Is Chevy Bringing Back the Volt?
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2024
- GM is bringing back PHEV, five years after they killed the Chevrolet Volt.
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It’s funny, you mentioned sex appeal because when I met my now wife she thought the vault was a very lame car, but I absolutely loved it. I filled up about once a month, and that was only because I would drive to see family who were a little further away. At one point I went three months straight without using any gas it really is the best of both worlds and unfortunately I had to sell it because I was going overseas. Otherwise I never would’ve gotten rid of it.
Bruh, don't let the gas sit in the tank for longer than a month... Gas losing octane over time and absorbing humidity is a big part of the reason the original one demanded premium
@@ch4.hayabusa thats actually a known issue with the rav4 prime, it uses so little gas that the engine gets ruined by old gas.
for the people who dont know, gas literally turns to gel after sitting for 6 months to a year. it might burn, but if you try to run old gas it WILL ruin either your fuel system or the engine itself and neither are cheap
I think I bought your volt ;) shes amazing
@@ch4.hayabusa The one thing about the Chevy volt is that it will cycle the engine on every once in awhile to make sure the gas isn't sitting for long periods of time. That is why even if you only do battery operation for most if not all of your drive, you'll still fill up a tank of gas every once in a while.
@@ch4.hayabusa Volts go into a Engine Maintenance Mode every 6 weeks of no gasoline usage. Also a Fuel Maintenance Mode to burn off stale gas
The volt is the pinnacle of daily drivers. It has 90% of all of the advantages of an electric car without any of its drawbacks. They are extremely reliable, get fantastic fuel economy, and for most of your driving, you still get to drive around on electricity and save all of that money. It was peak Uber vehicle, you can run the air conditioning all day sitting in stop and go traffic without using much power, in fact you can go camping in it and run the climate control for 3 days straight and the engine will just kick on and recharge the battery as needed after the third day
I don't treat my car very well and it still runs great. It's a great car. I would love to buy a next gen Volt that has the new battery charging standards. 4 hours to charge the little battery on a public charger is a bit much..
@@dragon_nammi slow charging battery in electronics means cheaper
Charge at home lol
@pilotavery Apartments. Can't do it. I'm not asking for fast DC charging just a decent normal charging speed like almost all new EVs do.
@@dragon_nammi You can just run a single extension cord and it will do fine. Yes it will take 6 hours but hey if it's 6 hours overnight...
That being said, I'm not sure where you live but I live in an apartment complex. However, in California, while the landlord does not responsible for the cost, the landlord is actually legally required to allow a tenant to install an electric vehicle charger, if the tenant pays the entire cost. Where and how can be up to the landlord but he must make accommodations. Generally it's about $500 to get an electric charger installed, but you can also get away with using a regular orange extension cord out to your vehicle. Yes it will be slow but it will work fine.
@@dragon_nammi also you're forgetting that it is a volt. Almost every store, strip mall, and doctor's office you go to has chargers now, depending on where you go. At least they do in California. There are more buildings with chargers than there are without. So even if it's just running on gas, if you go to a local store and plug in or go to your school and plug in or go to work and plug in, you're still getting free fuel. And then it still switches to gas after.
My 2013 Volt, with over 100,000 miles, still goes 40 miles on battery power alone. Most trouble free car that I have ever owned. I hope GM brings back the Volt.
329K miles on my 2013! city miles
135,000 miles on my 2013. Love the car like no other
My 2012 has over 210,000KM and still gets about 40 km battery. Original brakes, original 12v battery. No issues. Needs wheel bearings but at 210,000km thats expected.
@@12voltvids WOW. That’s great. Chevy should have never stopped making Volts.
The volt was awesome. I am happy they have seen the floodlight shining in their face. I live in an apartment and cant do an EV. I hope they have something to sell next year when my lease ends.
I am about to pick up a hybrid as my next car, and if I could afford a Volt I would go for it. Problem is, I am looking in the sub-$4500 range, and they just don't exist. About the only cars in that price range that aren't going to be completely destroyed are Gen 1 and Gen 2 Priuses and Camry hybrids, Ford Escape hybrids, and Honda's hybrids. All good options, but none are plug-in.
