"The honest answer is I can't imagine that," Opel development leader Rita Forst said at a conference in Munich. Opel, GM's Germany-based European division, sells its own lightly modified version of the Volt extended-range EV. The Volt was the first mass-market plug-in hybrid, and while its absolute sales volumes don't make it a big seller for GM, it serves as a halo car for the automaker.
GM and PSA, the parent company of France's Peugeot and Citroen brands, entered into a partnership earlier this year that saw the Michigan automaker buying a 7 percent share in PSA.
While it's still too early for any fruits of the partnership to have hit the consumer market, the tie-up has caused waves of change for BMW and Ford, both of which have seen their existing collaborations with PSA change dramatically after GM's substantial investment.
