Show and tell: electric car version
…If you’re calling your car electric and it has one of these,” [Nissan USA boss Carlos] Tavares said, producing a car muffler from behind the podium from which he was addressing the crowd, “you’re only muddling the message. And you don’t want to make your job any harder down the road.
Great quote. The new Chevy/Holden Volt is not an electric car: there’s a petrol tank, there’s an exhaust system. It’s a hybrid, like the Prius. Slightly different philosophy driving the design, but it’s still a hybrid.