The first Volt from GM was also a plug-in hybrid, but it was built in 1980
By feedback@highgearmedia.com (Eric C. Evarts) Chevrolet’s Volt wasn’t the original, or even the first Volt from GM. Electric Auto Corporation receives that distinction for their car built in 1980, at the height of America’s second gas crisis. It built the Silver Volt, a plug-in hybrid based on a contemporary Buick station wagon—16 years before the …read more