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Obama administration to buy first 100 Chevy Volts

Detroit Free Press, by Justin Hyde Posted By: fishmonger- Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:21:36 GMT The first customer for the Chevrolet Volt also happens to be its largest investor '' the Obama administration. The White House said today that the government will "purchase the first 100 plug'in electric vehicles to roll off American assembly lines" before the end of the year. The Volt, which GM describes as an extended range electric vehicle, is the only model that fits that description. GM began building Its first production Volts at the Detroit'Hamtramck plant today. President Barack Obama has set a target of putting one million plug'in hybrids on U.S roads by 2015.

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