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Volt for Real?

Plug In Partners

At that point, the internal combustion engine kicks in and recharges the battery while you are driving. While you are working, the battery is also recharging. The Volt will even make people forget that it was Lutz who gave us the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky. Imagine using your laptop computer on a battery. It runs down.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies. The GREET 1.6

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The fuel engine on the Volt is used to run the generator to recharge the battery when a trip exceeds 40 miles, and it’s rage on a full tank is around 400 miles. April 18, 2009 1:40 am Link I drive a Saturn SL1 that has over 300K miles on it. How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead?

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. The first VCRs were well over a $1000.00

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Tales From the Beat Episode 108: Dan Roth

The Truth About Cars

I wrote something about Saturn and the PR person for the, I'd done an interview with a woman who was the head of Saturn. You could charge it with a coal -fired power plant, you could charge it with a trash incinerator, you can charge it with solar panels, wind power. Well, that's great. So you could charge it with a generator.