The Volt May Have an All-Electric Option  E-mail
Written by Hank Green   
Tuesday, 29 April 2008

The Chevy Volt remains the near-term grail for green-car enthusiasts. The 40-mile, all-electric driving range combined with the convenience of an onboard battery charger seems to solve most of the problems that face electric vehicles.

While the car will, in the majority of applications, be 100% EV, it has the option for longer trips that pure-EVs just can't deliver.

But in a recent email exchange with PetroZero, Bob Lutz, VP of product development at GM, indicated that the Volt might actually have an all-EV version for the true enthusiasts. The car would be developed primarily for California, to meet the zero-emissions vehicle mandate.

While the range-extending electric technology of the Volt will make it appealing to the mass-consumption of American, an EV option is a welcome thought to diehard ecogeeks. The pure EV version would remove the onboard generator and, instead carry more battery packs, extending the range significantly.

Though the pure-EV isn't going to have anything like the 600-mile range of the range-extended version, it could easily triple the 40-mile all-electric range. And so now we all have one more reason to be excited about the Volt.

Via PetroZero and GM-Volt


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written by Bob Wallace , April 29, 2008
The optimist in me wants to think that if Lutz is willing to make a public statement like this then the battery packs that GM has been testing for their PHEV version might just be panning out....
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written by Bob Wallace , April 29, 2008
The optimist in me wants to think that if Lutz is willing to make a public statement like this then the battery packs that GM has been testing for their PHEV version might just be panning out....
he Volt May Have an All-Electric Option
written by Al Lococo , May 05, 2008
The Volt May Have an All-Electric Option


A Prius Hybrid in the garage is worth two Volts on the drawing board.



Why doesn't GM just start knocking out those nice EV1's that were so well received by their owner drivers. They were going over a hundred miles on a charge with NiMH batteries.



Plug-in, we have the technology, and the NiMH powered RAV4 EV is the proof.



Cheers,

Al Lococo

www.evprogress.org

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Hank Green is the founder and chief geek at EcoGeek.org. Aside from being obsessed with saving the planet with technology, he loves to write and make videos. If you want to find out more about him, visit hankgreen.com
 
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