Got my notice from GM & NHTSA. No recall necessary. However, because of all the negative crap coming from Faux News viewers, GM upgrade the cage surrounding the battery. It is optional to upgrade. However, the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety (which gave the Volt a 5 star rating after the 1 fire), says the ins. rates for upgraded cars have to be less than those not. My insurance rate will rise if I don't get it. It's free. It's only 1 day. Guess I'll get it.
did anyone hear about the recall for this car. you could posibly die from the car exploding. i dont remember why but i think it was like battery overload is likely to happen
@xBloodfatherx Nahhh just media exaggeration, ask an owner of one, no recall. Don't you just love how the media has to get viewers by exaggerating an issue, sucks I know.
@1MeanMike Half my driving is on the highway, 97% is in electric mode because I only drive 40 miles a day.... If you never charged it, and only purposely used gas, the EPA rated it 37 mpg which people get.
@1MeanMike I'b betting you mean 1000 miles without plugging in? if so, maybe around 40mpg or 50, but of course not plugging it in at night would just be wasting the technology that you bought.
@SwPiotrek car corporates should just change to diesel. vw does it for their cars. and i mean like every car and truck. we have plenty of coal for 200 years or something. and diesel is much more eficient and better for environment.
@xBloodfatherx Where I live diesel odly is hard to find in our county, even in Los Angelos so we tend to stay away from diesel cars because of the difficulty of finding fuel at stations. But we do have it, just hard to find em. Especially while out of your town and you don't know the are, and why the hell is it soooo expensive over regular gas when it doesn't need to be?? that's bullshit.
this technology existed decades ago. Oil companies didnt want them spread... Today they cant control it anymore. Facebook, Tweeter and stuff have revolutionised the way people communicate... We dont need oil or nuclear power! Lets use green enegry today. It is easy. Dont be afraid of changes
5) GM calls it an "Extended Range Electric Vehicle", not just an electric vehicle. That the difference between this and the EV1. When blurting out blatant negativity, you should include the entire name, not just the part that makes the argument more in your favor.
4) Yes, a Tesla goes 255 miles on a charge. But it's over $100,000. Compare apples to apples. I'm sure you could tell GM "Hey, here's an extra $60,000. Make my Volt go 255 miles per charge." That was a useless comparison and argument.
3) It costs, at current (Sept. 2011) electric rates, about $1.45 to fully charge the battery, which gets you about 40 miles. By no means is this the same as fuel costs, unless you are comparing 1988 fuel rates.
2) It is NOT a hybrid. A hybrid has a gasoline engine and tranmission, and runs on gas all the time, with help from an electric motor to help it get better fuel mileage while accelerating. You don't plug a hybrid in. The engine charges the battery. The Volt will run on electric ONLY until it depleats to 35% battery life, then the generator starts up to charge the battery while it continues to run on the electric motors.
Since so many of you just fly off the handle blurting out whatever, based on zero facts, I decided to post some useful info for you.
1) The reason it can only go 35 miles on a charge instead of 100 like the leaf is because it needs room, both physically and for weight measures, for the gasoline generator. The leaf can go 100 miles, then it's dead. The Volt can go unlimited miles with the back-up generator. Try driving cross country in a Leaf.
I believe this car is after all a good buy, I spend $90 a week in gas, so $360 to the oil companies " which are not american " + I contaminate the atmosphere, I much rather have that car and make $360 - $400 monthly payments to american companies to be honest + help our mother earth by not using that much gas. look like I'm gonna get a volt :)
Lithium batteries shouldn't be that expensive. They don't look so expensive to make. It may be the making of Lithium.I opened one a short time ago and it looks like aluminum foil inside. However they cost $4.00 at Home Depot. I think batteries should be rechargeable because you won't have to make so many causing pollution. Consumers can use a small Lead Acid Battery to charge their Lithium Battery for the radio when they go to the beach.
this car is a fucking hybrid you stupid chevy fag boys. this is an insult to real electric cars like the tesla that can actually go 300 miles without any oil. this is an over budget piece of shit
What a piece of shit! Why don't you just start building golf carts and spare the American taxpayer the indignity of having to bail your sorry asses out again?
1:30 "Driving 400 miles, my mpg average was 39, and that was driving at freeway speeds." That is PATHETIC. I've got a 2002 SAAB 9-3 Viggen and when I travel only on the freeway, doing freeway speeds, I average 35-40 mpg. AND MY CAR HAS THE NORDIC STAGE 3 KIT WITH 300 HORSES. I paid $16K for my car three years ago (all nordic stage 3 hardware and software included). Government Motors will NEVER produce anything worth while.
@MrMagicpants1 Yeah, General Motors were controlling SAAB in 2002 but now they're Government Motors. Keep in mind that when the government gets involved into any business, they tend to always run that business into the ground. When you charge up this Volt, you'll be decreasing your gasoline expense by a few hundred dollars per month and INCREASING your electric bill by the same few hundred dollars per month. Gasoline prices fluctuate yet electricity prices always increase.
@valereydyachuk Oh, I see. Totally agree with you in regards to government..... Thanks for the response! Personally, I've never been a big fan of GM products. Have always loved the Saab though. It's the only GM model I would have purchased.
If I had a solar powered home, I think I could think of getting a pure electric car instead of one that still uses premium gasoline to charge batteries and must run from time to time so that the gas engine does that go bad.
I like the technology, but the car is about 20,000 dollars higher than I'm willing to pay. That being said, is this car really more efficient? 20,000 dollars will buy a lot of gas.
@Gilbertoballesteros Ummmm..... she said 39 mpg, not 29, and that was over the highway on a 400 mile trip. Plus, they were not saying 180 mpg at any point. she did mention 90 mpg in mostly electric mode and from Oakland to LA. try cleaning out your ears maybe?
@acres90 I'm no expert, but I was reading up on the Nissan Leaf and read about how they were available via lease programs only and they were non-renewable leases. Apparently the vehicles were then studied after real-world use and (so says the report from Edmunds) the vehicles were destroyed. Can't sweart to the accuracy, but that may explain the disappearance of the EV-1 .
no, you know what's funny? how some people's best argument against this is that there is no point in driving something that will still pollute... ?? so you would rather do nothing and keep driving our regular gas guzzling vehicles??? or do you expect everyone to just give up cars for bicycles, because that is obviously going to happen(sarcasm)
& Nothing has changed since when??? things are ALWAYS changing.. That's the best part about technology. Things don't just magically happen coughbiblecough
It's funny how all of these green enthusiasts talk about the environment when a massive amount of pollution of the air & water is happening down in Bolivia and Chile to actually extract the lithium from the ground. The people down there are left with nothing, not even clean water to drink and all of these idiots in America don't see that. Just because this thing doesn't produce the emissions of a standard auto doesn't mean that it doesn't pollute. Open your eyes. Nothing's changed.
