Comments on: GM Begins Work at New Chevy Volt Battery Pack Assembly Plant

By: Dalton

Dalton — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:17:53 +0000

YAY!!!! What now, Toyota!?

By: Noel Park

Noel Park — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:13:18 +0000

Good news! Bring it on.

By: PJK

PJK — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:04:12 +0000

Seems we know a lot about the Volt but not so much about the American Auto industry and it’s competition. Our government is lending money to our auto industry… unlike banking they have plans to pay it back. The taxpayers gave the banking industry something like 800billion dollars to cover loans that should have never been given and I don’t see plans to pay it back. Our auto industry was hit with banks that were going under and couldn’t lend money and a world wide drop in auto sales of 40 percent. The Japanese routinely “bail out” Japanese industry (our competition) but I never see that in the press. Did you ever wonder why, after more than 15 years of making the Prius, hybrids only make up about 1% of the cars Toyota sells?
The Voltec is not a hybrid… it’s electric drive. It’s the best technology to date.

By: steel

steel — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:51:44 +0000

Really late, but this needs to be addressed

“Oh and don’t forget the 30% (approx) losses between the power plant and your house, funny how folks forget that little detail.”

The DOE estimates the Transmission and Distribution Network in the United States is 92.5% efficient. Go check out the DOE site. 30% is just scupper wrong. Now if you meant the US system produces more than 30% of the power that is consumed… I think you just proved the point you were arguing against.

And let me just add. Lithium can be used up. The entire store of easy to mine Lithium could someday be bound into batteries current in use. I guess someday we might have a peak lithium theory.

By: Cab Driver

Cab Driver — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:55:22 +0000

I don’t know about the CCA rating, but if you check out this very cool animation of how the Volt pieces go together ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7T0m1Z2FO4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fwatch%5Fpopup%3Fv%3Dg7T0m1Z2FO4&feature=player_detailpage ) you can see that the 12v battery terminals should be accessible by removing the floor of the rear storage area under the hatchback.

There’s a lot of other stuff to be learned from the animation too. Have fun!