GM CEO: Volt Will Be Profitable

GM CEO Dan Akerson tells Fortune that the second generation of the Chevy Volt will be cheaper to make and profitable. Looking to the future, GM hopes to have a half million cars on the road with some form of electrification by 2017.

May 1, 2013

GM CEO Dan Akerson tells Fortune that the second generation of the Chevy Volt will be cheaper to make and profitable.

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