Well, here's something a bit greener to chew on, General Motors says this: almost two out of every three miles driven in a Chevrolet Volt are battery-powered. According to those old Trident ...
NHTSA had done a side-impact test on a Volt then parked it outside ... crashes that have resulted in battery-related fires in Chevy Volts or other vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries.
Here at Hackaday, we choose to memorialize the soon-to-be-departed Chevrolet Volt ... car with a small battery to keep it affordable, backed up by a gasoline-powered generator to provide the ...
“But at the end of the day, if we can get the battery chemistry ... normally been gas-powered, but it also highlights the need for fully electric vehicles since GM’s Volt fleet still used ...
facility (roughly the size of GM’s display at the Detroit Auto Show) will be built in Michigan in 2009 with output of the battery packs in 2010. The lithium-ion battery cells for the Volt will ...
However, while one could purchase an EV for city driving and a gasoline-powered ... run when the battery hits its minimum charge level. So, if you frequently top-up the Chevy Volt via its charger ...
General Motors Co. has released the following animation of repairs it will make to the Volt's lithium-ion battery pack after three of the batteries sparked or caught fire days or weeks after being ...
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The Chevy Volt is unique in that is the first electric vehicle that successfully marries an electric motor and battery with a conventional engine that keep the vehicle powered up over longer trips. In ...
The fuel-cell believers at GM insisted that the company needed to stay on message, pushing hydrogen over anything battery-powered. But Lutz faced considerable headwinds in getting the Volt past GM ...
However, the Volt's onboard gasoline-powered battery-charging engine eliminates range anxiety. Chevrolet estimates a total range of about 420 miles if the Volt is not recharged via an external source.