Chevy Volt Test Drive: How GMs Electric Car Works

[gwruyzyahoo]

I have a yr 2000 Corvette that Gm stopped making ABS units for. So now I have a "Check Traction Control" flag coming up and no way to turn it off. The exhaust pipe also fell off just sitting in the garage. Thanks GM. I will never buy another GM product, new or used. GM's motto:  Chevy runs deep! Yeah right, what a joke. GM makes inferior products that they don't stand behind. Learned that lesson the hard way. Never again!

[gwruyzyahoo]

I used to have a Suburban. Worst car I ever had, and I was always a big Chevy guy. It broke litterally every 2 months, stuff like the door handle falling off, cruise control, fuel pump, water pump, AC etc. When I complained to the service manager, he said, personally I only drive Japanese. WOW! That was back in 2002 at Anderson Chevrolet in Menlo Park, Ca. That dealership is now a Tesla dealership. A sign of the times I guess.

[vid009]

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 !

[Peter24397]

its really alot better looking than other electric cars!!! i would buy it, if it wasn't soo expensive

[Insanity714]

looks almost exactly like the prius in body style. and "it has torque" my ass. its just a 40k golf cart

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

@Insanity714 It definitely has torque. Higher torque from 0mph than a gas engine per weight. Dude an electric motor is extremely powerful. They use electric motors as main drive motors in mining dump trucks and diesel serial hybrid locomotives. The other advantage of electric motors is their efficiency. They are 80% efficient on average. Petrol engines are 30% efficient on average if coupled to the drive.

Trucks in shipping docks are now using electric motors as main drive. HUGE TORQUE!

[boldziga]

hahahahahahha GM can't make a PURE electric car like they did is 1996 LOLOLOL the ceo of GM is a fuck because he wants to keep the dam arabs that own the oil companies happy >:(

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

@boldziga Exactly. Foreign policy with UAE is stopping us from having electric cars manufactured by big corporations such as GM. It's a tight play between UAE, Israel and the USA.

I say, if you have the 40 grand, buy a near new car with the gas engine out of it, convert the whole thing to electric and commute to work with that. Have another car that runs on gas for those long journeys you know the electric can't make. This is the best "serial hybrid" setup that I have going at the moment. :D

[ianrkav]

Does the petrol engine driving the generator kick in automatically when the battery power is nearly used up or do you have to start it manually?

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

@ianrkav With all the technology available now, of course it starts automatically. There are keyless ignition systems in modern cars now. Push the button and it starts.

It's the same thing I used to get when I had a hybrid. "Do you need to charge the battery?". My answer was always "no, it stays charged by recovering all the otherwise wasted energy when coasting downhill, or coming to a stop. Then it uses that energy to accelerate the car to speed again, saving you 60% of your fuel".

[2012listo]

Problem- if you rarely to never use gas, then the fuel in your tank might turn into shellack. Just saying. I'm wanting one, and I will never plug it in unless I run out of fuel, like aqualine. Yes, this car will run on mostly water. 60% water, in fact. Think about that while you mix yourself a coctail tonight.

[ndyt]

2012listo, if you don't use much gas you can put stabilizer in the tank, same stuff they use in boats. You cant run anything off water, wake up.

[2012listo]

Wake up? You're kidding, right? You douchebag, you wake up! You don't even know what time it is, or what time is. I designed cars for 8 years, and one is still on the road. But that was over 20 years ago. Tellin' me about Sta-bil! Son, and I call you that because I fucked your mother, you did not do what I suggested, which was to think about it while you MIXED a COCTAIL. Hint hint. Booze BURNS, and it's 60% water, and will work just fine in your car, especially e85 'ers. NYAAH!!!

[ndyt]

2012listo, you already get half the mileage with pure alcohol, if you add 60% water you will get less then a quarter of what you would get from gas. You would drive a car that gets about 7 miles to the gallon? Right. You might have designed the outside of a car but you have no idea what is going on under the hood.

[2012listo]

Okay, I'm in a much better mood today. You're wrong, but there's not enough room here, so I'll post a DETAILED message. But put simply, your engine IS a steam-engine, BUT we use gasoline or alcohol to make the steam, instead of water. "Unburnt hydrocarbons" is a fancy word for gas-steam. We put 100 units of gas in with 10 units of air, and SQUEEZE it and burn the 10 units of gas-air. The resulting HEAT turns the rest to 'steam', that pushes your piston. Heat and explosions do not do it..

[ndyt]

2012listo, a steam engine is an EXTERNAL combustion engine, a gas engine is INTERNAL combustion. To put a steam engine in a car you would also need a large and very dangerous BOILER. I have a degree in mechanical engineering. You should stop fantasizing and get some education.

