How the Chevy Volt Will Transform Fuel Economy

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why would you not have the gasoline power charge the batteries while in motion then once it is recharged gasoline shuts down and batteries kick in again and over and over// just a thought??????

anthony of PA 5:13PM October 09, 2009

I'M WITH SEAN WHY SO HUSH HUSH ABOUT FUEL ECONOMY IF YOU GO PAST THE FIRST 40 MILES AND NEED TO GET HOME. Its a simple calculation. Let me help the interviewers. Ask them to drive the car with dead batteries. Fill with gas and fill it up again after driving 100 miles. I will do the calculation for you if you like. How can yo talk about this car and not bring up this question. Wake up

JJ of OH 9:55AM October 08, 2009

I'm on the Volt waiting list. I only take a trip > 40 miles about once a month, so the Chevy volt makes a lot of sense to me. I'd love to see all our coal and oil fired generator plants replaced with Nuclear energy. No polution, just clean energy. France is 100% Nuclear, so yes, it can be done.
There is a town in Germany that is 100% solar - EVERY house has solar cells on it's roof, and the town actually puts power back into the grid. Some houses only use 20% of the power they generate. Not using imported oil is possible- we don't need to drive 6,000 SUV's with only one person on board.
PS - currently designing my off-the-grid home right now. Building will start next summer ! Charging to Volt up won't cost anything !

Scott of SC 12:57PM October 07, 2009

Wind will be replacing coal and that will be great. I still haven't heard anything about how far the volt will go on its generator/engine and what the mpg's will be based on a 200 mile trip. If the car is useless or not cost effective after 40 miles then who would want it?

Sean of OR 10:23PM October 04, 2009

How long will the battery last?

James V. Mims of TN 8:04AM October 01, 2009

hi i am afrom India and ken carson is absolutely correct , every country has to be independent of the natural resource coming from the middle east

Kapil Sharma 6:27AM October 01, 2009

Nice concept, instead of burning gasoline, it burns coal, maybe we can call it miles per chunks of coal.
When will we understand that an electric car needs to be recharged from somewhere. Half of the power plants in the US are coal powered.

Robert of IL 5:41PM September 29, 2009

The Volt is a nice concept, and as pointed out we need to come up with more choices like this, if we are going to be independent from oil. But i also think that $40,000 price tag will stop anyone from buying it.

Harold Folker of AZ 3:42PM September 29, 2009

Your readers are missing the real advantage of the Volt. Most of you kiddies wern't even born at the time of the 1973 Arab oil embargo. Maybe those old enough to remember have forgotten. I haven't. I remember the drivers lining up for blocks to buy gaololine at the few stations that still had it. I remember the talk of rationing and coupons, and the hit the U.S. economy took. That was back when this country only imported one third of it's oil, not the two thirds we import today.
Get this straight. We are only a regime change (say in Saudi Arabia) from living that nightmare again. On top of that, oil is a finite resource and the world is slowly running out. I don't need to be a greenie or a tech head for these points to matter to me. The Volt is about energy independence and national security. Our government needs to do anything it can to support this and similar technology. Any other course is to bury one's head in the sand and hope disaster does not overtake us.

Ken Carson of NV 2:46AM September 23, 2009