That means GM are still building far more cars than they can flog, so they’ve decided to shut production down for a further month to let sales catch up a bit with production. My hypothesis was that the battery should not suffer due to the excess ICE miles. I'd like to see the Volt EV range go to 50 miles, but because it would then give roughly 40 miles during the winter in cold climates, not because 50 miles is any better than the 38 miles which we have now in good weather. The 1.4-liter range extender that allows the Volt to go for 375 miles without a recharge recently won the 2012 International Engine of the Year Award for Best Green Engine, presented by Engine Technology International magazine.

I attempted to be as accurate as I could with the 4 year rolling price of gasoline. manufactured by Chevrolet (USA) in United States 5-door hatchback body type FWD (front-wheel drive), automatic -speed gearbox electric power/gasoline - EREV Extended Range Electric Vehicle engine with displacement: 0 cm3 / cui, advertised power: 111 kW / 149 hp / 151 PS ( SAE net ), torque: 368 Nm / 271 lb-ft, more data: 2012 Chevrolet Volt (aut. The Chevy Volt just got a battery upgradeand scooped up an award to boot. For now, here is the last Operation Report for my 2012 Chevy Volt. Sales seem to have been slightly better since production restarted, and GM have now managed to get rid of 10,666 Volts up to the end of July, but that’s nowhere near what the projections say it should have been (26,250 according to GM’s revised projection, and 35,000 according to the original predictions). were using the gasoline powered range extender. Going from the Volt's 35 mile EV range to the Leaf's 73 EV range only increases your EV miles as a percentage of daily diving by 6. So I decided to take my first ever lease, a 2 year lease, on a BMW i3 with a range extender. General Motors has revealed that they are to halt production of the Chevrolet Volt for four weeks as sales stay low.īack in March, we revealed that GM were to stop production of the Chevrolet Volt range extender EV as actual sales fell well behind projected sales.Īt that time – with a production target of 45,000 Chevy Volts in 2012 – GM had managed to flog just 1.626 Volts in the first two months of 2012 so they decided to halt production for a moth as they had 6,300 Volts stockpiled. range-extender electric vehicle technology has been generally recognized by the industry, the E-REV's start-stop control determines the mode of the car. For example, in the Chevy Volt, battery power from the electric grid can be cheaper and more environmentally sustainable than burning gasoline (depending on the electric generation source), but due to the trade offs between the range of a pure electric vehicle and its battery size, adding the range extending gasoline is considered by many to be.

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