Chevrolet Volt the future of Electric Car
If you want to buy a hybrid car, Chevrolet Volt might be a choice, this little review of the Chevrolet Volt for you.The EPA gave the Volt a “miles-per-gallon-equivalent” or MPGe rating of 93 in all-electric mode, just below the rating of 99 for the Nissan Leaf assigned earlier this week.The EPA also rated the Volt’s range when powered by the 400-pound lithium-ion battery pack at 35 miles, less than the 40 mile range GM had used in its earlier descriptions of the car.Nissan Motor Co Ltd’s battery-powered Leaf, which also goes on sale next month, has an EPA-certified battery-only range of 73 miles.GM said it would continue to describe the Volt’s battery range as between 25 miles and 50 miles, depending on conditions.
For longer trips, and in some other situations, the Volt also has a 1.4-liter engine that kicks in to give drivers an estimated 379 miles of total driving range, said Doug Parks, the GM executive in charge of electric car projects.
General Motors Co.’s Chevrolet Volt battery-powered car will get three mileage ratings on its window sticker—37-, 60-, and 93-miles per gallon—that vary based on how the vehicle is driven.
Average range also will be displayed on the stickers. The Volt will have a 35 mile range listed; the Leaf’s is 73 miles.To reach Volt figures, the EPA tested the car under driving conditions that tested how the car would perform using a combination of the electric battery and gas engine.
The Volt sticker prominently displays 93 as the miles-per-gallon equivalent when the car is driving on the battery alone; 37 miles-per-gallon is the figure when the gas engine is delivering power to the electric drive system. In smaller letters, 60 miles per gallon is listed as the comparable to other compact cars.
The Chevrolet Volt got its much-awaited EPA mpg ratings today:
* The equivalent of 93 miles per gallon (mpg-e) in combined city and highway driving while running on electricity alone
* 37 mpg when running on juice from its onboard gasoline-powered generator.
* An annual average fuel cost ranging from $601 if you run it only on its plug-in electric charge to $1,302 if you run it only on its gas-powered generator.
* A range on electricity alone in the EPA test cycles of 35 miles.
Those will be the figures on the Volt’s fuel economy window sticker when deliveries of the plug-in car begin next month. GM says Chevrolet Volt can go 25 to 50 miles on electricity alone, also subject to variables, then a 1.4-liter gasoline engine kicks in to provide juice for the electric motor, making its range the same as a non-electric car a capability General Motors has advertised as eliminating “range anxiety.” To electric car purists, however, that makes it not a fully electric car.
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