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I'm not arguing. I understand why some people could have one interpretation of this.

I remember asking in a meeting, "how will a customer react if the engine EVER comes on, for example to purge fuel". Guess what, it does.

And don't misinterpret, I don't know all the answers here. It's been several years since I was involved at all with the program. But did anyone think that since this is going to Europe as the Opel Ampera that enabling a certain level of autobahn performance might have led to this?

Here is the deal. GM could set the Volt up to NOT EVER be propelled by the ICE. If I understand things correctly, it would be possible for someone to "tune" this out. LOL couldn't resist that. It is a choice to optimize performance in some rare instances. How rare? I don't know. I guess that depends on where you live.

I understand your thoughts DG, and please don't misinterpret me, I'm not arguing with you or trying to say you are wrong. I'm just offering a perspective.

For me, this would be like the Camaro coming out with 304 HP and then later they said well it's actually 312 HP, and then everyone jumping up and down creating headlines that GM lied. But I'm not hung up on the pure EV bit but I understand why some people might be.