GM Takes On Local Hybrid Competition

US carmaker General Motors Company (GM) has announced it will launch its Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid model in Japan as soon as possible, which could be within the next two years. Sumito Ishii, managing director of GM Asia Pacific Japan, has previously said that Japan would not form part of the Volt's initial global rollout, but he now believes that 'one of the things the Japanese market wants is electric vehicles,' and the US giant is studying a 2011 or 2012

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