ARE YOU ALL FUCKING STUPID? remember the blackouts in Cali a few years ago, because 2 many people were using their AC? What the fuck do you think is gonna happen to the cost of electricity, and the strain on the electric grid. Here's an Idea... instead of spending $40,000 on this, why not buy a small efficient car for around $15,000, and go plant $25,000 worth of trees. Really? Your really gonna spend $25,000 in the name of economy? Are you all FUCKING STUPID?
American cars and their unsophisticated looking "chrome" trim...ugh. Hey GM and Ford, i've this great idea, theres these car manufacturers called Ferrari and Lamborghini...oh, i know, hard to pronounce...but yes, i know you've never heard of them cause you'd never design the cars you do having heard of them unless you were complete gits, but check out their cars sometime.
another piece of shit by chevy!! And also why would you get an "all" electric car when you have to plug it in EVERYDAY electric is expensive you might as well buy a 4 cylinder car if you want high mileage but if you wanna save your life then buy a v8 so you can excape quickly
@xBloodfatherx Not really if you compare the amount of gas' energy cost it would take to power your home versus what you pay from you utility power company. Your homework is to look up who much energy is in one gallon of gasoline and add all those gallons it takes to equal what you use at your home base on how you are billed by your utility company (monthly, or many months). The energy number uses the units "KWH" which stands for kilowatt hours. The initial cost of the car is high though.
@xBloodfatherx I do not want an electric car. I just hate the fact that people make incorrect statements of saying that it costs more to charge an electric car's battery than it does to use gas which is false. People should do the math and do research before coming to false conclusions. Gas has 33.4 KWH per gallon ans costs $3.40 a gallon. My electrical energy cost is 7 cents / KWH. At 33.4 KWH that is $2.38 which is cheaper than gas for the same energy. Also the Volt is not an electric car.
Those familiar with the history of GM, would know that GM had previously made electric cars back in the 90's with similar technology. However they took them back and crushed good condition electric cars without explanation. I can't leave all the blame to GM because Toyota and Ford also developed similar models, but those met the same fate. The name of the car was the EV1.
If GM had kept the EV1 (100 mile range fully electric car), where would electric cars be today?
Volt looks like _ _ _ _! $40,000 really? For that pile of junk. Just bought a 2011 Optima for under $25,000 LOADED and its huge compared to that tiny thing! 24mpg city and 34mpg hwy. You don't have be a math wiz to run the numbers and figure out the economics.
$7,500 Tax credit, Government is giving my money a way on this pile! NOBAMA!
@viper3636dr Well... it's not necessarily a fact that gas won't last forever. We're currently developing bacteria that excrete crude oil that emits less carbon than the feedstock used to feed the bacteria, which would be something like sugar cane or some agricultural waste. It's pretty cool.
Hmmm.... for less then half the money I can buy a Honda civic that gets better gas mileage, has more room is more reliable,and gets 10% better gas mileage....Hmmm....
Gee, I wonder why they stopped making electric cars 90 years ago? Oh well, if a 7500 dollar tax credit is a good idea why not give the cars 100% tax credit? Oh, that's silly isn't it. 7500 smart, 100% dumb dumb dumb :)
I average about 42 miles per day so I should get around 400 mpg....I'll be charging it with my surplus solar electricity from my net-zero solar power home. This is all part of a 10 year plan to wean off of oil....
@MrEnergyCzar YYes,yes,yes. And the government can print enough money to make everyone a billionaire but that's not really creating wealth and your not really saving energy. It takes a pretty good imagination to ignore all the massive energy that it takes to make the car, batteries (that wear out!), more energy and toxins growing the silicon that made the solar cells... Go read some magazines and newspapers from the 1970's and look at all the goofy programs the government (we) funded.
Good job on the video... my commute is 10 miles each way... should expect about 200mpg commuting. Electricity in our area is 8.7 cents per KW... it will cost less than a dollar a day to commute.
It is only the price that kills the Volt. It is the sad victim of the old saying: The marketability of any product is inversely proportional to it's stage of development. By the time you get one to market, it is twice the price you imagined. If the Volt was $23K like a Prius, I'd buy one without test-driving it. I already have an electric car and a Prius... but I'll buy the Ford Focus Electric if it hits the correct price.
The Fusion hybrid is a pretty good car. The problem is that US designers calculate that Americans would rather have more power and a little better MPG. It feels like a hot 6, but it's a four cuz it's a hybrid. Nope, You buy a hybrid to get killer MPG, not a little MPG boost and more power. A well-made big 4 gas-only can get 38 MPG. Ford is doing good things..and the Ford Focus Electric is the one to watch.
The price kills this car. 39 MPG on a 400 mile highway trip? WTF? A 2010 Prius
will do 55MPG all day at 67 mph. It does 60+MPG in the city. $33,500? A $28,500 Prius III will drive itself. Yea, auto lane-centering, auto vehicle spacing behind and ahead- and auto parallel parking. It's IQ is about 3X this still-born beast. Plus it has been de-bugged over 10 years. You'll be the de-bugging test team for the Volt..
Best of luck to GM, but the Ford Focus Electric is the winner of this race.
@Yavor54 Most people have a commute that is less than 40 miles there and back, and at that range you get no gas used and nearly 100 mpg, which is why the volt is awesome
This sux...is just another Prius...an .American Prius....you want a plug in hybrid buy a Fisker Karma. The engine is use as a electric generator( in Karma)....less polution..less consumtion than a Volt....
Dull style. GM has no lue re design. They back off from anything half decent for fear of alienating dull people. Dull people buy GM and anything different scares them.
@DroidNoid Who said this is a 11 secs quarter-mile car??? This is a regular vehicle...0-60 in 8.8 sec is way better than many econo-cars in the market now....
About the total cost of ownership and the battery cost...well, that is a good question and we must do a research on it.
@fredmagic09 You are correct about this, but that was before the EPA changed how they calculate MPG for plug-in hybrids. By the old standard, GM was correct, but not anymore. It was obviously just a marketing gimmick, but it did its job.
@summt5697 If a person is only driving 50 or fewer miles 90% of the days, why is it so terrible if the Volt doesn't have the most outstanding gas mileage? On those days when all or most of the mileage is all electric the Volt will be very economical. In California PG& E plans to charge as little as 5 cents per kWH for nighttime E.V.charging. At that rate, you’d spend 60 cents to cover 40 miles in a Volt.
@mikeniz583 and how much money you pay on gas, EVERY MONTH?? Next time you say something, make sure you evaluated it very well before saying it.
