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Aug 11 2009, Marco Villa

It is true? Using the EPA standard for calculating miles-per-gallon, General Motors - which just came out of bankruptcy - put in the numbers and claims that its-soon-to-be released Chevy Volt gets 230 MPG in the city [presumably Highway will be around...

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