Chevy Volt Driving: Sneak Peek @ LA Auto Show

GM brought the Chevrolet Volt to the Edmunds.com Santa Monica office to give Edmunds' employees a sneak peak at what GM is calling the production show car.

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[uncleflaco]

iceman: You are the biggest contrarian. Pruis = recall and it still sucks gas. My round-trip commute is about 34 miles, so I can go to work and back w/o using a drop of gas, just driveline oil. Even when GM has a breakthrough product you find reason to criticize. The USA is making world-class cars and you can't accept it. If you want to argue the hybrid route, then the Ford Fusion is at a better price to results value and looks 100x better than Prius.

[MT323able]

Government motors? no thanks...I want my taxes back!

[bevoeater16]

price??? do you have any idea the money you'll save on gas a year!? that car will pay for itself in no time

[bosszeroboss]

@Deanzsyclone

Um, no, it's not a "mute" point -which makes no sense to the literate- it's a moot point. And the promise of "alternative sources in the next few years" will just convince us all to wait for many years and drive bicycles while those of us who can afford $40,000+ cars plug them into our home outlets and watch our electricity bills skyrocket, as the current president has promised.

The whole thing is obviously a winner. For God's sake, let's not use our own oil.

*shrug*

[taztaz79]

Now it's about time for US to get rid of their fossile fuel power generating plants (coal!!, oil, natural gas and so on)... USA consumes twice the amount oil per capita compared with England, Spain and France. And consumes 10 times more COAL than France. Sweden where i live only uses 3% fossile fuel! The energy here somes mostly from water power and then nuclear. Germany uses 55% fossile fuel. I don't know about US right now i find a lot of different numbers everywhere... But they use more!

[Deanzsyclone]

@bosszeroboss Given the current advancements of producing electricity from new sources, and ESPECIALLY the up coming installation of more of the alternative sources in the next few years, your point is mute.

[bigdaddyyc]

@emforty2 I read your post. Ok, simply put... the chevy volt is technically a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and not a battery electric vehicle (BEV). Chevy never claims the volt is a BEV like the Nissan leaf. I was referring to the prius hybrid which cannot drive on highways using electricity alone... the volt can. they don't avoid using the word hybrid, they use it all the time, with the word plug-in...you're looking too much into some conspiracy that doesn't exist.

[emforty2]

your talking about the volt i knew that !!

so when you said on your post below "because you can drive on the battery alone. hybrids cannot" which hybrid are you refering to ???

"second, the current toyota prius is a hybrid not electric vehicle" so ?? where in my post did i say it is and electric vehicle ?

you didn't read my post did you? read it again i said its a hybrid

[bigdaddyyc]

@emforty2 I'd like to clarify a couple of things. First, we're talking about the chevy volt, which has Li-ion NOT NIMH batteries and these can drive at highway+ speeds on batteries alone for 40 miles. Second, the current toyota prius is a hybrid not an electric vehicle, but toyota has been testing the 2012 TOYOTA Prius (PHEV) which can drive at highway speeds with electricity alone.

[emforty2]

@bigdaddyyc TOYOTA Prius will run on batteries ONLY if the speed is below 35mph albeit at a much shorter range because of its much smaller NIMH batteries, the gas motor ONLY kicks in if you drive above 35mph or when the battery depletes

so the PRIUS DRIVES ON BATTERY ALONE and its a hybrid !!

[bigdaddyyc]

@emforty2 because you can drive on the battery alone. hybrids cannot, they use gasoline from the get go. This can use pure electricity up to 40 miles, THEN the hybrid technology kicks in