Posted on 08/11/2009 5:35:29 AM PDT by navysealdad
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Chevrolet Volt, GM's electric car that's expected to go on sale in late 2010, is projected to get an estimated 230 miles per gallon, the automaker will announce Tuesday.
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62 miles per gallon aint small potatoes.
Will the thing actually go that far without a recharge?
40 miles without touching the gasoline motor.
That’ll put a heck of a dent in the average mpg for CAFE standards.
ain’t buying no products from Goobermint Motors. End of story.
“The Chevrolet Volt, GM’s electric car that’s expected to go on sale in late 2010, is projected to get an estimated 230 miles per gallon”
Is the range even half that?
But how much fossil fuels were burned to charge it?
Nope 60+ mpg is about what the turbo diesel suicide clown cars in Europe get. Not allowed in the USA, because of the EPA. No batteries needed.
Mopeds are even more efficient.
Me, living is far more important than MPG.
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Commie Car companies ... Will Not ever buy them
Freight trains are electric too. Of course the electricity comes from deisel powered generators. The Volt’s electricity will come from Coal Powered Generators.
“++++Will the thing actually go that far without a recharge?+++”
Now they need to raise electricity costs. Hey “green goers” how many “green house” gases will be made because of the high demand to recharge a HUGE battery? What happens on a road trip that’s 1000 miles?
Sounds nice, but a decrease in a demand for one thing leads to an increase in demand for another.Think of the loss of jobs in the petrochemical industry....oh my, who will pay all those union dues!? I guess we’ll be getting our electricity from the Arabs as well?
And to make it. Anybody looked into battery manufacturing lately?
Lithium causes dementia. Like with the mercury in fluorescent lights is OK, lithium in car batteries is OK. Save the planet and all that rot gut.
^0^ The world is no longer sane.
I don’t buy GM anything these days.
I read somewhere yesterday that GM has started selling cars on eBay. No wonder they could afford to crap can a 1000 dealerships...
The first 40 miles are free (the Obama stimulus program pays for the initial mileage).
“But that mpg figure would not take into account that the car has already gone 40 miles with no gas at all.
So let's say the car is driven 50 miles in a day. For the first 40 miles, no gas is used and during the last 10 miles, 0.2 gallons are used. That's the equivalent of 250 miles per gallon. But, if the driver continues on to 80 miles, total fuel economy would drop to about 100 mpg. And if the driver goes 300 miles, the fuel economy would be a just 62.5 mpg.”
I have been saying for EON's that the Volt will make the Prius the Beta Max of Hybrids...
If, (and it is a big if) the Volt engine run sat a Constant RPM like I think it will, that means tayloring the engine for the lowest Brake Specific Fuel Consumption (BSFC) at that given RPM.
That is huge....
This thing won’t even be a speed bump for my Hummer. I love pulling up next to a Prius or similar “car” at a light and revving my engine. Counteracts all of their “green-ness” with one or two revs of my engine.
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