Comments on: The Electric Car Isn’t Dead! Here Comes the Chevy Volt

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:16:53 +0000

Before we see a large number of parking lots offering to charge your car while you shop, the electrical grid will need to be upgraded to handle the demand.

By: The Daily Times

The Daily Times — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:57:17 +0000

An interesting view of the automotive industry. Where do you see the future of the industry, will it ever recover or will there be major casulties?

By: greenskidusautoparts

greenskidusautoparts — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:58:37 +0000

As electric cars take off, you will probably start to see parking lots equipped with charging stations. These existed in California before they abandoned their electric vehicle mandate. It’s a gradual transition that will take some time.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:36:22 +0000

‘Hybrid’ implies that the car can move from more than one source of energy, such as electricity AND gasoline. The Prius does this: the electric motor can move the wheels, as can the gasoline engine. The transmission has a splitter.

The Chevy Volt ONLY has the electric motor able to move the wheels. The gasoline engine is used solely for turning the generator which makes electricity for the batteries and the electric motor. The gasoline engine has no connection to the wheels, so in this sense, the Volt is an ELECTRIC car. You plug it in to charge the batteries for an ELECTRIC car. Once the batteries are depleted, you can recharge them on the fly with the onboard generator. If you have no gasoline, it is a pure electric car. With the Prius, if you have no gasoline, it won’t go.

GM did not sell the EV1 because it cost $80,000 to make last century. The battery technology was not there (nickel metal hydride back then).

With the new automotive lithium-ion batteries, it’s a game changer. Even now, they are NOT QUITE ready, but should be by 2010.

By: Randy Scott

Randy Scott — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:47:34 +0000

Once again the pop media, including technology writers, demonstrate that they don’t understand the difference between an electric vehicle, a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid.

The Prius does not have “two motors” – it has a large electric motor and a small gasoline engine – as does the latest promise of the Chevy Volt. This is a hybrid, but with plug-in capability, and technologically under-educated writers are still calling it an electric car.

These writers also have not caught on to the fact that Detroit automakers have no intention of producing electric cars. If they did, then Chevy would not have crushed all their EV1s, a successful electric vehicle that was described by corporate stooges as “unsuccessful”.

By: Jalal

Jalal — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:39:14 +0000

thats great, hope we can see cheaper electric cars soon without even using the gas