we choose to memorialize the soon-to-be-departed Chevrolet Volt. An obituary buried in corporate euphemisms is a whimper of an end for what was once their technological flagship car of the future.

The Volt delivered more EV range than a Toyota Prius Prime, up to 53 miles in the second generation. Chevrolet built the ... to be dragooned at a dinner with car journalists and engineers.

The Chevy Volt and the Voltec hybrid-electric system (which can power the car for 40 miles on zer0-emissions electric power before switching over to a conventional hybrid system) will begin ...