It was a hybrid car that relied on both batteries and a generator to produce electricity for its motors.

这是一款依赖电池和发电机发电的混合动力汽车。

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By contrast, the Chevrolet Volt's battery has less than half that range, but it carries a petrol generator which gives the car another 480km.

与此不同，雪佛兰Volt汽车的电池只能提供一般的行程，但它内置有汽油发电机，可提供另外480公里的行程。

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The car will have a lithium-ion battery with a petrol-powered engine that drives a generator to provide electricity when you drive beyond its 40-mile battery range.

这辆车将配备锂电子电池，当行驶距离超过电池所能提供的40英里后，汽油引擎将驱动发电机来提供电力。

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Then,the car automatically switches to a gas-powered engine, acting as a generator that can power through 483 more kilometers.

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For those two reasons, the EV-1 project was cancelled, and when better battery technology DID finally become available, the Volt was built as an extended range car, with an on-board generator so that you will NOT get stranded like someone driving a Nissan Leaf.

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GM's vice president for research and development, Lawrence Burns, says consumers have to start thinking of their car as a power-supplying appliance as well as a means of transportation. (A hybrid car, for example, might be an alternative to an emergency generator during an ice storm.) Meanwhile, GM is endorsing Huber's thinking with plans to introduce plug-in versions of the Chevrolet Volt and a Saturn vue crossover by 2010.

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Rob Peterson and Britta Gross of GM, both integral to the Volt program, dare me to guess when the car switches from battery-only to using the gas engine as a generator, and I totally miss it.

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