If you just use this car in the city and you drive a daily distance enough to always use the car in electric mode and never let the batteries to get fully discharged, you will NEVER NEED TO BUY GAS.
I am not a Chevy lover, but I must say GM did a good job with this car...it is way better than a crappy Prius.
Opel, a German company designed the vast majority of this car. The volt is based on the 2006 Opel Flextreme/Ampera concept, which was changed by Chevy to use gas instead of diesel, and to look more appealing to American Buyers.
Opel already showed of a concept for a possible successor to the Volt called "Opel Flextreme GT/E".
i can buy an equivalent compact american/german/korean/italian/indian/chinese car for under $1000 and get similiar or better milleage to your civic...but that is irrelevant to those who can AFFORD and WANT the Volt. Early adopters always pay a premium, but that does not mean the platform isn't viable.
price is not just a reflection of value...we have luxury brands selling for markups well beyond what i would pay for them..yet people still buy them.
@Dalit5 well, hey, the way electric companies produce electricity isn't a consumer problem. driving more efficient cars is one way WE (everyday people) can improve things. Lobbying for different sources of electricity is another problem all in it's self. And it is surely not the problem of the car. Don't twist things.
But as long as the electricity is generated by burning fossil fuel, these technologies actually dry up resource faster than conventional cars, cause, first, electricity is to be generated, then it should be transported & it is lost in transmission. Then, they need batteries which again demands mining.
So, these cars actually eats up 3 times more resources than the conventional technology. If the electricity is generated from solar cells, wind, tidal waves, then, it is somewhat better.
@shivrajvishnu i mean the whole point of the car is for it run on electric that's why it's all electric motor. it only has a gas tank in there for long distances. i don't understand how you can say this car drys up resources? If these cars replaced SUV's there would be more fossil fuel.
@KE61090 - It is a great technology which removes the direct dependency on fossil fuel, cause it runs using electric power. But how the electricity is generated matters, if it is generated by burning coal/natural-gas/gasoline then it eats up more resource.
@shivrajvishnu Internal combustion engines are so inefficient, and large electrical generating stations, even ones using coal, are so efficient, that electric vehicles have a much lower carbon footprint than any conventional production car. Even considering transmission loses, conventional cars can't touch electric vehicles for efficiency
hybrids been there for long time.. The technology has been there waiting for someone to ignite and make things happen. That technology have been vanished time after time because money and other reasons.. So you never know GM will take Chevy Volt back and not build again like the EV-1 and 2..
This is EV-1 V2. So you could have been driving cars very much like this one for over 10 years now. But you americans idiots killed it. The future was 1999 not today. You/we lost a decade to SUVs and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to secure access to oil wells. We need the power of the sun, wind, water and geothermal energy, not oil.
How reliable is this car.. from a company who made really bad cars for the last 20 years?? Please wait for 5 more years to see how this car falls apart and lined up at the dealers for major repairs and replacements.
The Price of the Chevy Volt is only $42,000. Even better, our government is giving us a rebate of up to $7,500. That makes the car only $32,000. That is a banging bargain!!! GM says they are not profiting from the Chevy Volt, something that I would do if I was already making hundreds of millions of dollars. That is generous of them.
Cut the price in HALF, or nobody but idiots will buy it. If you really want to save money, you'd buy a cheap car (sub 13K) that gets 34 mpg. To be honest, it looks like a piece of junk to me. I will not buy it, end of story.
I'd much rather have a Nissan leaf... its cheaper to buy.. I'm assuming cheaper to maintain... looks better... probably built better... But in the mean time I'll just stick with my gas car and let all the antsy rich people buy the electric cars first and see how they turn out.
this crap has too many hard to use buttons. honda has a lot too, but they are easy to read, and are easily read, this has too many buttons and are hard to see. i mean it took 5 fucking minutes to find out how to turn the radio on!!! on the hondas it is simple and straightforward
@izeitchik@izeitchik Hey, the car does have a tail pipe. It has to have one because there is a gas engine in the car, so it needs to have exhaust for when the gas engine is running. If you look at this other video review of the Volt, at around 30 seconds in, the guy shows you where the tail pipe is hidden.
@MrMustang210 It isn't a hybrid vehicle. The engine doesn't drive the wheels, the engine only acts as a generator to make electricity to power the electric motors which drive the wheels. This electricity that is generated also goes to maintaining a constant 20% charge state in the battery once it has been depleted to that level. General Motors even says so themselves, it is a range-extending electric vehicle.
stupid ass hybrid lol 20 miles on electric charge i rather get the cheaper nissan does 4 times the range and its cheaper and no gas at all also im waiting for the tesla model s 300 pure electric aston martin looking like for same price of volt fuck gmc they had the chance with the ev1 and soldout to oil now ther fucked sorry tesla going big now
Just think- If...If global warming was indeed false....you say oil is "natural as water" and, "...does nothing to harm anyone". Were you asleep during the entire three month Gulf Oil disaster?! Did you miss class the day Peak Oil was explained? Have you ever sucked air ( rode a bike, ran or just plain stood on a sidewalk ) and breathed carbon monoxide and diesel emissions? - When net dorks "expound" upon issues they have zero clue about - well - it just makes them look like..well, a net dork.
global warming, global cooling, climate change and whatever it is called now are all false. Oil is as natural as water. Burning said oil over hundreds of years will do nothing to harm anyone. This car will not sell because nobody wants it, and others like it..(such as caskets on wheels...small cars). Energy is going to go crazy in price due to "the oil companies are evil" crowd. Goodbye energy independace...hello astronomic prices.
@chevymaxman Did you got to elementary school, at least? I have never seen anybody saying such stupid thing like what you said in that comment....I really invite you to stand in front of the tail pipe of a car with the engine on, and breath all the smoke comming out....Then you will tell me if burning oil is harming you or not....
Uranium and Plutonium are as natural as water, but it doesnt mean they are not harmful, same applys to the OIl...Smartass.
paying $41K for a car with the interior materials of a sub compact chevy cruze is down right crazy. But I'm sure the car will sell well but not to the mass public.
@venusfan Depends which state you buy in: in Oregon the Volt runs $28500 after state and federal rebates - and saves $2000 in gas and maintenance yearly, for fleet driving. For a five year purchase with resale, its equivalent sticker price after running cost savings is around $13500 dollars - it's a bargain!
@venusfan How does that make sense? The car will sell well but not to the mass public? That's the only way things sell well. Do you mean sales will match production volume?