Doesn't help that GMs big EV push was supposed to get started with the Blazer EV but those have/had a stop sale because the software was so problematic review cars were bricking
Ford: Brings back the Bronco as a retro modern off-roader with great success.
Land Rover: Brings back the defender as a retro modern off-roader with great success
Toyota: Brings back the Land Cruiser with boxy retro styling and huge anticipation
Chevy: Lets bring back the Blazer and make it another bland crossover thing but also an EV and those are two completely different platforms that are named the same.
GM always does the wrong thing in everything anymore.
The wrong thing in everything anymore.
And Ford has been selling a LOT of Hybrids according to their last earnings report.
ford: brings back the ranger/ a small pickup but makes it into another stupidly large truck instead
A broken digital clock is just off.
Not true. I've seen them look like the predators nuclear wristband. Missing LCD segments others half glowing.
Anything gm does, add about a decade or two and realize how stellar that idea was at the time.
5:40 that's the fuel consumption under laboratory conditions, maybe even taking into account the battery charge. In reality it's gonna be at least 25% more. Compared to American gas guzzlers, it's still crazy efficient.
My car had the same stated fuel consumption and you could definitely meet or exceed it with good driving.
The Volt was barely advertized. It still is a great car. The low sales numbers were mostly a matter of GM not really being behind Lutz's vision with the Volt. Our Gen2 Volt still gets 65 mile range in the summer. We rarely put fuel in it and that is basically to refresh stale gas.
A lot of people didn’t buy hybrids around here because they cared about it having a battery, it was because of the incentives here made it dirt cheap (no 150% tax on it)
Your points about Hybrids being the best of both worlds is true. But what’s even better for everyone, even other people hellbent on driving, is safe alternatives to driving. Accessible public transport and cycling - you said it yourselves, our journeys are predictable and short, so why must we have an expensive car for those regular trips?
There will NEVER be adequate infrastructure for everyone. A lot of people live really far away from the big cities, and all of them will still need a car to get to the train/metro/bus station.
I hate the "hellbent on driving" take. Not everyone lives in a city, 5 minutes away from a grocery store. Driving sucks, I wish I didn't have to drive but the nearest costco is an hour an a half comute if im lucky. I do groceries once a month. I am phisically unable to haul 7 bags of food on a train/bus. I'd have to walk 6 hours to get to nearest metro station to then use it to get to work. It would add about four hours to my comute most days if i had to wait for and take the bus to get to work. This is absolute madness.
The idea of driving being a luxury and not an absolute nessesity for a LOT of people reeks of privilege. And "just add infrastructure" is just impossible when you live even just a little far away from the major cities where most of the jobs are.
the way our suburbs have been built the densities just dont make transit possible. other than the main highways it is akin to Brownian motion.
GM could be a good car company if it didn’t constantly sabotage itself. I have a volt it’s great but i think if they had made like something just a little bigger that fit more than 4 people. The dealerships tried like hell to not sell the volt.
When I bought my Volt in 2018, the salesman told me: "You can go home and think about this for as long as you like, because it will still be here whenever you come back." I never had a car buying experience like that! Until I brought it in for routine service a few weeks ago, wanted to check out the Bolt EUV while I was waiting, and was told "I think there's one in the parking lot somewhere" by someone who walked away and never returned.
I bought the 2016 Chevy Volt in 2019 paying half the price of new one. I owned for 5 years now driving 99% electric which cost almost nothing thanks to free charging at charging stations at shopping centres walking distance from home. Gas about $50 last 5 years
It needs to be a bit bigger and higher off the ground. I have a 2018 I bought new with 105k miles. Instead of directly competing with the Prius and getting 50mpg (but faster) they should have made it with more room/ cargo area. I would have gladly sacrificed 10mpg for more room and your average Chevy buyer probably feels the same.
as someone who owns a honda clarity phev where the electric motor is the primary at 180 ish hp i average around 40 miles to a charge, i buy 24-30 gallons of fuel a year
Imagine buying a plugin hybrid and never plugging it in. 🤦🏻
I worked at gm about a year ago and there were internal rumors about bringing the volt back. I also have a gen 1 volt and a spare battery pack when my range starts to dip.
