Just read this in the Yahoo finance section under GM heading.
"General Motors will launch the 2014 Chevrolet Volt hybrid in the U.S. market by the end of August 2013. The 2014 Volt will provide buyers with an impressive fuel economy of 98 miles per gallon equivalent, or MPGe (electric) on battery power. Talking about its mileage on gasoline, it comes out to be 35 miles in the city and 40 miles on the highway. This amounts to savings of approximately $900 in annual fuel cost when compared to gasoline cost. This new model will come with a 1 liter three-cylinder engine, which is made entirely from aluminum and is 20% more fuel efficient than engines in the earlier models. Also with a drained battery, the new model boasts around 43 miles compared to 35 miles in the 2013 variant."
Is this just another case of sloppy reporting, or did Chevy pull a fast one on everyone?
I'm pretty confident that the engine is the same. Also, MPGe...the e = equivalent. Seems like sloppy reporting to me. There have been discussions about the Gen 2 having the 3 cyl. 1.0L engine...only speculation at this point.
There are already 2014 models on the ground ready to be sold. Same range, same MPG(e), a handful of tiny tweaks and two new colors. The big news is the $5k price drop.
Yahoo finance actually just has a link to Seeking Alpha's web site, which can be notoriously unreliable. SA's writer appears to have convoluted the 2014 Volt with the various rumors of the Gen 2 Volt specs. I'm guessing horrendously-sloppy reporting on Yahoo's side in not fact-checking this link and possible intentional deceit on Seeking Alpha's side.
Come on. It's Yahoo news, written by children for children with childish comments. High school newspapers are more reliable than Yahoo.
"A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.
Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "yahoo" has come to mean 'a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse person'."
Apparently any dope with internet access can be a "reporter". There's no need for conspiracy theorists and propaganda campaigns. There's enough nonsense posted already to make it hard to get accurate information.
Brochure is a little dated. Says more than 175 million miles EV. It's more like almost 248 million, just checked a few minutes ago. Fuel saved is almost 13 million gallons.
I don't trust anything that I read on Yahoo. I really only read the forums to laugh at how stupid people are.
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