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It’s not all bad for General Motors. Sure, they may be busy selling off the family silver, but the trophy cabinet isn’t completely bare thanks to the What Car? Technology Award for the Vauxhall Ampera. What car? you’d be justified in asking, as the Ampera (in America it’s called the Chevrolet Volt) isn’t due to commence production until 2011 at the earliest.
In handing over the award, What Car? described GM’s Voltec series hybrid system as “simple, should be effective.. it’s pretty future proof, too.” Er yeah, should be.
Look, on paper the Volt is a very exciting car. But when no-one’s even seen it working yet, let alone driven it, dishing out the awards seems somewhat premature. This is an extremely complicated machine and big question marks remain over GM’s perilous financial state, the anticipated 40000 dollar cost, the fall in oil prices, battery longevity…
In related news, the NCN Award For Most Impressive Future Transport Design goes to… Emmett Brown, for his flux capacitor DeLorean! Applause!
Emmett can’t be with us tonight, as he’s currently visiting ancestors in the year AD85.
