Volt Updates: Read Between the Lines

GM’s PR office was in high gear yesterday reminding us that the Volt is still an active project over at Warren Tech Center. Make no mistake–it’s the biggest project at Warren and for that matter all of GM since the Cobalt. But if you read between the lines carefully, you’ll note that the releases are just out of step enough to confirm what we’ve already said here on CD: the Volt is not just a really big project, but it’s also on schedule. My sources over there have been pretty up front about it–everything in those releases is already in the bag. The lithium ion technology is moving forward and mules are out in the field. But don’t get too excited–things can get hung up for all sorts of reasons. And that is why Mr Lutz is asking the entire engineering staff to keep the Volt in the number one position. The only way to insure every possible solution gets examined is to keep the problem at the front of everyone’s mind. Think of it as a Lutz-It (R) note to Warren.

Read the GM press release. And Jalopnik has some Volt video that was snuck out of GM yesterday.