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General Motors is upsizing the engine for its next-generation Chevrolet Volt, but overall the plug-in hybrid’s powertrain package will get smaller and more efficient thanks to an aggressive re-engineering of what already was a groundbreaking system when launched five years ago.

“We took a clean sheet to Gen II – do it over, do it better,” Larry Nitz, executive director-transmission and electrification, says during a media backgrounder here this week at the plant that will build the Volt’s transmission. “I can’t think of any other product (at GM) where we had a complete re-do in five years.”
 



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