[2012listo]

Nevertheless, the principal is similar enough. You are too narrow-minded, and a pig can only pass on what it has gobbled. Think for yourself for once, mr. engineer! Hah! I have PATENTS in the field, and my cars do indeed RUN on AQUALINE, my OWN fuel that I MAKE as opposed to cracking veg. oil, or something messier. I'm 41 and retired with NO DEBTS at all, on account of my abilities, since I am an orphan and have NO benefactor. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, mr engineer! Jeez!

[ndyt]

2012listo, Give me a list of your patent numbers plz. This should be interesting.

[2012listo]

Ok, gimme a second, I got kids, you know. I will dig up my Tor-grip info, sometime today or tomorrow. Having patents doesn't make me right or wrong, though. My point stands. Why don't you mix some 99% with water, about 1 to 3, and see if it burns, in the meantime.

[ndyt]

2012listo, I know it burns and I know how much energy it contains. One gallon of gas has 1.3x10^8 Joules. One gallon of alcohol is 0.8x10^8 Joules, which is about 2/3 that of gas. So, if you dilute it with 60% water you now have 0.34x10^8 Joules. Gas has almost 4 times that much energy which means you will need to carry about 4 times as much of your water/alcohol mix to go the same distance, but you will also be carrying a heavy boiler for your steam engine which will cost you more. Wake up

[2012listo]

Very good, you can regurgitate someone else's colonic interpretations of what happens inside an engine. Problem is, you are NOT burning ALL the gas! UNBURNT HYDROCARBONS are not a result of BURNING gas! SHEESH! #6,189,423 B1 for micro-to-zero gravity use WITHOUT moving parts. I grew up a Walter Reed/ fort Deitrich brat, and got in with many air force and NASA folks when we were all brats near washington. Never got the contract, but it is a favorite around my shop here. Try the damn fuel.

[ndyt]

2012listo, I pulled that info and did the math myself. What does hydrocarbon have to do with mileage? Are you trying to say that efficiency will be boosted? It wont.

[2012listo]

Un-burnt hydrocarbons is a fancy word for 'gas-steam'. It is a complicated term for un-burnt fuel, a confusion-inducing term for Vapor made by heating gasoline by only allowing enough air in to ignite @10 to 30 percent of the fuel, raising the temp enough to turn the rest, the 'unburnt hydricarbons' into an expanding, but not burning, steam-like vapor, which gently pushes the piston. What efficiency? The chevy turbo sprint got near 60 mpg, my v8 roadmaster gets 27. Efficiency is an illusion

[ndyt]

2012listo, You can tweak an internal combustion engine all you want but you cannot get better then about 40% efficiency without breaking the laws of thermodynamics. Again, you need to educate yourself. An electric motor is 80% efficient and is where we need to be heading once battery technology is ready, which is nearly is. The Volt is a great first step because it gives you the bests of both.

[2012listo]

Meh.

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

@ndyt I agree with you 100%. Diesel gets about 40% efficiency. A hybrid setup can give you 60% and up. An electric setup can give you 80% and up. But a regular unleaded ICE gives a measly approx. 30% efficiency on average.

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

@2012listo Chevy Sprint @ 60mpg doesn't mean it is more efficient than a car that is heavier and gets 40mpg. It is more economical, but not more efficient. My Honda City Turbo used 50mpg and it was completely rebuilt and tuned. The figure is almost identical to a hybrid vehicle but of course, the hybrid weighs 1.7 times more than the Honda City. So the Hybrid is more efficient.

[khdude2000]

@2012listo dude if you truly are so innovative and have developed this miracle formula that you call "Aqualine" than why are you arguing with people over youtube about your engine's mechanics/capabilities? What exactly do you have to prove?

[Sadetree]

LOL Iv been converting a IROC Z-28 with a steam engine. With the soul purpose to take back the speed record from the British. Large! You don't know what your talking about. Dangeruos as in going over 151 mph then yes.

[ndyt]

Sadetree, you have a website? I would love to see that.

[TranCendenZ]

The Volt has already been dubbed "Grandma's electric car" by automobile analysts. Look at the old geezers getting into it at 0:40.

[EnigmaNZ1]

Most will buy 2nd hand when it can be picked up for half the original price, say in 4 years after new sale.

[logonyomyface]

ev1

[sexyboi142]

its...uhhh pretty. its a chick car lol but i would buy it if it wasnt 40 grand

[sasukehammett]

yeah sure dude I want Lamborghini Diablo SV

[sexyboi142]

what??? how does that even fit in with wat i said