Charity auction

The long wait is over. At least, it soon will be. At an event at General Motors’ Detroit Hamtramck facility which was streamed live on the Internet, everyone from government officials and GM board members down to the factory workers responsible for manufacturing the extended range electric car came together to celebrate the first production Volts leaving the assembly line. But along with the sound-bytes, self-congratulatory back-patting and obligatory speeches was the news that Chevrolet planned to auction off Volt number 000002, the second ever production Volt to be made. Driving the...