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[Hindsight]

JBC previously said:

For accurate information on the Volt I recommend this site. GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site

Thats funny...it was GM themselves that created the confusion and have since stated that the Volt does (well sort of, kinda, in a way) recharges the battery.

This is from the source (Edmunds Inside Line)

Turns out, that wasn't at all true.

The erroneous information provided by Chevrolet yesterday was today contradicted by John Lauckner, GM's VP for Global Program Management, who says that the 1.4-liter gasoline engine does in fact send whatever surplus power it makes to the lithium-ion battery. The gas engine will never come close to recharging the battery to its operational maximum, however.

According to Lauckner, the battery will receive power from the gas engine when load conditions are light (as in, not under acceleration). When the battery comes back up to a certain level of charge (that figure is still the subject of development at GM), the gas engine can cycle off and the Volt can run for an unspecified period on the stored battery power.

This strategy of cycling the gas engine on and off is diametrically opposed to the information from Chevrolet officials who said that once the 40 miles or so of electric-only range was used up, the gas engine would run until the car could be plugged back into the grid for a full recharge.

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