Who says electricity is clean?
(NEWSER) - The Chevy Volt has a secret: It’s not run solely on electricity, it has a gas engine that, under some circumstances, directly moves the wheels. “I know. When I heard this, I ran about the house shrieking, ‘Well, then, the Volt is not an ‘extended-range’ EV but a series-parallel hybrid!’ I’m sure you did too,” quips Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal . OK, that’s not his real complaint. His real complaint is this: “Why bother with all this complicated doohickery?” More»
