Chevrolet Volt Water Trough Test

[Predpool]

love this car

[saucecakes]

if you touch the water you will get electrocuted.

[757K]

Uh? 

[Joeyland]

A 40k economy car, smart

[CHUUMPASS]

some people see anything GM related and instantly rush to conclusions or think that its somehow fashionable to bash it, the Volt is a very remarkable piece of automotive ingenuity and certainly more appealing than anything else thus far in that segment !

[MikaOwns]

is this the log ride?

[NormallyRight]

All this proved is that a surbaban can push itself and another car through deep water at high speeds.

[arteddie]

@NormallyRight Whats funny is who on earth would drive thro deep water like that in a car like that.

[NormallyRight]

@arteddie There'd be some asian chick that would attempt it.

[shototsu]

@arteddie I've seen situations like that several times while heavy rain, when the roads were flooded. This happens very often in some parts of Europe. Of course, you shouldn't drive your car trough such a deep water hole, but it may happen by accident.

[arteddie]

@shototsu well regardless to rain and floods electric cars are waste of time and money and people are fools if they buy one

[shototsu]

@arteddie *cough*...well, my company produces parts for electric cars and recharge stations, so I won't say electric cars are waste of money....*g*

Why are electric cars are "waste of time"? There are some really nice electric cars, like the E-Smart (which we have in our company for daily use) and Tesla Roadster for example, which is faster than a Porsche 911.

[arteddie]

@shototsu The Tesla dont make a nice V8 sound when u put your foot down and has some stupid charging time of like 16 hours, and it just looks shit. As for the E-Smart thats just as bad, as is just the normal petrol car. No space in the boot if you wanted to buy a piece of furniture. And lets say you wanted to go for a nice long drive across America. You would have to stop every 100 miles and wait 16 hours to charge it up. Oh but of course there wont be any charging points in the utah desert.

[shototsu]

@arteddie The Tesla doesn't make a V8-sound, because there is no V8 in it, of course. ;) I like the sound of a V8, too, as I like American muscle cars and own a Firebird by myself.

Well, the E-Smart was made for short business trips and not for the Utah desert or something extreme like that. You seem to live in Ireland. Are there any long distances and deserts? I sometimes lack of geographic knowledge, but I think there is none. ;-)

[arteddie]

@shototsu I just think that most people will prefer petrol cars. Trouble is with batterys is they cost alot to make and still need fossil fueled power stations to provide that electric, so why not just have a petrol car in the 1st place. And no i'm not from Ireland i'm from the UK and electric cars just do not work. BBC's Top Gear test drove a few cars to the seaside and a warning light came on saying that they will run out of electic in 7 miles and the nearest charging point is 40 miles away!!

[shototsu]

@arteddie As I watch your own videos now, I think an electric car won't be good for you anyway, because other drivers wouldn't hear you coming, when you drive your "own rallyes". Looks dangerous, dude :-)

[arteddie]

@shototsu haha, i drive according to the road conditions, so all safe and all. And electric wont be good cos no charging points and they take tooo long to charge up. No point saying oh im gonna pop out in the car in a minute to find you have no electric then having to wait 10 hours. And i'm sorry to say most other British people think exactly the same as i do. Electric doesn't work and hydrogen is the way foward

[shototsu]

@arteddie Yeah, hydrogen is a very interesting technology, too. Mercerdes Benz is developing for years, but I personally think they will fail, because of lacking fuel stations. :-(

Fast electric recharge will take about 2-4 hours, maybe faster, when the accumulator technology is further.

[arteddie]

@shototsu yeah but so far electric is failing because there is no where to charge up, and your not going to want to sit at a charging point at a garage for 4 hours. I remember one year one woman trying to drive her G-Wiz electric car through the snow in London. she got nowhere where as all these people in 4x4 drove past with no trouble at all. I think the best way is to refine the petrol and diesel engines to a point where as they use nothing at all. Either that or run our cars on chip fat

[discboston]

@arteddie You folks need to realize that you CAN charge the new ones anywhere, and you CAN use gasoline to off-set when the charge is gone. This really needs to be researched more before dumping on the technology.

[YodaPala]

Get a TDI diesel

This car sucks bear cocks

[chechnya]

@YodaPala Bear penii are actually on the smaller side. So are you saying this car sucks very little?

[YodaPala]

poop

[bored1980]

@YodaPala The average bear penis is around 3 inches long according to Google. Are you saying TDI Diesel drivers are comparable?

[camry2206]

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[camry2206]

hahahA BAD CARS ODER CAR PUSTDFW

[potterscotter]

this should have been done years ago. simply not impressed 

[kubruk]

wtf? a truck pushing the car?? you should retest that with colt driving itself and see if the engine will break or not.

[chevyhighrider]

@kubruk Take another listen to what the guy says in the video, he explains why it was being pushed.

[gz2g0k]

ya well ill be happy whenever they decide to actually bring this vehicle out....but im not holding my breath cause if i had from the beginning i would have died a long time ago....come on guys get a move on already or is the next release date another couple years from now....cause thats what u said before

[Vitaminous]

Why is it being pushed by a truck?

[Vitaminous]

They had videos of a Volt doing the water course by itself a while ago.

And this isn't an EV-only vehicle.

I just don't get it.

[Vitaminous]

Eh uh?

Okay but what

[rafaelmoreir]

To keep the speed all over the water. With that amount of water it would certainly aquaplane and/or lose much speed.

[MrSupertwo]

Why couldn't the driver of the Volt Simply Apply more acceleration to maintain the speed of water over the vehicle? Does it mean the car can't navigate through water that high?....

[rafaelmoreir]

That's a huge amount of water even to a full size truck to pass through at that speed.

Any car of that size would slowdown dramatically or even stuck without a help.

Observe at 0:42 that it "jumps" over the water, indicating aquaplaning. With the wheels off the ground, there's no way to keep the speed.

[MrSupertwo]

Thanks! You're right. The initial run shows much better how deep the water really is. On the 2nd run, at 0:42, the speed must be much quicker because the water level seems lower, I guess the vehicle is hydroplanning.

[runnermonkey]

Excellent