Chevrolet Volt? This Is A Cool Car...

The Chevrolet Volt is a new type of vehicle called a series hybrid, which means that it runs on electric power 100% of the time...

It uses a small gasoline engine to charge the battery pack after it has depleted the li-ion pack down to 25% or at 40 miles, whichever comes first...

Called the E-Flex system, it gets around a major problem facing electric cars, that is, what do you do when the batteries are flat?

In sales speak, this is also called Range Anxiety...

The electric motor is a 120 kw unit, driven by a 16 kwh battery pack, and backed up by the small 1.4 liter gasoline engine driving a 53 kw generator that will be on only when charging.

Recharging will be done by simply plugging in a standard outlet in less than 8 hours at home...

One of the benefits of the Volt is that it seats four people, whereas most current ev cars seat only two...

A result of the this design is the fact that the battery is allowed to be much smaller than other ev cars, allowing more room for the designers to add a rear liftback to the car...

Also the vehicle has all of the expected safety feature that are in a modern car, like air conditioning, airbags, power brakes, and even regenerative braking, where the batteries are charged when decelerating by the electric motor...

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