You Can't Make This Stuff Up...

Seriously. If I were writing this as fiction, no one would believe it - it's far too heavy-handed.

2 injured in battery explosion at GM Tech Center

WARREN, Mich.—Two employees were injured Wednesday in a lithium battery explosion that forced the evacuation of about 80 others at a General Motors Co. facility north of Detroit, authorities said.

The explosion occurred during extreme testing of an experimental battery in a test chamber at the Alternative Energy Center laboratory at the GM Tech Center in Warren, the automaker said in a statement.

Okay, so there was a battery explosion. At the laboratory where they make the batteries for the Chevy Volt. They're quick to claim that this was not a Volt battery - and if you buy that, well, you probably bought a Volt, too. Ah, the poor, plagued Chevrolet Volt - the Government Motors Wundercar, with $250K worth of taxpayer subsidies per vehicle, the one that sold so poorly (at nearly $50K per crappy mid-sized bland sedan) that they had to stop production, the one that caught fire, but we were told that it was perfectly safe by the NTSB, had an explosion in the same lab where Volt batteries were made...

Why am I reminded of this?

That is all.

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