Back in 2017, I was seriously considering buying a Volt. I didn't want a fully electric vehicle because I do long road trips often. I felt that the Volt was the perfect compromise. However, even though the dealership had Volts sitting there, on the lot, ready to be sold. They had zero interest in selling one. I stood near it, read the window sticker, leaned over to look in the windows. Essentially, sending all the signals in full view of the sales team. Not one person came out to ask me if I was interested. I went inside and asked a sales person (who was doing nothing) about the Volt and he pointed at the pamphlet rack and said, "There's some stuff right there." And went back to doing nothing.
Needless to say, I didn't buy a Volt.
You let that stop you? There are other Chevy dealerships.
So you didn’t really want a Volt then
@@nandoman4769lol tru
I bought my 2019 Volt on 9/20/23. It had 45k on the clock. I have put around $76.00 worth of gas in my Volt since buying it as of 2/8/24. Add to that there were two trips that were near to or over 200 miles where I had to buy gas. If I hadn't taken those two trips, it would be even less $. I sold my Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7L that was getting ~15mpg around town, if I was lucky. I was filing up at Sam's every week @ 45-50 bucks per tank. Now, $0, except for the price of electricity which is 7 cents/kwh. I love my Volt. Add to that, it looks like a real car, not like the Prius. Even the new 2024 Prius.
The problem was no one wants a compact anymore. However package it like a Trax and it would have been a hit. The US market is format first. So start with the small cuv that everyone wants.
Again, the chevy BOLT is a great value for an EV. Chevy discontinuing *that* for the more expensive EUV is a bad call
Yup rinse repeat just when it's getting good, bye.
I have a SUV plug in hybrid because I weekly take 4 people into the mountains for skiing/camping/etc and need the space and ground clearance.
I deeply wish I got the rav4 prime, but it’s nearly unavailable.
My phev suv get like 26 mpg combined… I wish I just got a hybrid that got like 36, but damn is it nice to commute with only electric power
gen1 2013 volt. 130k miles. put 30k miles on it last year, saved 2500$ in gas lol. paid 7k for it. getting 50 miles per charge now after i upgraded the 12v battery to 4kwh of lifepo4 and added 200w of flexible solar on the roof. the thing about the gen1 vs gen2 chevy volts is they basically had the same battery in them, except the gen2 let you drain the battery and damage it more. I bet my gen1 volt is getting more range now than most gen2's with similar miles. the last two 10gal tanks of gas have lasted me over 1500 miles each rofl.
Long term ownership, the Volt is most economical car to own. I just bought 2019 Chevy Bolt last summer. Now it lost 60% of its value. I should have bought a used Chevy Volt 2019 instead. If GM wants to beat Tesla in profits, they should bring back the Volt with 100mile of electric range at least 12-gallon gas tank
I drive a Lincoln Corsair GT PHEV and love it. 28-32 miles on battery after an over night charge on 110v. The last two weeks gas engine did not start at all. On highway it gets 38-40 mpg.
Linus is a bit off, if you want an affordable plug in hybrid SUV you have very limited choices. RAV4 prime is best choice but impossible to get and even those are $$$ compared to a regular RAV4. The Hyundai Tucson PHEV is just an overall poor package imo. The only real cheap option is the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and those aren't exactly the most desirable
I'll just add that Kia has the Niro PHEV (and in EV format too), and it's not too bad looking.
@@MichaelArtelle The niro is a valid option if a bit uninspired and lacking in range
@@BCJDM Not too surprised there as it is an older model/platform.
Why did they stop with the volt?! so dumb
no one wanted it
The government told them they had to make EVs when nobody wanted them.
I'd guess the dealerships are more at blame based on my experience at multiple Chevy dealers when I was looking for a car in 2018. The sales teams could not or would not answer questions on the Volt/Bolt and aggressively tried to sell me trucks and SUVs even though I said I was looking for a car. I couldn't even get a test drive of the volt/bolt.
I worked for a heavy equipment manufacturing company that had similar issues with its dealerships when new, objectively better technology was put on the machinery. They didn't fall in line until they realized the rival company's dealers were poaching big customers who were demanding that tech.