Got my notice from GM & NHTSA. No recall necessary. However, because of all the negative crap coming from Faux News viewers, GM upgrade the cage surrounding the battery. It is optional to upgrade. However, the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety (which gave the Volt a 5 star rating after the 1 fire), says the ins. rates for upgraded cars have to be less than those not. My insurance rate will rise if I don't get it. It's free. It's only 1 day. Guess I'll get it.
ra5928 2 weeks ago
did anyone hear about the recall for this car. you could posibly die from the car exploding. i dont remember why but i think it was like battery overload is likely to happen
xBloodfatherx 2 months ago
@xBloodfatherx Nahhh just media exaggeration, ask an owner of one, no recall. Don't you just love how the media has to get viewers by exaggerating an issue, sucks I know.
WDPlumbing 2 months ago
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that is a WICKED sick vehicle, buddy! I bet it takes a lot of effort to maintain it.
1925chevyforsale 3 months ago
I want to know what it gets when you travel 1000 miles in it.
1MeanMike 4 months ago
@1MeanMike My first 1,100 miles I used 1 gallon.
MrEnergyCzar 4 months ago
@MrEnergyCzar Was that on the highway though?
1MeanMike 4 months ago
@1MeanMike Half my driving is on the highway, 97% is in electric mode because I only drive 40 miles a day.... If you never charged it, and only purposely used gas, the EPA rated it 37 mpg which people get.
MrEnergyCzar 4 months ago
@1MeanMike I'b betting you mean 1000 miles without plugging in? if so, maybe around 40mpg or 50, but of course not plugging it in at night would just be wasting the technology that you bought.
WDPlumbing 2 months ago
you get 400 mpg s that shitty ethanol gas sits in your tank/ fuel lines/ intake and breaks down and gums up/ fouls/ ruins everything
BowHunt1229 5 months ago
@BowHunt1229
Volt's engine is premium only. No Ethanol for this!
somerandomvideo 2 months ago
@somerandomvideo .....all gas nowadays has 10% ethanol......
BowHunt1229 2 months ago
I like this car. But still diesels are better.
When car corporates will make a hybrid diesel?
SwPiotrek 5 months ago
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@SwPiotrek
"I like this car. But still diesels are better."
You need therapy.:)
NearAbbeyRoad 3 months ago
@SwPiotrek car corporates should just change to diesel. vw does it for their cars. and i mean like every car and truck. we have plenty of coal for 200 years or something. and diesel is much more eficient and better for environment.
xBloodfatherx 2 months ago
@xBloodfatherx 50% cars in europe has diesel engines.
SwPiotrek 2 months ago
@xBloodfatherx Where I live diesel odly is hard to find in our county, even in Los Angelos so we tend to stay away from diesel cars because of the difficulty of finding fuel at stations. But we do have it, just hard to find em. Especially while out of your town and you don't know the are, and why the hell is it soooo expensive over regular gas when it doesn't need to be?? that's bullshit.
WDPlumbing 2 months ago
can the volt run in E90 gas? enthnol
silver4883 5 months ago
this technology existed decades ago. Oil companies didnt want them spread... Today they cant control it anymore. Facebook, Tweeter and stuff have revolutionised the way people communicate... We dont need oil or nuclear power! Lets use green enegry today. It is easy. Dont be afraid of changes
whatever04811 6 months ago
5) GM calls it an "Extended Range Electric Vehicle", not just an electric vehicle. That the difference between this and the EV1. When blurting out blatant negativity, you should include the entire name, not just the part that makes the argument more in your favor.
Talon450 6 months ago
4) Yes, a Tesla goes 255 miles on a charge. But it's over $100,000. Compare apples to apples. I'm sure you could tell GM "Hey, here's an extra $60,000. Make my Volt go 255 miles per charge." That was a useless comparison and argument.
Talon450 6 months ago
3) It costs, at current (Sept. 2011) electric rates, about $1.45 to fully charge the battery, which gets you about 40 miles. By no means is this the same as fuel costs, unless you are comparing 1988 fuel rates.
Talon450 6 months ago
2) It is NOT a hybrid. A hybrid has a gasoline engine and tranmission, and runs on gas all the time, with help from an electric motor to help it get better fuel mileage while accelerating. You don't plug a hybrid in. The engine charges the battery. The Volt will run on electric ONLY until it depleats to 35% battery life, then the generator starts up to charge the battery while it continues to run on the electric motors.
Talon450 6 months ago
Since so many of you just fly off the handle blurting out whatever, based on zero facts, I decided to post some useful info for you.
1) The reason it can only go 35 miles on a charge instead of 100 like the leaf is because it needs room, both physically and for weight measures, for the gasoline generator. The leaf can go 100 miles, then it's dead. The Volt can go unlimited miles with the back-up generator. Try driving cross country in a Leaf.
Talon450 6 months ago
How could they have failed so badly! Why can't they offer 100 miles like the Leaf, THEN have gas?
JasonGorr 7 months ago
GM defines the hybrid Volt an 'electric car' and insist its NOT a hybrid they call it erev which is 'electric car'.
then what do you call the EV-1 then ?
diesel-electric train runs 100% on its electric motor 100% of the time but they don't call it electric train
emforty2 7 months ago
I believe this car is after all a good buy, I spend $90 a week in gas, so $360 to the oil companies " which are not american " + I contaminate the atmosphere, I much rather have that car and make $360 - $400 monthly payments to american companies to be honest + help our mother earth by not using that much gas. look like I'm gonna get a volt :)
opensourceinfo 7 months ago
Chairman Zero's big piece of shit! Even Hitler made a better car!
StompingRabbits 7 months ago
Lithium batteries shouldn't be that expensive. They don't look so expensive to make. It may be the making of Lithium.I opened one a short time ago and it looks like aluminum foil inside. However they cost $4.00 at Home Depot. I think batteries should be rechargeable because you won't have to make so many causing pollution. Consumers can use a small Lead Acid Battery to charge their Lithium Battery for the radio when they go to the beach.
tnguyen318 7 months ago
this car is a fucking hybrid you stupid chevy fag boys. this is an insult to real electric cars like the tesla that can actually go 300 miles without any oil. this is an over budget piece of shit
chicodavid1211 7 months ago
This car is a political RIP-OFF!!!
TheBadAssKiller 8 months ago
well this is still a hybrid.. in not a electric car till that petrol engine is gone
GayBoyRunning 8 months ago
What a piece of shit! Why don't you just start building golf carts and spare the American taxpayer the indignity of having to bail your sorry asses out again?
StompingRabbits 8 months ago
Fourth largest brand, do they mean Chevy or GM! Maybe she meant Chevy! Because GM is number two
nashville1510 8 months ago
I wonder.. Does the car get hot because of the battery?
Over-heats like computers or other things using batteries?
