Yesterday’s Tesla test drive video got us so excited about electric cars that we scoured the internet for news on the ole’ Chevy Volt. So whats going on over there? CNN Money reports…

General Motors Corp. will begin road testing its Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid in the spring of next year and remains on track to produce the rechargeable car by late 2010, a senior executive said Thursday. As the race to bring a mass-market, rechargeable electric vehicle to the market heats up, GM’s global product chief Bob Lutz said he expects to have next-generation lithium-ion battery packs ready for the vehicles by October this year.

And more details on the Volt continue to trickle out. Unlike gasoline-electric hybrids, the Volt will be designed to allow short trips (about 40 miles, apparently about how far the average person drives each day) powered entirely by the electric motor - using a battery that can be charged through an electric socket at home.

GM is racing rival Toyota to offer the first mass-market electric vehicle.