The car will also capture energy from braking like a traditional hybrid and feature an on-board engine that will be used only to send power to the battery.
The Volt marks one of the first attempts to adapt lithium-ion batteries, lithium battery packwidely used in electronics gear such as laptop computers, to power a car, although Toyota is racing ahead with its own work on the same technology.
GM has been testing battery packs supplied by a subsidiary lithium battery packof Korea's LG