MeatySD 8 months ago
@MeatySD it has a cooling system to keep it a normal temps
urbanmuscle21 8 months ago
1:30 "Driving 400 miles, my mpg average was 39, and that was driving at freeway speeds." That is PATHETIC. I've got a 2002 SAAB 9-3 Viggen and when I travel only on the freeway, doing freeway speeds, I average 35-40 mpg. AND MY CAR HAS THE NORDIC STAGE 3 KIT WITH 300 HORSES. I paid $16K for my car three years ago (all nordic stage 3 hardware and software included). Government Motors will NEVER produce anything worth while.
valereydyachuk 9 months ago
@valereydyachuk Sorry. Just out of curiosity....... Doesn't GM make your Saab? You said 2002 right? They bought Saab in 1989....
MrMagicpants1 7 months ago
@MrMagicpants1 Yeah, General Motors were controlling SAAB in 2002 but now they're Government Motors. Keep in mind that when the government gets involved into any business, they tend to always run that business into the ground. When you charge up this Volt, you'll be decreasing your gasoline expense by a few hundred dollars per month and INCREASING your electric bill by the same few hundred dollars per month. Gasoline prices fluctuate yet electricity prices always increase.
valereydyachuk 7 months ago
@valereydyachuk Oh, I see. Totally agree with you in regards to government..... Thanks for the response! Personally, I've never been a big fan of GM products. Have always loved the Saab though. It's the only GM model I would have purchased.
MrMagicpants1 7 months ago
I like it.
MrPwnag3 9 months ago
Sick of my tax dollars being abused in this manner.
Someone explain to me how you get a "Miles per gallon" figure while running on battery only?
Whole lot of BS in that there.
You don't get to include 'pre-charged' battery energy in your 'MPG' rate.
In real world driving after the battery charge is depleted it only gets about 29 MPG
Anubis78250 9 months ago
@Anubis78250 A customer of mine bought one! he regrets it like there's no tomorrow ! What an embarrassing piece of crap ! and this is no B.S !
vid009 9 months ago
Great, another taxpayer subsized handout to GM.
siuwed 9 months ago
why do they ALL look like this? awful, over used type of design. they should've used a design similar to the Camaro. that's my opinion.
THEGUITARGOD808 10 months ago
@THEGUITARGOD808 They like to make ugly cars. No one knows why.
djsufferthing 9 months ago
@THEGUITARGOD808 A sexy fuel efficient car? Thats crazy talk!!
MrPwnag3 9 months ago
can you recycle lithium batteries?
1357924680the 10 months ago
@1357924680the No but you can distroy them.
unholynationmorons 9 months ago
If I had a solar powered home, I think I could think of getting a pure electric car instead of one that still uses premium gasoline to charge batteries and must run from time to time so that the gas engine does that go bad.
KeepingModern 10 months ago
I like the technology, but the car is about 20,000 dollars higher than I'm willing to pay. That being said, is this car really more efficient? 20,000 dollars will buy a lot of gas.
TheTuber124 10 months ago
I'm not in love with the idea of rebates. Make the price of the car what is going to be with rebates, when I drive it off of the lot.
TheTuber124 10 months ago
29 mpg!!! what happened to the 180 or what ever big # they wer giving years ago!!!
Gilbertoballesteros 10 months ago
@Gilbertoballesteros Ummmm..... she said 39 mpg, not 29, and that was over the highway on a 400 mile trip. Plus, they were not saying 180 mpg at any point. she did mention 90 mpg in mostly electric mode and from Oakland to LA. try cleaning out your ears maybe?
obhatti 10 months ago
This tech is very exciting. I'm a motor head at heart, but this just blows me away! It's really a step in the right direction.
cmwhetst 10 months ago
ok am i the only one who remembers or what, but whatever happened to the EV-1?
acres90 10 months ago
@acres90 I'm no expert, but I was reading up on the Nissan Leaf and read about how they were available via lease programs only and they were non-renewable leases. Apparently the vehicles were then studied after real-world use and (so says the report from Edmunds) the vehicles were destroyed. Can't sweart to the accuracy, but that may explain the disappearance of the EV-1 .
Madisonwest764 10 months ago
no, you know what's funny? how some people's best argument against this is that there is no point in driving something that will still pollute... ?? so you would rather do nothing and keep driving our regular gas guzzling vehicles??? or do you expect everyone to just give up cars for bicycles, because that is obviously going to happen(sarcasm)
& Nothing has changed since when??? things are ALWAYS changing.. That's the best part about technology. Things don't just magically happen coughbiblecough
LocoDiablo22 10 months ago
Sorry, the Chevy Volt is almost double the cost of a Prius with even Gov't subsidies. This thing will be a huge failure.
LOLitsJono 10 months ago
It's funny how all of these green enthusiasts talk about the environment when a massive amount of pollution of the air & water is happening down in Bolivia and Chile to actually extract the lithium from the ground. The people down there are left with nothing, not even clean water to drink and all of these idiots in America don't see that. Just because this thing doesn't produce the emissions of a standard auto doesn't mean that it doesn't pollute. Open your eyes. Nothing's changed.
cockyhemi 10 months ago
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ARE YOU ALL FUCKING STUPID? remember the blackouts in Cali a few years ago, because 2 many people were using their AC? What the fuck do you think is gonna happen to the cost of electricity, and the strain on the electric grid. Here's an Idea... instead of spending $40,000 on this, why not buy a small efficient car for around $15,000, and go plant $25,000 worth of trees. Really? Your really gonna spend $25,000 in the name of economy? Are you all FUCKING STUPID?
rhettly 10 months ago
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Thank You Nissan and Japan - Our hope and prayers are with you
Ah and yes we love our LEAF - NO EXHAUST PIPE OR GAS STOPS
Quiet - Fast - Efficient - Relaxing - Roomy - Easy
Stylish - Futuristic - Quick Charge at dealers?
We Bought it ! We REALLY Love it !
Butchmedic 11 months ago
Piece of shit.
H1TMANactual 11 months ago
American cars and their unsophisticated looking "chrome" trim...ugh. Hey GM and Ford, i've this great idea, theres these car manufacturers called Ferrari and Lamborghini...oh, i know, hard to pronounce...but yes, i know you've never heard of them cause you'd never design the cars you do having heard of them unless you were complete gits, but check out their cars sometime.
8Libertine8 11 months ago
American cars are not unsophisticated. It depends what American car you are talking about. You make no sense.
heartlessvietboy 11 months ago
@8Libertine8 Have you ever seen a Corvette? No? Ok shut the fuck up, thanks.
MrPwnag3 9 months ago
This isn't even an all electric car...its a hybrid...disinformation
rehndawg 11 months ago
@rehndawg I own this car and it's not a hybrid
JasonSchwerin 11 months ago
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@JasonSchwerin Thank You Nissan and Japan - Our hope and prayers are with you
Ah and yes we love our LEAF - NO EXHAUST PIPE OR GAS STOPS
Quiet - Fast - Efficient - Relaxing - Roomy - Easy
Stylish - Futuristic - Quick Charge at dealers?
