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The Chevrolet Volt is approaching a major milestone as General Motors prepares to build the first production prototypes, cars that "look, taste, smell and feel" and, of course, drive like the range-extended electric vehicle GM promises to put in showrooms by the end of next year. The General will start building the first of these cars, known in the industry as integration vehicles, on June 1 and they'll be tooling around within a couple of weeks. So far all we've seen are Malibu and Cruze test mules. The cars we'll see next month will be the real deal. "These will be the first vehicles to both look like the production Volts and be powered by the Voltec propulsion system," spokesman Rob Peterson told us. read more »
