Chevrolet Volt
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Q: Would you buy a Chevrolet Volt and pay more for electricity?
Buying a Volt would increase your electric bill. The volt has to be plugged in and with the rising electric bills already, wouldn't it be cheaper to stick with your gasoline powered car?
A: Actually,you will be able to charge the car as you drive it.
Nice try,winger.
Q: How much electricity is needed to charge the chevrolet volt?
I am doing a project for school and in my investigation I must find out how much electricity is needed to charge an electric car. So if you could maybe give me an example, how much electricity would it take to charge it for just 1 hour? And how much would it cost?
A: no one really knows for sure yet. Its still under development. The real question is how long will it take to fully recharge. With current technology a fill up will take hours unlike the 2 or 3 minutes most of are use to with gas cars.
Q: Who else thinks the production Chevrolet Volt is Ugly?
I am not talking about the concept Volt, but the production version. I was so looking forward to buying the Volt if it looked like the concept. The high waist line and low roof line made the concept car look HOT. Now it looks just like a typical import. No style!
A: It's awful. I would have seriously considered one if it looked similar to the concept car. Not now. I think they deliberately made it ugly so that it wouldn't sell. I live in an area where electricity is about a nickel per KWH, so it woiudl have cost me about 10 cents a fillup.
GM just drives me crazy.
Q: Is there any way in purchasing a chevrolet volt working concept model?
A: Not for sale yet
This is only a concept car.
Even if you could buy it, there are no replacement parts or mechanics that can work on it. With no replacement parts, there could be no warranty.
I hope this car doesn't go the way of the Impact concept did about 15 years ago.
I believe this car will be built. It will be a very good car if used for its intended purpose, short commuter trips.
Q: When would the Chevrolet Volt be available in the market?
Would it be available in Calgary,Alberta, Canada? How much would that be?
A: it is not scheduled to release just yet they probaly wan to see how everyone will react to the 08 camaro and malibu my guess probally 2009 they should be about ready
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Q: How does the chevrolet volt compared to other petroleum based vehicles?
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A: Most cars have a fuel-burning engine hooked up to directly drive the wheels.
The Chevrolet Volt is supposed to be a series hybrid, where the fuel-burning engine is solely used as a generator to provide electricity to the electric motors. Only the electric motors are directly hooked up to drive the wheels. Think of it more as a 40mile electric vehicle with an on-board charger.
Q: Anyone have an idea when the Chevrolet Volt will be available?
A: 2010 or 2011 the last I read.
Q: Chevrolet Volt question ...?
I've heard that the battery in them only lasts around ten years and once it no longer works it's too expensive to replace so won't it mean that Chevrolet Volts will have horrific resale values compared to other cars that last beyond ten years?
A: The charging system is designed to recharge at the optimum time for maximum life of the battery. I often wonder about the prius I was told that there life of the battery will be around 5 years and the battery pack costs like $8000 to replace. No car after 10 years is going to be worth a whole lot of money if you are driving it regularly. Also as with a lot of other thing the longer they are on the market the cheaper the batteries will become.
Q: Would you rather have a 70 mpg mini cooper diesel, or a chevrolet volt?
In the rare event you haven't heard yet, mini puts out a diesel that gets over 70 mpg.
Here is the link.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10019208-48.html
The vehicle is currently not being released in the states because we don't have an adequate supply of low sulfur diesel. Meanwhile GM has put all their eggs in their volt. Their electric car can go 40 miles on a charge before switching over to the gas powered generator. Cool idea. So if you could have one of these cars today, what would you choose and why?
Personally, I would go for the mini. The mini has plenty of space. It's sportier , and diesels have been tried and tested. Not to mention the overall fuel efficiency would be greater on the mini. I just don't understand what the big deal about hybrids and ev's is when there are vehicles that can get 70+mpg.
A: ULSD is prevalent in the United States. Diesels aren't sold here because they can't pass emissions tests. Except new technology is creating 'clean diesels' which can pass the tests, so some companies (i.e. Honda, BMW) are going to begin selling diesels in the US soon. Except the technologies that decrease emissions also decrease fuel efficiency somewhat, and I believe make the cars more expensive.
Anyway, I'd choose the Volt hands-down. I rarely travel more than 40 miles at a pop, and so with the Volt I would rarely use any gas at all. Thus it would be far cheaper and cleaner than the Mini Cooper diesel.
Not sure why you think the Mini gets better fuel efficiency. Disregarding the electricity used (80 cents worth over those 40 miles), the Volt gets 50 mpg in hybrid mode. So that's 40 miles at nearly infinite mpg followed by 50 mpg in hybrid mode - it wouldn't get down to 70 mpg overall unless you drive it 140 miles without recharging the battery.