GM said they couldn’t make money on the car, plus they wanted to go all EV
my ioniq gets 1000km per tank of gas, and I regularly hit 4.1L/100KM sometimes even 3.8
I own a Ford Kuga since december and am super happy.
I estimate that I will drive it around in total around 50% in EV only and the rest in combined mode - lets see ob that really holds up but id does so far.
Although it is an SUV type car and by design heavier and less fuel efficient I still have an overall consumption of ~5l/100km and 3-4 in the city (once I run out of charge)
Had one for 11 1/2 years. 110k miles, 90% of those were electric. Saved so much on gas the car wound up costing me less than $10K. Car drove like a dream. Very few issues.
I hit 200,000 miles on my Chev Volt this week. I still get 32 miles per charge. The only gripe is 2014 model uses premium gas.
so glad to hear this, I’ve been looking for a plug in hybrid, plan to buy one eventually
I have had a Volt and loved it. Now I have the ELR and love it even more than the volt, though it is similar. Both cars are amazing and I only need to fill up gas 4-6 times a year…. It is truly the most common sense car ever made. Not to mention the technology holds up in this market (premium volt and elr that is). The only thing I would change is make an AWD trim for northern states for winter driving,
I feel like GM might just be doing all the bad calls on purpose
My only question is if they'll handle winter well or not. I guess that can be determined by how well the engine can directly power the car and if it's also easy for the engine to precondition the batteries
I have akways loved the Volt, it was on my short list once I graduated from college. I unfortunately graduated right before COVID and by the time I'd gotten a job in my field, used cars were insane. Volts went from relatively low mileage recent year models going for $15K to $20K to way over that when people discovered how good they were.
Ive owned my 2011 Volt since 2017. Best I've done was about 41 mi on the battery, and gotten the equivalent of 333.3MPG when I finally had to refuel. Just like Linus said, it really is the best of both worlds. I normally average about 36mi EV in the summer and closer to 24mi during the summer, but I also live where there's a lot of hills, which definitely impacts the range quite significantly. I'm really hopeful they bring the Volt back, it was an amazing car and I'd love to get a newer one some day!
Some times I made questions like that... like, how many volts can be storage in a liter or sort of... phisics for me are to... interchangeable..
I leased a Volt back in 2017, had to turn it back over in 2020. The dealer bought out my lease with 3 months left, I made 3 grand and they got a hot car with low mileage to put on their lot, win/win. Great cars! Not gonna win any speed awards, but it had fantastic smart cruise control and emergency features (even saved me once when somebody rolled their truck right in front of me on the freeway), it was comfortable, got incredible gas mileage and I could tool around town all I wanted without ever burning a single drop of gas (up to 50 miles on electric). I miss that car, it was a champ. Hope GM gets smart and considers bringing more volt style cars (electric car with onboard generator fueled by a small gas tank) to get the Midwest over the hump of switching up.
I don’t want to pay $50k+ for a Prius Prime so I am super down to buy a new Volt. Hopefully it’s sub $40k.
With a software mod it can do 136 mph. It has a fairly low drag coefficient.
You can mod a 1st gen Volt to have cadillac ELR acceleration..
So my question is atp is getting a regular hybrid still a good move or should I just try and save more for a plugin hybrid? I drive almost every day but almost never more than a few dozen miles but I don’t have a garage to plug my car and I don’t wanna have to leave it somewhere for hours.
Get a 2019 Chevy Volt premier or LT with the fast 7.2 kw charger, you'll have the best experience. Or a bmw i3 with the range extender.
I have a 2018 Volt and 95% of my driving in all electric after 40k miles! They should have taken the Volt drive train and put it in a small Maverick size truck, they would have sold a billion of them! Toyota should make a Rav 4 Prime small truck and would totally crush that segment in the US!
I’m so glad someone finally understands me!!! If I had billions and the connections, I would’ve resurrected the volt in a heartbeat! It just MAKES SENSE!
Just bought a Chevy volt 2018 model with 50k miles from a guy selling it for 16k because he got a Tesla. The parking sensor issue is a slight nuisance but aside from that this car has been great to drive, having that immediate EV range to tap into is great. Would be cool if they brought this back.
