General Motors VOLT is a HOAX.

Auto makers reluctantly and supposedly agree that plug-in Electric cars (EVs) are needed to lower oil dependence and reduce climate change.

The big problem, they claim, is the battery: expensive and short-lasting Lithium is not yet practical for EVs.

The Toyota RAV4-EV, last sold in Nov., 2002, uses production large-format Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries, and is still running today on the same battery packs. All successful EVs with over 100 miles range and lasting longer than 100,000 miles used the cheaper, proven NiMH.

Up until this month, the NiMH patent licensing rights were controlled by Chevron's unit COBASYS, and NiMH was not allowed for plug-in cars. Chevron has sold control of NiMH, and now it's time to resume production of full-sized EVs, such as the RAV4-EV, EV1 and HondaEV.

There are hundreds of NiMH plug-in EVs running today, treasured by the few Americans allowed to buy them; most are powered by rooftop solar systems, not coal. Most EV drivers use the money saved from NOT buying gas to pay for their own solar system, making the solarization of America self-financing.

The only loser is Big Oil.

It auto companies were serious, they would release proven NiMH EVs. All the metals in the batteries can be recycled after they wear out, perhaps after 200,000 miles. Nickel is non-toxic, relatively abundant, mostly used in monel propeller shafts, stainless steel, and surgical instruments.

While research is fine, we need a resumption of production of for-sale EVs, such as the RAV4-EV, using proven NiMH batteries.

The VOLT is a hoax, designed to fail, using the wrong batteries. GM is killing the EV all over again, just as they released the EV1 with bad batteries. How transparent; who is GM trying to scam, with the same old battery fraud? No one believes GM, the most incredible failure in economic history -- actually arrested their own customers instead of selling to them.

Once, we drove on American electrons in American made cars: GM confiscated and crushed the cars, driving us to TOYOTA, which was happy to sell us the RAV4-EV until Chevron sued to stop production.

How did Chevron get the patent rights? Bought them from GM on Oct. 11, 2000, that's how!

So GM and Chevron (Standard Oil of California) colluded to kill the EV, by interdicting the batteries.

Now, GM is engaged in the VOLT-hoax. Same old same ol.