Dear Pat, you are a brilliant cartoonist, but this time you are quite wrong. The Chevy eVolt is actually a hybrid, just like the Prius, but with a larger battery pack which allows it to run 40 miles on battery alone. It has a gasoline engine, coupled through a generator and electric motors, which can run it on the highway quite well. GM, in their wisdom, has elected not to call it a hybrid, to differentiate it from the Prius.
To Pat Oliphant:
Dear Pat, you are a brilliant cartoonist, but this time you are quite wrong. The Chevy eVolt is actually a hybrid, just like the Prius, but with a larger battery pack which allows it to run 40 miles on battery alone. It has a gasoline engine, coupled through a generator and electric motors, which can run it on the highway quite well. GM, in their wisdom, has elected not to call it a hybrid, to differentiate it from the Prius.