{"id":540020,"date":"2010-04-22T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=7118"},"modified":"2010-04-22T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:45:45","slug":"the-rumored-chevy-volt-electric-minivan-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/540020","title":{"rendered":"The Rumored Chevy Volt Electric Minivan is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7119 aligncenter\" title=\"chevrolet_volt_mpv5_01\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/chevrolet_volt_mpv5_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit, it&#8217;s hard to get all hot and bothered about a minivan&#8230; but there&#8217;s a reason they have been a perpetually popular option for decades now. They&#8217;re practical, functional people movers with gobs of cargo space, comfort and convenience. Ever since the original Dodge Caravan defined the segment back in the 80&#8217;s, families the world over have swarmed to them in droves.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, on the fuel economy front they&#8217;re a bit lacking. Which is why, as a dad of two (who likes to subject his family to the great American roadtrip every now and then), a green car nut and a supporter of the resurgence of the American automobile, I can honestly say I <em>AM<\/em> all hot and bothered by Chevy&#8217;s unveiling of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/20\/chevy-planning-volt-minivan\/\" >previously rumored<\/a>, Volt-based, extended range electric minivan\/crossover concept called the &#8216;Volt MPV5&#8242; at the Beijing Auto Show today.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/22\/the-rumored-chevy-volt-electric-minivan-is-real\/#more-7118\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=bTDg7kq1Y_k:hREti1llKuA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=bTDg7kq1Y_k:hREti1llKuA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=bTDg7kq1Y_k:hREti1llKuA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=bTDg7kq1Y_k:hREti1llKuA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=bTDg7kq1Y_k:hREti1llKuA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=bTDg7kq1Y_k:hREti1llKuA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=bTDg7kq1Y_k:hREti1llKuA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=bTDg7kq1Y_k:hREti1llKuA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/bTDg7kq1Y_k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit, it&#8217;s hard to get all hot and bothered about a minivan&#8230; but there&#8217;s a reason they have been a perpetually popular option for decades now. They&#8217;re practical, functional people movers with gobs of cargo space, comfort and convenience. Ever since the original Dodge Caravan defined the segment back in the 80&#8217;s, families the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}