"Just plug in and drive"

General Motors is going to launch a new car called Volt. It’s made as an answer to Toyota’s Prius. The car works with electrical batteries (the name of the car comes from this quality) and it charges the energy in about three hours.
This fact is very important for the company, which has just celebrated its 100th birthday and last year lost the first place as the world’s most important automobile maker, because Toyota got the first place.
The company expects to launch the Volt in the last term of 2010, and there are already about forty thousand unofficial buyers. I think the car is a bit expensive (€40.000).


New words learnt:

Ace up - as
Sleeve - màniga
Scheduled - Previst

Article (story of the week)from Catalonia Today (Thursday 2nd of October, 2008)written by Joseph Wilson