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Chevrolet Volt, Cadillac ELR, Holden Volt, Opel Ampera, Vauxhall Ampera Voltec , formerly known as E-Flex , is a General Motors powertrain released in November 2010. The Voltec architecture is primarily a plug-in capable, battery-dominant electric vehicle with additional fossil fuel powered series and parallel hybrid capabilities.
The Chevrolet Volt is a compact car that was produced by General Motors. The first generation of the Chevrolet Volt, it was manufactured at the Detroit facility until it was succeeded by the second and final generation of the Volt in 2015. It is a five-door liftback with a range-extending generator.
The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid and extended-range electric vehicle car that was manufactured by General Motors, and also marketed in rebadged variants as the Holden Volt in Australia and New Zealand and the Buick Velite 5 in China, and with a different fascia as the Vauxhall Ampera in the United Kingdom and as the Opel Ampera in the remainder of Europe.
The Volt gets 38 miles of all-electric range, the Prius Prime is rated for 39 (44 with smaller wheels). How did we go so damn long with only minimal improvements on the original PHEV formula?
When General Motors (NYS: GM) CEO Dan Akerson went before a congressional committee to defend the Chevy Volt yesterday, he didn't mince words: "Although we loaded the Volt with state-of-the-art ...
At the Volt's debut, GM engineers said the second generation Volt was developed using extensive input from first generation owners. [29] [30] Frontal view of the 2017 model year Chevrolet Volt. Production of the 2015 model year Volt ended by mid-May 2015, while manufacturing of pre-production units of the second generation began in March 2015. [31]
The Chevrolet Volt is a series plug-in hybrid referred by General Motors as "an electric car with extended range." General Motors describes the Chevrolet Volt as an electric vehicle equipped with a 16 kWh battery plus a "range extending" gasoline powered internal combustion engine (ICE) as a genset and therefore dubbed the Volt an "Extended ...
Electric cars have been a surprisingly hard sell in this country, and the road ahead for them is about to get even harder. General Motors (GM) is temporarily halting production of Chevy Volt vehicles.