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Songs have been written about so many subjects. This article talks about a song written for the chevrolet volt. It provides explanation and motivation.

Note that another song was written for the volt in 2009, sponsored by GM (yes ?). You can find information about it http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/07/chevy-volt-the-song/#continued

Introduction
The chevrolet volt is an extended range electric car. This car is special because of its ability to run mostly electric (using zero gas). Unlike pure electric vehicule, once the battery is depleted, a gas generator turns on, providing range typical of a gas vehicule. Electric car have taken off slowly because of their limited range and the difficulty to recharge the battery quickly (or at all) while traveling. Many potential buyers are put off by range anxiety.

For years (or decades), electric cars have been the future: Hopefully better batteries, better chargers, and network of chargers would have made electric cars viable. So everyone was waiting. But the volt changed this: It delivers now an effective way to reduce your gas consumption radically. So Jacques Gélinas wrote a song about it, in the hope of getting more people interested in the subject.

Motivation
Electric cars have been the future for so long that people are failing to realise that they are now a reality. After spending countless hours explaining how cool they are, explaining how much fuel is saved and most importantly, that the future is now (The time has come), the idea of a song to grab attention came. And the second idea was to link the song with a comprehensive page pointing to various reference material. So people can get facts about electrical cars (and the volt).

The electric car is the medium
It is the way to harness other kind of energy.

Alternative energy
All the alternative energy, while useful to produce electricity, can't be installed on a car.

The grid
The grid is already in place and can support electric cars.

Battery production and recycling
Do we have enough material to produce the batteries. Debunk the fact that batteries won't last and will create lots of polution.

Shifting the problem elsewhere
Debunk the fact that electric cars are shifting the problem elsewhere: Producing electricity in a large facility is way more efficient than in a car. More efficient and less poluting.

Stats about electric cars and the volt
Shows interesting statistics about electric cars and the volt. How many miles were driven in a volt.

Electric cars are exciting
Shows that modern electric cars (including the volt) are exciting. They are cool to drive. They are in no way minimalist. People still think an electric car is a barebone, cramped, un-sophisticated car.