Rocketboom: The Electric Volt Car

Rocketboom field correspondent Steve Garfield checks out the Chevy Volt next-generation electric car.

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• joannecolan
• stevegarfield
• chevy
• volt
• electric
• hybrid
• car

[Deanzsyclone]

LOL, Nancy was a WHACK JOB....LOL

[jwil2570]

The retarded woman represents the entire fossil fuels industry. It's very entertaining.

[fjmari]

Steve - I thought that the first couple of questions were actually legit and elicited good responses. I would have eliminated Nancy asking the questions and assembled together the interviewee's answers (as it pertained to your original intent for the video) covering up the jump cuts with b-roll.

[floobertuber]

Oh dear. Nancy Hogan, the short bus is about to leave. You'd best hop on board, ASAP.

[beancube2008]

What we should look for is 98% electricity and 2% fuel assistant vehicle. Sun light on most open roads can be collected to drive compressed water steam turbine to generate electricity to recharge batteries. Collect condensed water back to tank for reuse. At night and the battery is low, it then use gasoline burning stream to push the turbine to recharge the battery. Some people don't even drive at night; gasoline would be used only in cloudy days. It can use plug-in recharge as another option.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

If we can get over 40 mile range with plug in battery power this will get the ball rolling and with keeping the gasoline motor in play we will have less pushback from the government (lost gasoline tax revenue) and the oil lobbyist. This is a big pill for them to take and we need to start somewhere and the technology has to be developed on an industrial scale.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Chrysler is working on an EREV for 2010 that has a small high efficacy Fiat 2 CYL motor GEN set that will power the electric drive and charges the batteries at the same time for long trips over 100 miles. This is the way to go they need to decouple the gas motor from the drive train and start the motor only when needed.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

I would not be found dead in a foreign car but you go ahead, I live and work in America and the automotive industry is one of the few industries the middle class has left that profits stay in the US, thats just me. But I agree that we need an EV from one of the big 3, an EV without all the bells and gadgets that drive up the price. It looks like ford will have an all EV Fusion in late 2010 for fewer than 28K.