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	<title>Comments on: Chevy Volt will Need Special Low Power Windshield Wipers and Audio System</title>
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		<title>By: Pithy Opiner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pithy Opiner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If I buy one, will I make it home on a cold, wintery night as it is raining cats and dogs and I&#039;m listening to the news on the radiio or jazz from a cd.  Headlights are on, windsheilds are flapping back and forth as fast as they can...just get me home, please.  I promise to plug you in as soon as we drive into the garage. I&#039;m only 7 miles from home to the job and I park under the freeway so i don&#039;t have access to somewhere to plug it in during the day.  I&#039;ve always figured I would be a great candidate for an all electric vehicle.  But, I hope I don&#039;t get cold feet when it comes time to buy one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I buy one, will I make it home on a cold, wintery night as it is raining cats and dogs and I&#8217;m listening to the news on the radiio or jazz from a cd.  Headlights are on, windsheilds are flapping back and forth as fast as they can&#8230;just get me home, please.  I promise to plug you in as soon as we drive into the garage. I&#8217;m only 7 miles from home to the job and I park under the freeway so i don&#8217;t have access to somewhere to plug it in during the day.  I&#8217;ve always figured I would be a great candidate for an all electric vehicle.  But, I hope I don&#8217;t get cold feet when it comes time to buy one.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Howards</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Howards</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can you provide more information on this please.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you provide more information on this please.</p>
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		<title>By: DaveP</title>
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		<dc:creator>DaveP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just posted this in a future thread, but I thought I&#039;d back post to this thread because it references this thread and I&#039;m trying to suck the entire world into a time-space vortex caused by a circular temporal reference.  :)

Also on the fueleconomy.gov website is a really nice summary of where the enrgy that you put into a car actually goes...  Typically, only 12.6% of the energy you put into the car actually goes to pushing the wheels...
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml
I&#039;m sure I will reference this in the future for something.  ;)

Also, there&#039;s an article in EDN which I don&#039;t know if anybody mentioned but it talks about the efforts to reduce power consumption in the car systems that don&#039;t go directly to move the vehicle (such as reducing power used by headlights).  It&#039;s somewhat technical as it&#039;s targeted to the engineers out there.  It also references gm-volt.com a few months ago when we were discussing the issue of power consumption in the subsystems (apparently this author references gm-volt.com fairly frequently, too).
http://www.edn.com/article/CA6570998.html

Some points:
Tesla estimates cabin cooling in an EV would typically require 2kW.  They estimate heating normally occurs with ICE waste heat equivalent to around 3kW.  The Tesla fellow they were interviewing also pulled a back of the napkin estimate that an &quot;extreme case&quot; load for heating or cooling would consume 8% of the range... Headlights, 1.5% of the range.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just posted this in a future thread, but I thought I&#8217;d back post to this thread because it references this thread and I&#8217;m trying to suck the entire world into a time-space vortex caused by a circular temporal reference.  <img src='http://gm-volt.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Also on the fueleconomy.gov website is a really nice summary of where the enrgy that you put into a car actually goes&#8230;  Typically, only 12.6% of the energy you put into the car actually goes to pushing the wheels&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml</a><br />
I&#8217;m sure I will reference this in the future for something.  <img src='http://gm-volt.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Also, there&#8217;s an article in EDN which I don&#8217;t know if anybody mentioned but it talks about the efforts to reduce power consumption in the car systems that don&#8217;t go directly to move the vehicle (such as reducing power used by headlights).  It&#8217;s somewhat technical as it&#8217;s targeted to the engineers out there.  It also references gm-volt.com a few months ago when we were discussing the issue of power consumption in the subsystems (apparently this author references gm-volt.com fairly frequently, too).<br />
<a href="http://www.edn.com/article/CA6570998.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.edn.com/article/CA6570998.html</a></p>
<p>Some points:<br />
Tesla estimates cabin cooling in an EV would typically require 2kW.  They estimate heating normally occurs with ICE waste heat equivalent to around 3kW.  The Tesla fellow they were interviewing also pulled a back of the napkin estimate that an &#8220;extreme case&#8221; load for heating or cooling would consume 8% of the range&#8230; Headlights, 1.5% of the range.</p>
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		<title>By: Tapoja maksimoida ja selviytyä sähköauton ajokapasiteetin kanssa &#171; Unelmien sähköauto</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tapoja maksimoida ja selviytyä sähköauton ajokapasiteetin kanssa &#171; Unelmien sähköauto</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] oudolta kuin se vaikuttaakin, niin GM Volt -hybridiä kehittävä tiimi huomasi tuulilasinpyyhkimien nielaisevan paljon akkutehoja. Tiimin tarkoituksena onkin nyt ollut myös kehittää sellasia pyyhkimiä, jotka ovat [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] oudolta kuin se vaikuttaakin, niin GM Volt -hybridiä kehittävä tiimi huomasi tuulilasinpyyhkimien nielaisevan paljon akkutehoja. Tiimin tarkoituksena onkin nyt ollut myös kehittää sellasia pyyhkimiä, jotka ovat [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Larry Parylla</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry Parylla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh yes head phones are OK because there is no requirement to hear. If there was deaf people would not be able to drive</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yes head phones are OK because there is no requirement to hear. If there was deaf people would not be able to drive</p>
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