Plug in hybrid is the way for a commuter for sure. I've owned 5 hybrids, and 2 plug ins now. My wife's daily is a 2017 Volt, which has been an awesome car. 90k miles now, and does 40-50miles on a charge. I think they are pretty cool looking too. We have nice wheels and a blackout package on it to make it more appealing. Looking forward to hydrogen.
There are countless examples through GM's history of doing this crap, great engineers make and develop something and the bean counters kill the project because they can't figure out how to sell it. The fiero was killed right as it hit development peak and finally selling, ruining Saturn by forcing them to rebadge GM crap instead of making their own cars, the entire handling of the modern cadillac brand, all the holden's they brought to NA, the original EV project.
I always thought the volt was pretty sporty looking for a compact hatch. Specially the first gen. If they bring it back I hope they make it look more like the first one!
Matt Farah has always said it’s one of the best cars ever made. The engineering behind it and the fit and finish made it closer to a 100k dollar car in terms of quality.
GM has such mind bogglingly terrible management it’s genuinely a miracle they haven’t gone bankrupt a hundred times over
Bought my loaded premium '14 Volt used during COVID May '20. Paid $7700. Immaculate. Quiet. Maintained. Now at 138k mi. and get 38-40 mi charge range, and miminum 42 mpg in town, with air (I'm in Phoenix). Just bought $25 of gas at Costco, first time since October. A car to swear by and not at. Sad part is, I'm a Ford guy, and Chevy smoked 'em. Future classic to be enjoyed now.
P.S. Dealer has offered to buy mine back for $8600... Physical evidence available. Doh!
My daily driving is 2 miles to work, 2 miles home for lunch. 2 miles back for work, 2 miles back home. Add a mile or two if I need groceries.
A plug in hybrid would be perfect for me. I have a motorcycle for when the weather isn't bad.
That’s bicycle distance
@@ThePwig it is, however taking a bicycle to work in Texas means showing up drenched in sweat or a heat stroke and the way the people here drive I'd be pancaked within a week. Unfortunately since I've moved to where I'm at now I'm hesitant to even ride for exercise given how bad the drivers in this town are. I thought the college town I lived in previously was bad from so many younger/new drivers but this is worse.
@@Cheater357 a fellow Houstonian I see
I passed up the opportunity to buy a 2018 Volt LT recently. In doing my due diligence and researching what is know about the 2nd gen Volt, I kept bumping into problems with the battery energy control module, problems that rendered the car inoperable. I couldn’t find information on how many Volts had this problem, but I decided that it was a risk I wasn’t willing to take. I am very sorry I had to pass on the car I looked at, because I really liked it, it was fun to drive, and looked great, too. Apparently, the 2019 models haven’t had this issue, so I may yet buy a Volt, if I can find one in my price range.
get the 2019 with the 7.2 kw onboard charger. You'll have the best experience this way
What about the Honda Clarity PHEV?
YES!! I bought a Cruze, another amazing car that’s now discontinued, and I really wanted a used Volt to be my next car. ALL of my trips are less than 30 minutes round trip.
I had a Ford CMAX loved the PHEV drivetrain. They just make it dork shaped so I sold it.
Also I think the unprofessionalism of the gm dealership network will sabotage anything they manage to do right. I have had to fix my volt myself because the dealerships don’t want to. They will give a quote for like 22k to swap a battery which now i have done and can do again myself in like 8 hrs.
Same experience here. Dealer refused to clear codes so I had to get my car towed home and then called a hobbyist to clear the codes for me. Drove it for another month before swapping the battery for another used one. Never buying another GM vehicle
They wonder why they cant sell enough EVs but yet the Chevy Bolt was one of if not the top selling EV this past year. It’s a no brainer buy…$27-32k for a car with 260 miles and tons of bells and whistles. Yeah the charging is slower but it works fine.
my issue with GM right now is not going to have android auto or Apple car play. so I don't even know if I want the newer chevy volts.
My '17 Volt Premiere is amazing and makes so much sense, I don't think I would ever want to pure EV. I've been getting 68 MPG combined!
I'm seriously considering getting a 2019 Volt- ($18k) just to keep miles off of our two main vehicles.
4.4L/100km is approx. 53.5 mpg
I really hope someone at GM sees this.