We Bought it ! We REALLY Love it !
Butchmedic 11 months ago
Its a Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle. = )
heartlessvietboy 11 months ago
another piece of shit by chevy!! And also why would you get an "all" electric car when you have to plug it in EVERYDAY electric is expensive you might as well buy a 4 cylinder car if you want high mileage but if you wanna save your life then buy a v8 so you can excape quickly
xBloodfatherx 1 year ago
@xBloodfatherx Not really if you compare the amount of gas' energy cost it would take to power your home versus what you pay from you utility power company. Your homework is to look up who much energy is in one gallon of gasoline and add all those gallons it takes to equal what you use at your home base on how you are billed by your utility company (monthly, or many months). The energy number uses the units "KWH" which stands for kilowatt hours. The initial cost of the car is high though.
EETechs 11 months ago
@EETechs well have fun with your " all" electric car and when your battery dies in 2 months don't come
Crying to me about paying 7 grand on a new battery
And if you look up how much energy electric plug in cars use you'll find out.
xBloodfatherx 11 months ago
@xBloodfatherx I do not want an electric car. I just hate the fact that people make incorrect statements of saying that it costs more to charge an electric car's battery than it does to use gas which is false. People should do the math and do research before coming to false conclusions. Gas has 33.4 KWH per gallon ans costs $3.40 a gallon. My electrical energy cost is 7 cents / KWH. At 33.4 KWH that is $2.38 which is cheaper than gas for the same energy. Also the Volt is not an electric car.
EETechs 11 months ago
jajajaa another stupid chevy car!!!!!
my prius can go 440 milles whith a tank
avg 47-50 mpg and i dont have to plug it every single night!!!!
p.d. i only pay 26000 whith fees
300jacc 1 year ago
@300jacc My motorcycle gets 70 Mpg. I only paid $2000. :)
MrPwnag3 9 months ago
Wow I can watch and text at the same time
talk2cbasok 1 year ago
Those familiar with the history of GM, would know that GM had previously made electric cars back in the 90's with similar technology. However they took them back and crushed good condition electric cars without explanation. I can't leave all the blame to GM because Toyota and Ford also developed similar models, but those met the same fate. The name of the car was the EV1.
If GM had kept the EV1 (100 mile range fully electric car), where would electric cars be today?
earthmagekl7 1 year ago
Volt looks like _ _ _ _! $40,000 really? For that pile of junk. Just bought a 2011 Optima for under $25,000 LOADED and its huge compared to that tiny thing! 24mpg city and 34mpg hwy. You don't have be a math wiz to run the numbers and figure out the economics.
$7,500 Tax credit, Government is giving my money a way on this pile! NOBAMA!
Citrusharvester 1 year ago
The fact is gas wont last for ever, this is just the start. With more research these cars can be expected to improve. Love the new improvments.
viper3636dr 1 year ago
@viper3636dr Well... it's not necessarily a fact that gas won't last forever. We're currently developing bacteria that excrete crude oil that emits less carbon than the feedstock used to feed the bacteria, which would be something like sugar cane or some agricultural waste. It's pretty cool.
djsufferthing 9 months ago
Awsome Volt.
deepak696 1 year ago
Hmmm.... for less then half the money I can buy a Honda civic that gets better gas mileage, has more room is more reliable,and gets 10% better gas mileage....Hmmm....
Gee, I wonder why they stopped making electric cars 90 years ago? Oh well, if a 7500 dollar tax credit is a good idea why not give the cars 100% tax credit? Oh, that's silly isn't it. 7500 smart, 100% dumb dumb dumb :)
tomintroy 1 year ago
that was a pretty cool review, this thing is pretty impressive
praetorian2150 1 year ago
i have a commute thats 5/8ths of a mile and i drive my '76 c-10 pickup with a 454 big block
acres90 1 year ago
I average about 42 miles per day so I should get around 400 mpg....I'll be charging it with my surplus solar electricity from my net-zero solar power home. This is all part of a 10 year plan to wean off of oil....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago 63
@MrEnergyCzar YYes,yes,yes. And the government can print enough money to make everyone a billionaire but that's not really creating wealth and your not really saving energy. It takes a pretty good imagination to ignore all the massive energy that it takes to make the car, batteries (that wear out!), more energy and toxins growing the silicon that made the solar cells... Go read some magazines and newspapers from the 1970's and look at all the goofy programs the government (we) funded.
tomintroy 1 year ago
@MrEnergyCzar I own a durango that gets about 11 MPG. I feel bad :(
peanutchopper 11 months ago
Why should you? Did you willingly buy an 11mpg car knowing that it pollutes and costs more??
heartlessvietboy 11 months ago
@heartlessvietboy Absolutely. I love my durango.. no doubt about it.. but I certainly wouldn't mind getting more MPG for my money.
peanutchopper 11 months ago
Well, if you willingly bought a Durango knowing that its gets less mpg, then yes you can feel bad about its poor fuel economy.
heartlessvietboy 11 months ago
@MrEnergyCzar hi, it is nice that you got the Volt, one question, solar electricity, what companies sell that kind of staff?
denisrenelara 8 months ago
Good job on the video... my commute is 10 miles each way... should expect about 200mpg commuting. Electricity in our area is 8.7 cents per KW... it will cost less than a dollar a day to commute.
pjkPA 1 year ago
It is only the price that kills the Volt. It is the sad victim of the old saying: The marketability of any product is inversely proportional to it's stage of development. By the time you get one to market, it is twice the price you imagined. If the Volt was $23K like a Prius, I'd buy one without test-driving it. I already have an electric car and a Prius... but I'll buy the Ford Focus Electric if it hits the correct price.
Yavor54 1 year ago
The Fusion hybrid is a pretty good car. The problem is that US designers calculate that Americans would rather have more power and a little better MPG. It feels like a hot 6, but it's a four cuz it's a hybrid. Nope, You buy a hybrid to get killer MPG, not a little MPG boost and more power. A well-made big 4 gas-only can get 38 MPG. Ford is doing good things..and the Ford Focus Electric is the one to watch.
PS: The Chinese angle is to do diesel hybrids.
Yavor54 1 year ago
The price kills this car. 39 MPG on a 400 mile highway trip? WTF? A 2010 Prius
will do 55MPG all day at 67 mph. It does 60+MPG in the city. $33,500? A $28,500 Prius III will drive itself. Yea, auto lane-centering, auto vehicle spacing behind and ahead- and auto parallel parking. It's IQ is about 3X this still-born beast. Plus it has been de-bugged over 10 years. You'll be the de-bugging test team for the Volt..
