I feel it's a shame that Chevy stopped making Volts just when they were getting good.
The 2nd Gen volts had an EPA rated battery only range of 53 miles. My wife is the primary driver, and because the majority of her driving is at speeds under 50mph, the GOM typically displays an EV range of around 68 miles. I once mangaed 92 miles on the batteries, but that was mostly constant speed driving on the highway and included a 2000 foot drop in elevation. Except on long trips and the occasional drive up to Tucson (85 miles each wa), my wife drives it primarily as an EV. It always seems to surprise her when it announces that the next time she drives, it will fire up the gas engine to run diagnostics. It does this if the gas engine hasn't been used in the last 2 months (as long as there is gas in the tank) In fact this was Chevy's stated reason for dropping the Volt, most people drive it mostly as an EV and weren't using the gas engine. With the Bolt now available, to solve range anxiety issues they felt it wasn't needed any more. Personally I think the Voltec power train would be a good fit for a Pickup or SUV. Give you EV range for around town with the gas engine available for long distance towing. My PGP public key: https://vanderwal.us/evdl_pgp.key April 3, 2021 11:53 AM, "Lee Hart via EV" <[email protected]> wrote: > My first thought was that over time, hybrids would increase battery capacity, > and decrease ICE > capacity. But that hasn't happened. 20 years later, the best EV-like hybrids > only have a 20-40 mile > EV range, and still a 400-500 mile ICE range. So they are still 90% ICEs. _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