Yeah, I'd take the Volt. Except that I hope for my next car to be fully electric.
Q: What do you think of GM's new concept, the Chevy Volt?
If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's a link:
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/01/07/detroit-auto-show-chevrolet-volt-concept/
The Volt is basically a hybrid car with a ton of battery storage. It can run up to 40 miles on battery power alone, and you just plug it in at night to recharge it, so no more gasoline if you drive less than 40 miles per day.
The battery technology is not ready yet, but it looks to me like a very good concept that could be a top-selling production vehicle in a few years.
Your thoughts on GM and the Volt?
A: The Volt is different from all of the current hybrids because the engine (gas or diesel) doesn't power the wheels at all, just recharge the battery. I think this is the technology of the future, and the problem is that Toyota will market it before GM.... a great concept!
Q: 12 volt supply problem 1987 chevrolet r30 454 tbi?
I drove my tow rig home from work yesterday, ran fine all day long, parked it and everything died, no radio, lights starter, not even the cigarette lighter. Traced wires all day today, checked all the fusible links, but for some there was no 12 volts getting to the fuse box. Decided to try jumping from the battery to the pair of terminals on the firewall where several apparently normally hot wires come together. Truck cranked and ran normally, disconnected the jumper and the dang thing still works normally even without the jumper now. While I am glad the truck is working, it is not exactly confidence inspiring.
I from how it looks (may be mistaken) all the trucks 12 volt power goes through the starter solenoid (both wires from the batt lead to the starter, then some wires go from a second terminal on the Solenoid back to the wiring harness. Could it be an internal fault in the solenoid that by starting the truck jarred it into working am I just completely off base.
A: i ran into EXACTLY the same problem on an 86. i kept forkin' around and finally went direct to the starter and bingo it started. to this day it is still working and never happened again. i have absolutely no idea why. by the way--that was almost 2 years ago.
Q: Will the new Volt save GM?
Production Chevy Volt images leaked
http://www.leftlanenews.com/chevrolet-volt.html
I don't see how GM can sell this thing for $35,000...
A: The only thing that is going to save GM is a huge Government bailout package like the one that they are going to give to those two mortgage companies.
The Government set a precedent when they bailed out Chrysler in the 80's and now every mismanaged company in North America thinks that this is the way to save themselves from their own stupidity.
Suggestion to GMCorp. -- build some decent cars and fire anyone in your corporation that makes more than $150,000
a year. Your making cars, not rocket ships! If you can't do that, there are those that can.
Q: Can you power high drain devices like a hair dryer from a built in 3 prong 115 Volt AC outlet in a minivan?
It's a Chevrolet Upander.
I would be running the engine to avoid not draining the battery.
A: I'm not sure but I believe it would be too much of a drain on the outlet.
Q: Would you buy a Chevy Volt? Please explain your answer.?
The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in series hybrid vehicle by General Motors, with production expected to begin in 2010. The company has avoided the use of the term "hybrid," preferring to call it an electric vehicle with a "range extender" ("extended range electric vehicle" or EREV), due to its design. This setup, however, is typically referred to as a series hybrid.
The vehicle is designed to run purely on electricity from on-board batteries for up to 40 miles (64 km), or about half the range of GM's first electric car, the EV1 — a large enough distance to cover the daily commutes of 75% of Americans, which averages around 33 miles (53 km). With the use of a small internal combustion engine driving a generator to power the electric motor, the vehicle's range is potentially increased to 360 miles (579 km) on the highway (and which can be extended for very long trips by conventional refueling). The battery pack will be recharged by the on-board engine and can also be recharged by plugging the car in.
In the United States, the Volt will qualify for $7,500 tax credit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt
A: I would consider a volt once they have been in production for a few years. as must new modles, it is bound to have glitches that need to be fixed, particularly since there is so much new technology involved. Once they've been around for a few years most of those problems shoudl be resolved.
Q: Hi i have a 69 chevrolet truck and my battery dies? when it's running it stays a 13 volts?
and jumped it many times but when i shut it off, it won't start again? oh and the positive gets hot? any ideas? the alternator is about three months old! i've changed the poles, and terminals, but still the same thing!
A: Measure the voltage at your alternator terminals - your charging voltage with the engine running should be around 13.2 - 14.8 volts. Taking into account the loss to resistance, you sound close to correct.
If your battery terminals are getting hot while starting, I'd strongly suspect your starter is drawing an excessive amount of current. Is it turning over slowly? Try cleaning your ground-to-engine and ground-to-frame contacts, as well as the positive terminals to the starter. If this doesn't work, you may want to investigate swapping over the starter - perhaps to one of those high-torque mini-starters.