This weeks Auto Recon is going to take a look at a new breed of car that is not on the streets. It is expected to be out next year or in 2011. Why am I doing a recon on something that is not currently available?
The Chevy Volt is Chevy’s offering in the changing face of the automotive world. I am talking about fuel efficient, energy efficient cars. In fact the Chevy Volt is marketed for you and me as our first practical electric car.
A $40,000 price tag is not bad for cutting edge technology. However, the Toyota Prius has got its’ third generation on the street at just over $22,000 retail. I expect to see the Volt’s price go down after some of the R&D costs are paid off, with sales.
Now some of the expectations for this car of the future. A range of 40 miles on a single charge. Now if you are running low are you battery’s charge there is an on board generator which kicks in. Thus the Volt is not a pure electric car. It is classified as a hybrid.
CNN Money reports that we could see a 230 miles per gallon from this hybrid car. That all depends on how often you need to use the back up generator.
There is a rumor you will have to have a special charging station hard wired into your home’s electrical system to charge the Volt. This could be a real big set up cost.
I could not find any hard numbers on how much it is going to cost per mile. Nor do I see any numbers on how many kilowatts from your local electric company to kilowatts output of the car. These are big questions that need to be answered.
For more details you can go the Chevy Volt answer page for a more detail look.
Bottom-line: The Chevy Volt is definitely a car to keep an eye on. I would not go out and buy one when it hits the streets. There are to many question as to cost of operation that needs to be answered.
Please spend at least a minute researching your articles. It took all of 30 seconds on the Chevy Volt answer page to find:
“Is a special outlet required to charge the Volt?”
“No, you can plug it into any standard 120V household outlet.”
Check gm-volt.com and http://www.chevroletvoltage.com for a discussion of range, mileage, charging efficiency, and hence, costs. I agree that GM has not released several important benchmarks including mileage in charge-sustaining mode. There you will find several well reasoned and researched predictions concerning cost of operation.
Regards.
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