Chevy Volt: Guilt-Free Motoring
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Imagine never having to fill up again with gasoline. That’s the promise of the new Chevy Volt, an electric car concept created by General Motors, which debuted at the North American International Auto Show. The flex fuel hybrid car is beautiful, offers several propulsion platforms including E85, electricity, hydrogen and biodiesel and is the first to feature GM’s E-Flex system, a family of electric propulsion systems built onto a common chassis to create electricity and extend the range of the vehicle. While in Detroit, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the vehicle’s lead designers, Bob Boniface. While the Volt remains a concept car, we spoke about the vehicle’s styling, and the promise it represents for clean energy and a greener America.
Reporter’s Notes: We must be making quite an impression on the large automakers with our content here on The Next Gear. So much so that GM invited us for an all expense paid trip to Detroit to cover the North American International Auto Show. While there, they wined and dined us and gave us unprecedented access to designers, high level corporate bigwigs and company spokespeople, yet with no requirement that we publish anything about them, only that we disclose this enticement. It was an opportunity we are happy to share with you, our audience. I encourage you to leave your feedback!
-Matt Kelly
Tags: Chevy Volt, General Motors, E85, biodiesel, E-Flex, Bob Boniface, concept car, clean energy
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January 31st, 2007 at 9:32 am
Why does it only have 40 mile range on the battery power?
While the Tesla Roadster has 250 mile range and that the ZAP has 350 mile range?
Is there somekind of conspiracy going on with GM keeping the oil fuels flowing into this new generation of E-Flex cars?
How long time does it take to charge the battery? What is the car’s performance on battery power?
January 31st, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Good questions Charbax. From what I know of the ZAP, it can’t really go above 45mph can it? That makes it unable to go on the freeway. I think that may have something to do with the range. The Tesla also costs $100k…definately a beauty but not something that will be in my garage too soon, sadly. I would imagine the Volt if it comes into production will cost about a third of that, although no price has been mentioned. Plus the Tesla is only a 2-seater. It will take six hours to charge the Volt’s battery. You can find out more about the green aspects of the car here: http://media.gm.com/us/gm/en/news/events/autoshows/07naias/brands/chevrolet/volt/volt%20environment.htm
Thanks for your comment!
January 31st, 2007 at 7:42 pm
According to http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/01/30/no-tesla-cuv-but-zap-will-build-the-lotus-apx-with-batteries/
The ZAP has 155mph maximum speed, 644hp..
Although I guess GM is a better established car maker than ZAP is, although ZAP is working together with well established Lotus.
Anyways I am really very interested in all the new clean cars that are being launched. It would just be fantastic in my opinion with a long range, fast recharging and cheap to produce mass market electric car. I surely also am looking forward to Hondy FCX type Hydrogen-refueling-at-home systems as well as the one that smells like french fries, the one running on clean vegetable oils..
February 1st, 2007 at 7:55 am
Sorry charbax-I was under the impression you menat the Zap car we profiled back in December. http://www.podtech.net/nextgear/technology/1636/little-radio-ev
We have a request into ZAP for a video interview of the car, sadly though we won’t be at NADA. Stay tuned!