General Motors yesterday revealed that its Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid car would boast fuel consumption of 230 miles per gallon in city driving making it far more efficient than rival environmentally friendly cars.
This record-breaking level of fuel efficiency for a mass-produced vehicle would probably enable the Volt to drive between New York and Washington DC, a distance of about 230 miles, on one gallon of petrol.
Fritz Henderson, GM's chief executive, provided the estimate as part of a drive to burnish the carmaker's image and win back customers since its emergence from a court-supervised restructuring early last month.
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