Best of luck to GM, but the Ford Focus Electric is the winner of this race.
Yavor54 1 year ago
@Yavor54: So what do you think of the Ford Fusion Hybrid? A little more HP and more mpg over the Prius.
V8Supercar1 1 year ago
@Yavor54 Most people have a commute that is less than 40 miles there and back, and at that range you get no gas used and nearly 100 mpg, which is why the volt is awesome
googoo120 1 year ago
does anyone else think the front half looks like a 2010 ford taurus and the back half looks like a honda honda cr z
CTBTRIPPLE123 1 year ago
I have to have one of those...
prototipo7 1 year ago
This sux...is just another Prius...an .American Prius....you want a plug in hybrid buy a Fisker Karma. The engine is use as a electric generator( in Karma)....less polution..less consumtion than a Volt....
jonnydorobantul 1 year ago
Dull style. GM has no lue re design. They back off from anything half decent for fear of alienating dull people. Dull people buy GM and anything different scares them.
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kristineM1000 1 year ago
@myperfectautomobile See what a Volt Owner has to say on the Volt!
myperfectautomobile 1 year ago
@DroidNoid Who said this is a 11 secs quarter-mile car??? This is a regular vehicle...0-60 in 8.8 sec is way better than many econo-cars in the market now....
About the total cost of ownership and the battery cost...well, that is a good question and we must do a research on it.
wtrdogg20 1 year ago
well its way nicer looking than the prius.
DJTEVAdotCOM 1 year ago
This cars sick!
JoaquinSerrapio 1 year ago
bull shit. when they first introduced the car a couple years ago they stated that the mpg would be 250+ miles per gallon.....
fredmagic09 1 year ago
@fredmagic09 You are correct about this, but that was before the EPA changed how they calculate MPG for plug-in hybrids. By the old standard, GM was correct, but not anymore. It was obviously just a marketing gimmick, but it did its job.
jake1110 1 year ago
@summt5697 If a person is only driving 50 or fewer miles 90% of the days, why is it so terrible if the Volt doesn't have the most outstanding gas mileage? On those days when all or most of the mileage is all electric the Volt will be very economical. In California PG& E plans to charge as little as 5 cents per kWH for nighttime E.V.charging. At that rate, you’d spend 60 cents to cover 40 miles in a Volt.
luceneInAction 1 year ago
my civic gets 38.5 mpg on the highway at 75-80 mph and it only cost me $3800
mikeniz583 1 year ago
@mikeniz583 and how much money you pay on gas, EVERY MONTH?? Next time you say something, make sure you evaluated it very well before saying it.
If you just use this car in the city and you drive a daily distance enough to always use the car in electric mode and never let the batteries to get fully discharged, you will NEVER NEED TO BUY GAS.
I am not a Chevy lover, but I must say GM did a good job with this car...it is way better than a crappy Prius.
wtrdogg20 1 year ago
@wtrdogg20
Opel, a German company designed the vast majority of this car. The volt is based on the 2006 Opel Flextreme/Ampera concept, which was changed by Chevy to use gas instead of diesel, and to look more appealing to American Buyers.
Opel already showed of a concept for a possible successor to the Volt called "Opel Flextreme GT/E".
Patrickz1984 1 year ago
@mikeniz583 so? whats your point?
i can buy an equivalent compact american/german/korean/italian/indian/chinese car for under $1000 and get similiar or better milleage to your civic...but that is irrelevant to those who can AFFORD and WANT the Volt. Early adopters always pay a premium, but that does not mean the platform isn't viable.
price is not just a reflection of value...we have luxury brands selling for markups well beyond what i would pay for them..yet people still buy them.
ISinisterI 1 year ago
@Dalit5 well, hey, the way electric companies produce electricity isn't a consumer problem. driving more efficient cars is one way WE (everyday people) can improve things. Lobbying for different sources of electricity is another problem all in it's self. And it is surely not the problem of the car. Don't twist things.
KE61090 1 year ago
Nice car.
But as long as the electricity is generated by burning fossil fuel, these technologies actually dry up resource faster than conventional cars, cause, first, electricity is to be generated, then it should be transported & it is lost in transmission. Then, they need batteries which again demands mining.
So, these cars actually eats up 3 times more resources than the conventional technology. If the electricity is generated from solar cells, wind, tidal waves, then, it is somewhat better.
shivrajvishnu 1 year ago
@shivrajvishnu i mean the whole point of the car is for it run on electric that's why it's all electric motor. it only has a gas tank in there for long distances. i don't understand how you can say this car drys up resources? If these cars replaced SUV's there would be more fossil fuel.
KE61090 1 year ago
@KE61090 - It is a great technology which removes the direct dependency on fossil fuel, cause it runs using electric power. But how the electricity is generated matters, if it is generated by burning coal/natural-gas/gasoline then it eats up more resource.
shivrajvishnu 1 year ago
@shivrajvishnu Internal combustion engines are so inefficient, and large electrical generating stations, even ones using coal, are so efficient, that electric vehicles have a much lower carbon footprint than any conventional production car. Even considering transmission loses, conventional cars can't touch electric vehicles for efficiency
luceneInAction 1 year ago
@shivrajvishnu You've been listening to AM radio too much. Energy efficiency of gas cars
is less than 4% over-all. It's all about energy conversion. 1st -it's all solar energy. The closer
to the sun you get, the better the efficiency. All big batteries are recycled. Electric vehicles
are coming in and gas vehicles are going out (to join horses). Don't worry -You'll still be able to go to a
gas car riding center and blow black smoke and make loud noises.
Yavor54 1 year ago
I'll stick to the Nissan Leaf.
datpimpinboy 1 year ago
TWO THINGS COMBINING TO CREATE SOMETHING THATS NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS EITHER!
ijackofftoanime 1 year ago
Let's wait for the first problems to emerge. Probably by the middle of 2011, we'll know if the Volt is a decent car or not.
euphorialupstream 1 year ago
hybrids been there for long time.. The technology has been there waiting for someone to ignite and make things happen. That technology have been vanished time after time because money and other reasons.. So you never know GM will take Chevy Volt back and not build again like the EV-1 and 2..
Eisic1978 1 year ago
FUCK THE FUTURE CARS
NikeBlazer623 1 year ago
This is EV-1 V2. So you could have been driving cars very much like this one for over 10 years now. But you americans idiots killed it. The future was 1999 not today. You/we lost a decade to SUVs and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to secure access to oil wells. We need the power of the sun, wind, water and geothermal energy, not oil.
pcuimac 1 year ago
@pcuimac nobody wanted to pay $50,000 for a EV-1.
ijackofftoanime 1 year ago
black central panel looks great!!!
solidsaladin121 1 year ago
@redmond12400 GM bashing: soo fresh bro. You get your Camry's brake pedal fixed yet? Bet they wont have the new Motor Trend in the waiting room.
