Chevy Volt 2017 Review: An Electric Car With A Gas Assistant
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Cars.com's Chevy Volt at 18,000 Miles
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hi I'm Joe wiesenfeld with cars.com this
is the cars.com chevrolet volt we have
put almost 18,000 miles on it we've had
it over a year
it's a 2011 model when you own a car for
a while some of the initial issues just
fade away and others come to the
forefront
i'm going to share with you the lasting
likes and dislikes
after more than a year of service one
thing we like is how the car looks in a
world of exceptionally dorky-looking
efficient cars consensus is that the
Volt is a good looker
we also like driving on electric power
something very satisfying about it
it ends up costing about half as much
per mile than driving a comparable
gas-powered car and we make in frequent
stops at the gas station
but that raises one thing we really
don't like when you go to fill the tank
you're going to open it up and see a
little sticker that says 91 octane that
means premium is required
not recommended now the car gets about
37 miles per gallon once the engine
turns on that's in city highway driving
combined which isn't bad it's really
more of an existential problem when you
buy a car to save not just the
environment but a little bit of money
when you go fill it up and have to pay
extra for premium gas
it just bugs us one thing we appreciate
is how well the Volt predicts its
electric range before the gas engine
turns on our nissan leaf is not nearly
as good at that
one thing we're not as wild about is the
actual range when it gets cold out
it goes down to about 25 miles of range
on electric which would probably happen
to any electric car brings the range
down but if you're considering buying
you're going to have to think about the
reality especially based on the
temperature where you live not on the
advertised 40 miles of range
another thing we have one editor who
likes the touch-sensitive control panel
here the rest of us would rather have
real buttons and not so scatter shot in
their arrangement one lingering problem
we have is visibility the roof shoots
out pretty far forward which makes it
hard to see traffic signals and street
signs for some people and then the rear
view is also not so great
the pillar is quite large the spoiler
splits the rear window and this bottom
one does a really good job of collecting
dust
and moisture and generally not being a
very good rear window
we can't imagine owning this car without
the back up camera for parking purposes
the backseat is definitely snug I have
less of an issue with it then some
people do with the driver's seat my
driving position i find this okay
greater issue for some is the center
console whether they're in the front or
the rear
they find it restrictive maybe a little
claustrophobic but there's a even bigger
problem with it and that is when parents
go to install child safety seats you
might not realize it when you have a
regular bench rear seat
the center position even if you don't
use it is good spillover space child
safety seats are even larger than the
American babies we put in them that can
restrict them depending on the type of
seat and the size it's definitely a
short coming
the vault has been pretty cheap to own
we put a washer fluid in it had the
tires rotated for about twenty bucks
I haven't even had to put oil in it
because it hasn't needed it yet
we did replace this unit after about
seven months because the court separated
that was under warranty other issues
with this home charger is that the court
is so short it makes you want to plug it
into a an extension cord or hang it from
the court
two things you're not supposed to do
this is a code issue though so other v's
have the same general lengths to their
plugs i wish they would change it
especially makes an issue if you're in
public and the 240 volt pistol grip is
being used by someone else
that leaves an outlet and you have to
plug in this thing and find a way to
hang it
not by the cord we came up with this
just a way to secure it
dang it not the best situation the
biggest questions about the Volt really
apply to other v's is it worth the money
you spend initially
how about the issue of short and range
when it's cold outside
in terms of the vault itself aside from
the dislikes i mentioned we've been
pretty satisfied with it
it's a real car for short distances for
long distances we've been happy with it
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Chevrolet Volt Concept
Cars.com:
I'm Patrick Olsen for cars.com we're
here at the Detroit Auto Show at the GM
booth
looking at the Chevy Volt GM's new
electric car concept we talk to GM
representative Tony Posawatz about
the car
Tony can you walk through this car is
different from hybrids another of your
car's
I'd like to say it's an electric
vehicle the Chevy Volt
drives completely and entirely using
GM's Eflix electric propulsion system
so its electric vehicle that only
requires
an engine generator turn on to create
more electricity
so its electric vehicle with
battery-powered that can go
forty miles for most customers that's
what they drive
forty or less they would use no gas when
you go beyond your forty miles
we create electricity on board by by
utilizing an engine generator set
burning a little bit of fuel to create
more electricity
so you can go about 640 miles how does
the plugin work
a plugin ports are located here it's a
110 volt 15 amp
so no special equipment is required and you what you have to do then
is wait about six hours overnight what will
the difference be in cost to consumers
electricity costs off-peak rates a lot
less than fuel probably about one-fifth
the cost the fuel
what's different about the interior this
car than other cars that you guys have
produced
Interestingly enough the interior of the
vehicle
has the opportunity to viewed upon
from the outside the vehicle
with the very unique GE plastics
composite panels we have so you can seefrom the side shot of the vehicle
the vehicle has both a low and
tall beltline tall beltline stylus love
a low beltline allows for great
visibility for passengers
and for the driver for safety
perspective so we can see the very
unique contoured seats
we can see a fascinating cluster display
that makes the experience of driving it
advanced technology and fuel-efficient
car real alive for the customers
Tony how long before consumers could
see this car in their driveway
we've we're going full speed ahead in
the vehicle side were a little concerned
that there is no battery that exists
today to help because it's very very
much dependent on a very big battery
but we're encouraged by the progress
that we've seen a look and I am
batteries without battery is ready in a
few years
will be ready when we what we think is a
very exciting revolutionary vehicle
thanks Tony you can see more on Cars.com or our blog
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Electric Trio: The Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model 3 Square Off | Edmunds
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DAN EDMUNDS: What we have here
are three electric vehicles
that are well known,
perhaps because each
is a dedicated EV that has
no gasoline counterpart.
