Comments on: Production Chevy Volt to be Revealed in Less Than 5 Months

By: Rashiid Amul

Rashiid Amul — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:40:00 +0000

cool Wow!

By: Jim "searchers"

Jim "searchers" — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:17:39 +0000

Yes the way to go is Electric. with an extender. My trips average 80miles per day and some time +30miles so an electric will be find.
The new invention is a Ceramic battery that is a capaceter that charges in 5minuets and drives for 500miles on 9$ costthats .45cents per gallon equivellant thats good. Lockheed Martin has the Patent. So come along you guys how about it lets say good by to ARAB oil. The new battery can be charged 10000times.

By: Nathan Ealy

Nathan Ealy — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:14:23 +0000

Well, they had a cool futuristic looking car. Now it looks a Malibu. Aren’t car designers with new ideas allowed to work in Detriot, or are they driven away at the city limits?

Go away creative people! Go work for a German car company where people like you belong! Bah!

By: Jim "searchers"

Jim "searchers" — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:10:40 +0000

I will be one of the first buyers when the new VOLT electric chevy comes out. As I feel this is the way to beat the Oil problems. We need electric cars and with a volt extender that could possibly be some form of Generator or Hybrid concept. Good Luck Chevy dont let us down.

By: Rogelio Cisneros

Rogelio Cisneros — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:27:51 +0000

OH yea one more thing if the volt is not out next year im building my own electric car , but it wont be small one, a Crown Victoria or a Suburban.More room for batteries and 2 motors to pull me along. And a generator for extended trips.

By: Rogelio Cisneros

Rogelio Cisneros — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:21:37 +0000

Oh one more small thing can you have Maria Carey sing the song , SEE THE USA IN A CHEVROLET , and please make sure OPEC sees the add. Thanks GM

By: Rogelio Cisneros

Rogelio Cisneros — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:17:29 +0000

Not to worry about milage on the volt as soon as it comes out we will have a ton of people changing the way it charges the battery , more than likely a magnet motor that does not need fuel , runs at constant speed perfect for generating electricity.I think the roof on the volt is not glass but power cells to charge the batteries when parked.Anyway I will be in line to buy 2 of this puppies when they come out , no more gas fro me im out the hell with oil.Anyone seen the japan made electric car that outruns vipers in quarter mile , the ELIICA check it out.GM THANK YOU FOR THE VOLT YOU JUST SAVED THE USA , SEE THE USA IN A CHEVROLET ,ITs back.

By: Tagamet

Tagamet — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:05:12 +0000

J man
Someone has already mentioned a 3 cylinder gen set motor. It really shouldn’t take much to keep juice flowing to the batteries. Obviously, the smaller the better (on a lot of levels)

By: j man

j man — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:16:47 +0000

GM could use a pre existing 4 cyl motor that is allready being used in Europe. Something small that would not use much gas.

I think Jim in Ihio might work at the Honda plant and is mad that GM is coming out with the Volt before Honda makes something.

If you are worried about the power the Volt will use to charge, buy a solar panel to do it for you. I work third so mine would need to charge all day when the sun can do all the work for me.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:41:57 +0000

The main idea of the Volt is not new. In the mid 90’s a high school student built a go-kart using a weed whacker engine to run an 80amp GM alternator tied to 2 car batteries. Using an inverter to run a vacuum cleaner electric motor to power the one rear wheel. It’s range was over 100 miles to 1/5th gallon of fuel…

I wonder what took the automakers so long to use this type of design. It’s exactly how trains work. The student even offered the kart at no charge to GM or Ford.

We’ll see the car in Transformers 2.

Diesel is better in the long run. With a 2cyl motor running at 1800rpm you can generate enough electricity to power the car, A/C and still have some left over. You’ll end up using about 1 gallon per hour. Sailboats use this same technology, or at least did. Under said you have a 36hp 2cyl Volvo engine running to charge up the batteries, run the A/C unit, and pumps, a second engine was used to power the boat with no sails up. It was overkill but it worked well and diesel engines can run for years without shutting down.

Diesel may cost 20% more but you go 200% farther on it. GM will probably end up using a modified eco-tec engine in the states and a renault 3cyl D motor in europe.

Of course GM’s close ties to Suzuki could yield use of their 1.0L 3cyl as the generator. At 2k RPM’s that engine in a Swift would yield 70mpg.