Alejandro8587 1 year ago
How reliable is this car.. from a company who made really bad cars for the last 20 years?? Please wait for 5 more years to see how this car falls apart and lined up at the dealers for major repairs and replacements.
redmond12400 1 year ago
"the future is now" OH COME ON!
Mariosdog 1 year ago
where is the EV1?
gm killed the electric car
watch out
gm might come by in the middle of the night and take away all of their volts!
crammage 1 year ago
@crammage They will do that after they receive a big check from Saudi kings.
redmond12400 1 year ago
@redmond12400 whats that/?
crammage 1 year ago
@crammage As soon as the GM Execs get paid by the Saudi's they will crush all the Volts as they did with EV1.
redmond12400 1 year ago
The Price of the Chevy Volt is only $42,000. Even better, our government is giving us a rebate of up to $7,500. That makes the car only $32,000. That is a banging bargain!!! GM says they are not profiting from the Chevy Volt, something that I would do if I was already making hundreds of millions of dollars. That is generous of them.
heartlessvietboy 1 year ago
@avengful Yep.
sniper034 1 year ago
41 grand!!!!! damn....
violentstreetsoi 1 year ago
Cut the price in HALF, or nobody but idiots will buy it. If you really want to save money, you'd buy a cheap car (sub 13K) that gets 34 mpg. To be honest, it looks like a piece of junk to me. I will not buy it, end of story.
1dgg9h4dr6ppp8 1 year ago
@1dgg9h4dr6ppp8 Luckily, the world does not revolve around your purchases.
nytquil1 1 year ago
@nytquil1 Why is that lucky? You think it is good when idiots waste money inefficiently?
1dgg9h4dr6ppp8 1 year ago
the way she rubbed that car showing off its curves... man that was hot
dagrome 1 year ago 3
FAT
LeOutil 1 year ago
@DroidNoid
Yeah.. I am sure you do 0 to 60 in 5 second during all green lights.
ManFuYi 1 year ago
I'd much rather have a Nissan leaf... its cheaper to buy.. I'm assuming cheaper to maintain... looks better... probably built better... But in the mean time I'll just stick with my gas car and let all the antsy rich people buy the electric cars first and see how they turn out.
musubi69 1 year ago
this crap has too many hard to use buttons. honda has a lot too, but they are easy to read, and are easily read, this has too many buttons and are hard to see. i mean it took 5 fucking minutes to find out how to turn the radio on!!! on the hondas it is simple and straightforward
saboobuu 1 year ago
The 21st century Renaissance in automotive transportation has Finaly begun in earnest!
brotherjupiter 1 year ago
saw this car the other day in nyc. IT HAS NO TAIL PIPE!
izeitchik 1 year ago
@izeitchik @izeitchik Hey, the car does have a tail pipe. It has to have one because there is a gas engine in the car, so it needs to have exhaust for when the gas engine is running. If you look at this other video review of the Volt, at around 30 seconds in, the guy shows you where the tail pipe is hidden.
carman81usa 1 year ago
@carman81usa haha, when I said this I thought the car was fully electric. but thanks for clearing that up!
izeitchik 1 year ago
What is the big deal it's a fukin HYBRID
MrMustang210 1 year ago
@MrMustang210 It isn't a hybrid vehicle. The engine doesn't drive the wheels, the engine only acts as a generator to make electricity to power the electric motors which drive the wheels. This electricity that is generated also goes to maintaining a constant 20% charge state in the battery once it has been depleted to that level. General Motors even says so themselves, it is a range-extending electric vehicle.
clemsontigers18993 1 year ago
@clemsontigers18993 defend it all you want but at 40,000 i dont give a fuck what they call it .. its a hybrid
MrMustang210 1 year ago
stupid ass hybrid lol 20 miles on electric charge i rather get the cheaper nissan does 4 times the range and its cheaper and no gas at all also im waiting for the tesla model s 300 pure electric aston martin looking like for same price of volt fuck gmc they had the chance with the ev1 and soldout to oil now ther fucked sorry tesla going big now
bonds911 1 year ago
@bonds911 Oh and little do u know the leaf takes like 20 hours to charge double that of the volt
keisho5555 1 year ago
@bonds911 You should try not being such a fucking idiot sometime.
skinnysoup 1 year ago
Just think- If...If global warming was indeed false....you say oil is "natural as water" and, "...does nothing to harm anyone". Were you asleep during the entire three month Gulf Oil disaster?! Did you miss class the day Peak Oil was explained? Have you ever sucked air ( rode a bike, ran or just plain stood on a sidewalk ) and breathed carbon monoxide and diesel emissions? - When net dorks "expound" upon issues they have zero clue about - well - it just makes them look like..well, a net dork.
lolsmileyface 1 year ago
global warming, global cooling, climate change and whatever it is called now are all false. Oil is as natural as water. Burning said oil over hundreds of years will do nothing to harm anyone. This car will not sell because nobody wants it, and others like it..(such as caskets on wheels...small cars). Energy is going to go crazy in price due to "the oil companies are evil" crowd. Goodbye energy independace...hello astronomic prices.
chevymaxman 1 year ago
@chevymaxman Did you got to elementary school, at least? I have never seen anybody saying such stupid thing like what you said in that comment....I really invite you to stand in front of the tail pipe of a car with the engine on, and breath all the smoke comming out....Then you will tell me if burning oil is harming you or not....
Uranium and Plutonium are as natural as water, but it doesnt mean they are not harmful, same applys to the OIl...Smartass.
wtrdogg20 1 year ago
it is one of the best move of GM
aligathorchicago 1 year ago 2
paying $41K for a car with the interior materials of a sub compact chevy cruze is down right crazy. But I'm sure the car will sell well but not to the mass public.
venusfan 1 year ago
@venusfan Depends which state you buy in: in Oregon the Volt runs $28500 after state and federal rebates - and saves $2000 in gas and maintenance yearly, for fleet driving. For a five year purchase with resale, its equivalent sticker price after running cost savings is around $13500 dollars - it's a bargain!
pna71 1 year ago
@venusfan How does that make sense? The car will sell well but not to the mass public? That's the only way things sell well. Do you mean sales will match production volume?
flatblackstrat 1 year ago
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SKHSirNicolas 1 year ago
GM doesn't care about the environment LOL. Look up Saturn EV1 100% pure electric, not a single drop of gasoline compared to this one.
jamessicat25 1 year ago
fake and gay
BillayBoyy 1 year ago
@BillayBoyy you are stupid....
EnCiBro 1 year ago