spirit and we bet lunch next year over my argument.

We'll see.  

GM's habit of showing off various Volt concept shells with hydrogen fuel cell instead of the serial plugin hybrid once again raises "Who-killed-the-electric -car" suspiscions.

In that scenario, as you no doubt remember, one arm of GM was promoting the EV-1, while the main part of GM was trying to kill it.  corporate schizophrenia?  Or was there a method to their madness?

There was a method.  To kill the green car legislative standards in California.  Maybe the Volt is only that?

Not really, as with the eV-1, the engineers that designed the originmal serial plugin volt, really know they have a world beating, climate restoring concept.

40 miles on battery alone.  More than covering most average daily tripping for most drivers.  Think conversion of used cars though.

Not new cars from GM or toyota.  They all seem dead set against the 200+ average mpg serial plugin hybrid under any name.  300+ mpg with half the horsepower of the sportscar like Volt.

Small businesses all over the uSA will be converting cars to this design if this energy revolution takes hold.  But will it?  or will humans migrate and die off in the millions to mitigate GHG climate disaster?  Probably a little of both.

Along with renewable energy and conservation.  The real political question is how much of the GHG saving activity will be used to save lives and forced migratory induced world wide mass pychosis.  War, famine, and disease.