Chevy Volt on Capitol Hill

MPGomatic.com finds the Chevy Volt on Delaware and 3rd on Capitol Hill on 12/4/08, along with with a cadre of electric and hybrid cars from the Big 3. The Volt moves under its own power.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Chevy
• Volt
• Chevrolet

[Alirove]

COOL CAR!!!! I am ssoooo gonna buy it ... I can't WAIT!

[FluxCapacitor2008]

I think the car companies now understand that they have to make an EREV it is the wave of the future. So I hope the volt is a baby step to mass produced EREV. We need to leave the past screw ups (EV1) in the past and (Be The Change)

[pommamomma]

@Alirove Are you shur I mean it can olny go 40 miles befor you have to charge it agein

[adric22]

Well, when LCD monitors and TVs first started showing up in electronics stores, people said it would be a long time before they displaced the old tube-style monitors and TVs. but look at us just 10 years later, you can't find a tube monitor or TV on the shelf of any store. The car industry may go the same way.

[fireworkstube]

I dont think well see the end of gas powered anything for quite a while. EREV is probably as far as the companies are willing to go until the collective memory of an totally internal combustion engine powered whatever is diminished. There are plenty of companies that have internal combustion engines at the heart of their product line.Harley Davidson,BMW,MB,Ferrari etc.EREV tech is a good fit for standard family cars but not for anything that sells on passion.Not while people know the difference.

[bmtimv]

don't hold your breath

[bmtimv]

gm is investing a lot on electric.. hope it delivers for them.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

kostea13

The volts has only a 40 mile range on the batteries and my daily drive is about 34 miles round trip then if I need to travel 300 miles or more no problem a on board generator kicks in. Also I can get up to 4 people in the car vary cool ID. Its like trains, cruse ships and subs, the gas motors drive generators that power the electric motors

[FluxCapacitor2008]

The volt is very cool, but we dont need all the bells and gadgets that drive the price up we need an EREV under 24k and I think its going to be an up hill battle with the oil companies and the government needing the gas taxes but its good that there starting on some type of EREV.

[diggingforgold]

EV1: 160 miles, then it's dead, time to call the tow truck. Not convenient to recharge where you are at? Too bad, call a tow truck. Take the family with you? Too bad, only a 2 seater.

Volt: Drive for 40 miles, then gas generator provides extended range. No need for a second inefficient gas car or backup form of transportation for longer trips. Lots of freedom. Clean, efficient, family car that looks great too.

No need for 100 mile range when you have a 300 mile range genset.

[diggingforgold]

The reason the EV1 had a bigger pack is because it didn't have a range extender to fall back on. With the EV1, once you ran out of juice, it was time to call a tow truck. If you wanted to drive >160 miles, you need another car.

With the Volt, you have enough batteries to cover a typical days driving AND you have the added freedom of having an onboard genset to provide extended range.

EREVs (even with inferior range) are superior to pure EVs, because they offer the freedom that pure EVs can't.

[diggingforgold]

I completely agree. EREV is the future, and the Volt will be the first mass produced vehicle to spark this next step in the evolution of the automobile.

Pure EVs are great for some people, but not for me. EREVs will deliver the needs of most drivers and give people the one thing that prevented pure EVs from taking off- unlimited range.

People need to remember that the Volt is not the EV1. They are completely different technologies. And EREV is one such technology that I can't wait for!