Posted on 12/14/2015 10:49:04 AM PST by jazusamo
Ping.
Dear Bob,
Bolt, from the Volt, Dolt?..............
Simple answer - don’t buy a new vehicle.
First when they claim 200 miles they really mean 150 or less because 200 is all downhill with a 90 mile an hour tail wind and a 90 pound girlieman driving it in daylight without using the heater or AC or headlights.
Second it takes hours to fill up the tank.
Without coal there cannot be an electric vehicle.
Like him or hate him he does know cars, Jeremy Clarkson said EVs are a dead technology, that’s good enough for me.
Government Motors. Pass.
This is shocking, an electrifying situation.
The Chevy Bolt is all-electric, like Elon Musk’s Tesla.
I recently read an article about Toyota’s president Akio Toyoda.
He thinks the car of the future will be hydrogen fuel cell (which Musk calls “fool cells”).
Like the Prius, it’s hybrid, but instead of gas/electric, it’s hydrogen-fuel-cell/electric.
Now all you need is a hydrogen filling station LOL.
Any mergers at this point would need to be international. Top 10 automakers (not in order)
Japan
Toyota
Honda
Germany
VW
Daimler
BMW
US
GM
Ford
Korea
Hyundai
China
SAIC
France
Renault-Nissan
The Volt has a 1.5L gas generator on board.
In the few hours I drove the vehicle, the battery never charged. Not when braking, not when coasting, not when going down hill, not even when idling.
From my experience it seems that while the both the gas engine and the batteries can power the vehicle, the two power sources are independent of each other. Said another way, the gas engine cannot charge the on board battery banks. The only way to charge the batteries is to plug the vehicle to an external power source for up to 14 hours for fully depleted batteries.
Stupidest design and engineering ever. With the batteries depleted, you are essentially driving and underpowered conventional car that has to deal with the weight penalty of lugging around an unusable battery bank.
Nice move GM.
That reminds me of week old spaghetti in the trash:)
The Bolt though is all-electric.
Bam-Bam and the National Socialist American Workers Party are trying to get rid of coal.
A few weeks ago Chevy was advertising a 36 Month Lease on the brand new design 2016 Volt.
It was nothing down, $229 a Month with 10,000 Miles a Year.
I would have run right down to get one if my Wife needed a new Vehicle. She currently has a 2013 Kia Optima with under 20,000 Miles.
The new Volt is a vast improvement over the first Generation Design and has increased Range before the Gasoline Engine is used. With my Wife’s commute to work, I doubt she would ever even need to use the Gasoline Engine.
I have a Friend with a Tesla, and he loves the thing. I have to admit, it hauls A$$ and is a very nice Car, though way overpriced.
Where I live in S. California they are all over the place, but I like the idea of a Hybrid over an All Electric.
Anyway, my idea never did work out. On each and every test run I conducted the darn extension cords kept get tangled up in the wheel well.
Yes, you are correct, my mistake!
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