Tuesday, August 11, 2009

2011 Chevrolet Volt Review


2011 Chevrolet Volt

GM’s CEO Fritz Henderson dead the ‘230′ abstruseness today by announcement that the 2011 Chevrolet Volt constituent extended-range electric-car will boilerplate a burghal fuel-economy of at atomic 230 afar per gallon. The amount is based on a abstract EPA federal fuel-economy alignment for appraisement constituent electric-vehicles.

The new alignment actuality developed by the EPA weighs constituent EVs as traveling added burghal breadth than artery breadth on electric ability alone. The EPA uses kilowatt hours per 100 afar catholic to ascertain the electrical ability of plug-ins. As such, GM says the Volt consumes 25 kilowatt hours per 100 afar in a burghal cycle.

GM said that it expects Volt owners to pay $2.75 for electricity for a ambit of 100 miles, or beneath than 3 cents a mile.


2011 Chevrolet Volt

Production of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt will alpha in backward 2010. The constituent amalgam electric-car is accepted to get 40 afar on array ability abandoned with a absolute ambit of added than 300 afar with its 1.4L 4-cylinder flex-fuel engine.

The decision to source the engines from overseas will not add any extra cost to the car’s eventual sticker price, which is expected to fall some around the $40,000 mark. The information comes from GM spokesperson Sharon Basel who told Ward’s Auto that GM is simply leveraging its global footprint and that there was nothing unusual about the decision.