The Volt will take you where you want any time you want and go as long as you want it to.
Once the battery is discharged it just fires up the gas engine to run the electric motor and charge the battery.
For the field guys it’s more.. Where do we put our tools, ladders and stock of spare parts? Volts do not offer the space for this.
I imagine that's the way most of them will be used. I'm no physicist or chemist, but it seems to me that there's got to be entropy involved in going from gasoline to battery power, when a conventional car goes straight from gasoline. The whole concept sounds rather pointless. Even if you're going straight battery, the electricity has to be generated from something, and at present, that something is fossil fuel. So you're not saving any fuel, you're getting less efficiency from your fuel by turning it into electricity, you're not doing anything for the environment, and you're paying two to three times as much for the vehicle. I wish I were as smart as a GE executive; then I'd understand how this is all supposed to work.
I like the “we” in your post. Is that “we” as in general consumers or “we” as in field engineers?
You’re offering up facts again.
This isn’t allowed on FR when discussing the Volt, LOL.