Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100731:15:58:00
Death's door and today it's revived and healthy. >> reporter: and while gm sees the volt as a better product, they've been down this road before. remember the ev 1, the electric car of the '90s, cutting-edge that fizzled. the chief engineer says they've learned from ev 1's short comings. >> it had the issue of at some point those batteries o r going to run out and if i'm nowhere near a plug, you're stuck. with the volt, i think we've really addressed all of those issues. >> reporter: while each charge will only drive the volt 40 miles, once the battery runs low, the gas engine kicks in. but th...