Chevrolet Volt in 2010

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Chevrolet Volt will be ready to use in 2010? :hmm:

Chevy Volt works, it will mean the average commuter could go months between fill-ups, making the Prius look like a gas-guzzler.

Right now, the most efficient hybrids only get a battery-powered boost at low speeds. Most of the time, they still burn gas. The Volt would be the first car to flip that equation by running solely on electricity, using a small gas engine not to move the wheels but recharge the battery.

Plug it in to any outlet overnight and it will go 40 miles without a drop of fuel, 650 miles on a single fill-up. At least that was the promise when the Volt concept was unveiled.

This car's cost is expensive??
 
At the time of unveiling, the Volt project had been in existence for less than a year. The Volt was targeted to cost around US$30,000. As of April 2008, General Motors Vice Chairman of Global Product Development Robert Lutz was quoted as saying that the realistic unsubsidised price had risen to US$48,000,[40][41], that he reckoned that US$40,000 might be possible, without making any profit, and that only government tax incentives could take the price tag nearer to US$30,000. When asked directly about the price later, Lutz indicated that this was a misquote - and said "The answer is that we don’t know

Chevrolet Volt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My source link
 
Go and look for a photo of the interior and you will find a one pedal inside the car, you would need two. One to press gas in and the other to hit the brakes, but there is only one! :eek3:
 
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See?!
 
JClarke said:
Go and look for a photo of the interior and you will find a one pedal inside the car, you would need two. One to press gas in and the other to hit the brakes, but there is only one! :eek3:
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Because you would not use the combustion engine for acceleration, I would assume that you turn it on and use the transmission to shift it into forward, reverse, park, etc.

I'm not sure.
 
JClarke said:
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wtf!! where is it?? it's missing clutch pedal too!

BradB08 said:
Because you would not use the combustion engine for acceleration, I would assume that you turn it on and use the transmission to shift it into forward, reverse, park, etc.

I'm not sure.
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hhhhmmmmm good point :hmm: Could be controlled by buttons/joystick/etc.
 
I don't see anything that makes the car move -- see below

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EDIT: Wait a minute....!

... there is actuaklly two pedals there..
 
:hmm: maybe it reads your thought?? or... it's voice-commanded?? or.... it's just a life-size toy after all....
 
Yeah and it is impossible and in the end, that's a very bad photo shoot, after all
 
I don't see controls for a radio or anything. If I buy one of those, I want a killer sound system with lots of bass.
 
and it would have been highly expensive for some useless car that doesn't have everything and a bad photoshoot :rofl:
 
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