I wish a plug-in Corolla existed. I'd drive it 90% of the time.
what's the advantage of having a plug-in vs what they have in their hybrid now?
@jlatoo The ability to do my commute without starting the engine to begin with. It's not even a long enough drive to warm up. It only has about 10,000 miles but they've been some HARD miles. Saves on gas and large maintenance costs down the road.
@@Ichibuns oh that’s cool
I've got a '18 Volt wirh about 68.5k miles, and my display shows almost 80mpg (79.5-ish) fornthat very reason: my commute is almost perfect for my battery, so I plug it in when I get home, and no need to stop and get gas.
It would be cool to have all electric car dut hybrid is close as I can get where I live due to range and charger locations (would have to drive almost an hr and half to the closes one)
I love my 2019 Volt and I drive an entire year only spending $162.00 on a gas a year. I will now be buying a new Volt in 2025.
This is what should be subsidized, not complete electric with batteries or even hydrogen.
Use the batteries for when in cities, use the fuel engine for free way and to recharge the internal batteries for the electric engine.
this means cities will be quieter and have better air quality and you do not have range anxiety on the freeway and if you run out
of energy you can just recharge yourself with the internal generator . .
and you can say you drive a german u-boat with it being diesel-electric . .
Pure electric is the end goal we should be aiming for. But hybrids are a good middle ground.
Hydrogen has too many problem to be useful anywhere that electric is viable.
Current batteries are plenty for MOST people. The amount of FUD that continues to be spread is one of the barriers to adoption.
PHEV do make a ton of sense for the minority of the population where there isn’t enough charging infrastructure and they frequently do road trips.
I absolutely loved my Chevy Volt. It looked amazing inside and out. Great experience with that car.
I went to honda dealer here in Serbia. I was looking 3-4 civic models on the floor. I was asking about equipment and power and gearbox and seller didn't told me anything. 😂😂😂
It's not on site it's not on vehicle description on window.
He told me how much grams co2 per km and equipment list is one nonsense word.
Price is also secret 😂😂😂
He could have sold 2-3 civic that day to company where I work... But he chose secrecy.. we bought skoda superb
6:15 It is 220HP so 164KW. Pretty fast!
I have 329K miles on my 2013 Volt doing abusive food deliveries if you know what i mean. Bought another off ebay just in case. 1st gen looks cooler like an Autobot.
Fuel economy isn't that great if 1 were to never plug in, about 35MPG (US gallons). 2nd gen Volt more like 40. But Prius Prime is more like 55MPG before you get into battery range. But my Volt is perfect 4 me.
I don’t understand why Linus has a hard on for PHEVs. They’re the worse of both worlds. With the progress with batteries, there’s not a lot of need for PHEVs these days.
The argument that EVs are heavier is outdated - a Model 3 is lighter than many ICE BMWs/Audi’s
Still have a volt and it’s been my absolute fave! Best of both worlds and has saved us a ton on gas over the years while still being good for long road trips.
hydrogen is great if you don't look into it. If you do, you'll find that your car's hydrogen isn't made through the wonderous green electrolysis, but methane reforming instead. Which is very much not green in any way
I just googled it, the Prius Prime get's 44 miles on electric charge
LOVE THE VOLT SO MUCH BOUGHT TWO. Agree with you 💯 Thank you for spreading the word!!! Hope to buy a new VOLT soon in the coming years. Bring back the VOLT Plug in Hybrid!! First Gen VOLT looked the best. Second Gen volt ugly, but at least it was a five-seater. GM needs to invest in VOLT commercials that are hot eg cool celebrity promos!
GM was like, "Yes, let's kill the *_practical and affordable_* Volt (and Bolt) so we can push the Hummer and Lyric instead, because profit" . . . GM is ran by absolute short-sighted, money-hungry clowns
Funny how they predicted the economy would be healthy enough for a 100k behemoth EV
Only to be a 180 right now
I don't understand why more cars don't use In Series Plugin Hybrid. The gas engine ONLY recharges the Batteries.
They should bring it back.
its a dimension because you need the space to put 220 horses
I've owned my 2012 Volt since 15 and used 1500L according to its computer and driven it 130k km
PHEVs only make sense if you can charge at home. I can't so it doesn't make sense. Everybody here would have to go to the charger every day.
