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The Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle that General Motors Co has to improve its image among consumers is on track to reach a rate unprecedented fuel economy of nearly 98 miles per gallon city, said Tuesday the company.

The chief executive of GM, Fritz Henderson, said the Volt could get a fuel economy rating of "three digits" for use in highway and city, according to a draft developed by the Environmental Protection Agency United States.

"The Volt is becoming very real and very quickly" Henderson said in a posting on GM's technical center.

The Volt, which will be launched late, next year is designed to perform 64 miles on a single charge of lithium-ion batteries. When the battery is running low, a small combustion engine turns on to recharge the battery and propel the vehicle.

Henderson said GM has engineers working on versions of the second and third generation of the Volt to reduce the costs of electric vehicles.

GM is in a hurry in making the Volt in the first mass hybrid vehicle in the U.S. market to shake its image associated with cars with high fuel consumption.

 
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