Posted on January - 24 - 2012
General Motors CEO says politics played role in Volt probe
General Motors CEO Dan Akerson. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
General Motors’ chief executive plans to tell lawmakers that he believes politics motivated a U.S. government investigation of battery fires in Chevy Volts.
In testimony prepared for delivery at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Dan Akerson said it appears the Volt became, perhaps unfairly, a surrogate for election-year politics and commentary on GM’s business and Obama administration policy.
President Barack Obama has heavily promoted electric vehicles like the Volt, and his administration oversaw a U.S. government bailout and bankruptcy restructuring of GM in 2009. Full Article…