The thing with the Volt is that you don’t need some kind of fancy 220V to make it work…it’ll be just fine for most people on regular 110 at 12AMPs.
I would of bought one had it not been discontinued. Went with hyundai normal hybrid instead
Plug-in hybrids are quite a bit more expensive than their regular peers, but definitely less expensive than full EVs of the same size class. Same money, when it was new, could either get you a Skoda Superb plug-in hybrid or a 4wd diesel. Pretty much the same power, very different propulsion. And let me tell you - when overtaking in a plug-in hybrid, that electric boost is very significant and very useful. But if you have no access to home charging, don't bother
Adjusted for inflation, the Volt was $53,000 USD.
This would sell like hotcakes if redesigned for 2025
The battery being smaller doesn't mean you'll be mining less materials, since the smaller pack will be cycled more often. Every kWh of battery has a set total kWh of energy it will be able to give and take throughout its lifetime
You could even say that building smaller batteries is more wasteful since there's a fixed cost of materials required to build A battery, whatever the size
They should resurrect the Volt. Love my 2014 Volt Premier with 84k miles. I charge it daily. Have a lifetime 94mpg.
I regret not financing (i didnt know this was an option at the time) my 2017 Volt and instead i just let the lease run out and got a different cheap car. Now i have a Bolt 23 and have range anxiety and it SUCKS. Literally right now dealing with a wedding thats 6 hours away. If i drove with my Bolt i would be 8 hours with all the charging... i dont want to do that so not i have to borrow a family members car. If only i ALSO had a small gas tank... maybe they will actually come out with a plug-in hybrid again like the Volt but the thing is now they're doing away with CarPlay and Android auto for some custom software made by Google. I mean wtf how can GM really suck this bad?!?
Today I drove a 2021 Toyota Corolla Hybrid, not plug-in, and I was astounded that the owners were getting an average of 60 MPG (roughly 3.9L/100km). Even a 20-year-old Ford Escape Hybrid, which uses a 2.3l Atkinson engine and an earlier version of Toyota's hybrid transaxle and is in no way aerodynamically or efficiency optimized, still can get reliably over 30 MPG.
Dealerships which steuggle sell BEVs today only really have themselves to blame.
Bolts fly off the lot at the dealership I work at. New and used
Top Speed: Cucumbers
one main con to phev would be ethanol fuels, they have horrendous shelf life. they can start to go bad after as little as a month, separating green deposits and gum up everything. powersports only runs race gas cause its more consistent and no ethanol so shelf life is over 1 year. even 93 octane at a pump that states there is no ethanol actually has up to 10% ethanol.
ideally it would be a small displacement diesel generator designed to supplement batteries/motors, but the epa hates diesels with a passion so we dont see any like the rest of the world...
ah the Opel Ampera as we call it in Europe
or Vauxhall Ampera as we call it just outside Europe ;o)
Horsepower is the name of the horse-dimension
Car opinion from a car guy, hybrids makes sense on paper, but end up being heavy, complex, slow, and still need all the maintenance of a gas car, but with the addition of a bunch more failure points.
Edit: and chevy getting rid of carplay will be a reason I never buy a chevy
I've owned a 2014 volt for about three years. The range on battery is too low and that typical GM quality problem (especially with electronics) is a huge problem. I still love it. In three years I've used about 30 gallons of gas and the only repairs I've made have been due the crappy little generator they call an engine, not including the broken NAV system because I can't find a dealership that will touch it. And it's technically not a hybrid, its a full electric with a range extending generator. I need a new car badly but I don't think I can trust GM to make a quality product when they seem so focused on the money they make on repairs.
They know what it is - Linus is a massive proponent of the Rex-hybrid Volt
Love my Volt ❤❤❤. A KW = 1.34hp
Still rockin' my Volt. Thing is built in a tank and I hardly need to use the tank :)
GM constantly creates markets then exits just before making any money.
and hydrogen power cells ain't even new, they were used in Apollo. Also hydrogen can be produced greenly using wind power to generate electricity to split water into Hydrogen & Oxygen, something which is being done successfully in the Shetland Islands (off the North COast of Scotland)