Chevrolet Volt Electric Car

Chevrolet Volt Electric Car.

Only about 15% of the energy from the fuel you put in your tank gets used to move your car down the road or run useful accessories, such as air conditioning. The rest of the energy is lost to engine and driveline inefficiencies and idling. Therefore, the potential to improve fuel efficiency with advanced technologies is enormous. With an Electric Car it costs just $2.00 per 100kms with MUCH more performance than with petrol at $20.00 per 100kms.

Chev Volt Plug-In Series Hybrid Electric Car due 2010

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[CanyonLakeTX]

If you are so serious then why arent they in the showrooms?

[tsport100]

@CanyonLakeTX The Volt went on Sale in November and 300+ have already been delivered but there's abit of a backlog of orders to work through before you'll see them sitting idle in showrooms. The first years production is already sold out!

[cyborgtroy]

ew GM is trying to build electric cars again... After they aborted the EV1... Jerks.

[GMLSX]

How about two more seat, more trunk space and a back up power?

[DerrickB82]

wheels that recharge the batteries as you drive fixes the whole dam charging problem uuh is the world dumb or am I just really smart? charge batteries while using the batteries is it really that complicated to have a continuous system that replaces what it uses? Just take this idea slap alternators of some kind in each wheel or mounted in what ever way is best and bamm!! drive forever off one initial charge till your batteries die of old age,,Fuck me I'm a genius

[CanyonLakeTX]

@tsport100 Don't you think electric vehicles will be more viable when electric energy can be sent to the car via cellphone towers. Thus never needing refuling.

[Texmurphy51]

I live in Pennsylvania. You try & see how far you get running this up and down our hills with a foot of snow on the ground, running a heater inside that probably uses half as much energy as the motor. To haul around a big heavy battery is stupid. The best Idea I have seen is a micro-turbine electric hybrid.Its called Velozzi & claims 100 to 200 mpg. This would kick ass

[tsport100]

@Spastb00n To give the Volt an Ev range of 200 miles the battery alone would cost $20,000... the same as the battery in the Tesla cost. GM don't make batteries YET and they need to sell a mass market car for around $30,000. There's no way GM can sell a $30k car with a $20k battery.... simple math.

The alternative is 100 miles range like the Leaf, the battery costs $10k but Nissan have a joint venture with NEC since 1993... big difference in profit share and range.

[Spastb00n]

@tsport100

Also the facts are distorted... with the better batterys, the EV one could go 150miles. And some production-tesla actually ran over 300miles at some challenge, not only 200, and they are listed for 244 not 200.

Like I said... nothing wrong with a range extender, to make a useable car, but 40 miles is almost some sort of greenwashing-marketing joke in my eyes.

[Spastb00n]

I was talking about the electric range, when comparing them. So thats still less than the EV one.

Nothing wrong with some sort of range-extender, but why only 40 miles? Batteries have evolved 14 years since the EV one.

I believe, that by having such a battery-range it will only lead to the people having to burn gasoline even on short trips.

Also the tesla draws "slightly" more amps, so quite naturally a 244-mile battery would be more expensive for it, that it would be for this car.

[tsport100]

To get 200 mile range the battery in the Tesla is 53 Kwh and costs $20,000. That's 66% of the $30,000 retail price of a Volt.

The Volt has the same battery capacity (16 kWh) as the original EV1 which had only 55-75 miles range. The Volt uses a completely different type of battery that is still expensive because volume manufacture hasn't begun yet and GM need to precisely manage the battery to make it last 150,000 miles/10 years under warranty.

In time battery prices will drop.