http://www.freep.com/article/20101219/BUSINESS0101/12190589/1331/business01/GMs-Volt-electric-car-more-than-a-head-turner

By Chrissie Thompson; Detroit Free Press ~ Dec 19, 2010

On its first road trip last week, from a Detroit factory to consumers' garages near New York City, the Chevrolet Volt made a lot of people happy.

In Mitch Seaton's eyes, the Volt saved the Detroit-Hamtramck plant where he and his wife, Carmen, have worked for 13 years to support their family of six. They never saw a plant more upbeat than when it started building the first extended-range electric car -- a bit more than a year after GM's plunge into bankruptcy.