ExpandĢ017 Chevy Volt Diary, Day 2: Hit the road Jack (take the kids, shopping) I’m currently willing to make these route/time sacrifices because I love EVs, clean air and my Tesla, but I don’t think mainstream users are OK with going hundreds of miles/several hours out of the way to make a medium-long trip electrically for the next few years. But Tesla wants to take that down to 5-10 minutes by the time the Model 3 is released and has all but abandoned its under 90 second battery swap plan. That means most DC charging “fill ups” will take at least 30 minutes. Teslas can currently charge at 135kW while most other EVs top out at 50kW. DC charging will also speed up over the next few years.
For one, currently three different DC fast charging standards exist (Tesla, SAE and Chademo) so there’s work needed to either consolidate or build ( more) adapters. The case is being made but there are still many obstacles outside of the $1 Trillion dollar Oil industry. We’re close, but we’re not there yet with electric infrastructure. Even going to an EV show in Montreal next month will require me to go 2-3 hours out of my way to stay charged up.ĭon’t get me wrong. To travel to my parents’ house in Ohio from New York, I need to avoid the straight shot Interstate 80 and dip down almost to Maryland to stay on the Supercharger route. But to finally close the convenience gap of gasoline and frankly beyond, pure electric cars need to be outfitted with high power DC chargers and long range batteries - both of which the Volt lacks.Īs a pure electric car owner, there are still a bunch of ski resorts in Vermont I can’t go to with my long range ‘200 mile’ electric car.
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Sure, almost every house, building and structure has an electrical outlet which can charge on level 1 or 2 (and the 2017 Volt does both levels of AC charging), meaning you wake up every morning with a full 53 mile “tank” of electricity. I say 3 years because I believe that is how long, give or take, it will take electric infrastructure in the US to be as convenient as gas – at which point it will become more convenient. The numbers don’t lie – Volt sales are up while some EV competitors are down. Overwhelmingly, the 2017 Volt is a fantastic car that will fit into many people’s lives and probably be one of the most functional mass-market electric cars for the next 3 years. It has definitely been a journey from my initial impressions to becoming extremely comfortable with the car in a matter of days. I’ve been forming my big picture opinion of the 2017 Chevy Volt over the past week and journaling the experience in a set of diary posts ( 1, 2, 3-4). Find the lowest purchase and lease price on our dedicated pricing pages. Electrek has done the hard work of finding the best deals. Chevy Volt PricingĪlthough the car is no longer being made, you can still find used models on various lots.
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The Chevy Volt was already the “most electric” of all plug-in hybrids, but the 2019 model year update made it even more electric than it already was. A 7.2 kW charging system cut recharging times nearly in half, by adding about twice the all-electric driving range per hour of charge (standard on Premier trim and available on LT trim). Toward the end of its life, the Chevy Volt was getting better and better on an all-electric range. While the fleet is slightly bigger, the Volt has been on the road for two more years. Hopefully, the percentage will go down with the increase in electric range that came with the 2016 Volt, which now has a fully electric EPA rating of 53 miles.įor comparison, Tesla’s global fleet of roughly 150,000 vehicles travelled over 2.6 billion electric miles. It’s an interesting statistic, which shows that the Volt successfully replaced with electric miles 1.5 billion miles that would have normally been gas-powered, but it also highlights the need for fully electric vehicles since GM’s Volt fleet still used gas for an important 40% of its total mileage. As we learned in 2016, GM delivered its 100,000th Chevy Volt in the US and the fleet racked up 1.5 billion electric miles on a total of 2.5 billion.
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“But at the end of the day, if we can get the battery chemistry vertically integrated, correct, and cost-effective, and our control systems are taking everything we’ve learned from Bolt and Volt on how to use the battery to get more range and be cost effective… the customer is going to be much, much happier by doing a pure EV than a stopgap. I love the Volt I was one of the early buyers of the Volt, and I get a lot of emails from Volt buyers and I get it,” said Reuss. It was killed in late 2018 in favor of an all-electric future. The Chevy Volt was a popular hybrid car from General Motors.
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