Chevrolet has plugged
everything they
learned from their Bolt plug-in
hybrid into the Bolt EV.
JASON KAVANAGH: The Model 3
represents Tesla's first foray
into a more accessible EV.
CALVIN KIM: And the Nissan
LEAF, the first widely available
electric vehicle in
the United States,
is now in its second generation.
And while they're all
mainstream offerings,
they're not true
direct competitors.
JASON KAVANAGH:
Today, we're going
to explore the differences and
similarities among these three
popular EVs.
Well, the Tesla Model 3 has
a lot of power, actually.
I mean, there's no
complaints that I have
with the acceleration in this.
And like all EVs, it
has that instant torque.
You can punch around cars on the
freeway pretty much instantly.
I mean, you dip your foot
down on the accelerator,
and there's just an instant
reaction from the car.
That's one of the
things that EVs
and in particular, the
Tesla does really well.
DAN EDMUNDS: One of
the things I like
about the Bolt is it's quick.
I'm just rolling into the
throttle, not really laying
into it hard at all.
And it's up to speed
and in a short order.
And I am having no problem
getting around folks.
People think these
things are golf carts.
Uh-uh.
CALVIN KIM: The Nissan LEAF has
what sounds like a low number--
146 horsepower.
But it's the torque that
really gives it the beans.
It's got about 236,
possibly the torque.
Don't quote me on that.
But 236 is a lot for
a small car like this.
The car weighs
about 3,500 pounds.
So it's well in line.
I mean, basically, it'd
be equivalent to a bigger
engine in a compact car.
Needless to say, acceleration
is easy and brisk.
JASON KAVANAGH: Well, compared
to the Bolt or the LEAF,
the Tesla Model 3 is
definitely the most powerful.
It's the most capable.
It's also the most expensive.
It's also the only rear-wheel
drive EV of the three.
The other two are
front-wheel drive.
And that affects the driving
dynamics in a beneficial way
for the Model 3.
The Model 3 has the best
steering and handling
of the bunch by far.
It's just a more
grown-up feeling
car in the way it
goes down the road.
The steering feel
is really good.
It corners flat.
It picks up its speed
well over bumps.
In terms of steering
and handling,
the other two don't
touch the Tesla Model 3.
DAN EDMUNDS: The
Bolt handles great.
I mean, you wouldn't
think so to look at it.
It's tall and skinny.
But the battery pack is low
and underneath the floor,
so that keeps the
center of gravity low.
And that makes it feel
more like a go-cart
than an SUV or
something like that.
The steering is also
nicely weighted.
It's immediate, but not darty.
It's just what you want to kind
of maneuver around in traffic.
JASON KAVANAGH: Now,
the range in the Model 3
is kind of its trump card.
We got the long-range
version, which
has a 310-mile max range
in normal mode, which
is what Tesla recommends you
use on a day-to-day basis.
This will do 279 miles, which
is still really impressive.
It's still more range
than the other two.
In fact, it's the longest range
EV you could buy currently.
CALVIN KIM: This
face-lift of LEAF--
you get 150 miles
of claimed range.
Wonderfully for us, if
you put it in ECO mode
and enable e-Pedal, you can
get a lot more than that.
With our long-term
LEAF, we've been
able to drive it a
little bit already.
And we've routinely
gotten over 150 miles
with those features enabled.
That's great news for
commuters, especially
those that drive a little
bit longer distances.
So they can go a week
without charging.
Now, for EV owners,
the best way to do it
is to charge every night.
But, hey, if you're going to
go visit a friend's house,
or maybe go across town
to hang out somewhere,
it's nice to have that option.
DAN EDMUNDS: The Model
3 has a higher range
rating than this one.
But I don't really think
that at actual practice
that would be the case.
Because I've had a
really hard time getting
close to the Model 3's rating.
And yet, with this car, which
is rated at 238, I've gone 334.
That's almost 100 miles
more than the rating.
And if I'm paying for
more battery than I need,
then that's a big part
of the price of the car.
And this car could be cheaper
if it had a 150-mile range
or a 175-mile range.
CALVIN KIM: One of
the best advantages
of electric vehicles is
the ability to regenerate,
which is regenerative braking.
That means you can use an
electric motor that propels
you to help slow you down.
And one thing that
they did very cleverly,
though, is give you a
switch right on the center
console here called e-Pedal.
And just by clicking the
switch, you immediately
engage that
regenerative braking.
Nissan says you can
break as much as 2/10
of a "g," which doesn't
sound like a lot,
but from our
testing, it's plenty.
JASON KAVANAGH:
And in the Model 3,
the regenerative
effect is strong.
You can basically
one-pedal drive this thing
most of the time.
DAN EDMUNDS: Now, the Bolt is
especially good in this regard,
better than I think any
other car that you can buy,
any other EV.
Because when it's in
drive, like it is now,
I toggle using this here.
When it's in drive, there's
no regenerative braking.
It's all pads and rotors, so
the brake feels utterly natural.
A lot of cars--
EVs and hybrids use something--
a computer that kind of
decides whether it's
going to be regenerative
or brake pedal, based on demand.
And so then the
brakes feel weird.
This never feels weird, indeed.
And then when you
put it in L, there's
so much regenerative braking
that the brake lights come on.
And you can actually execute a
stop all the way down to zero
without ever touching
the brake pedal.
You just modulate the throttle.
Compared to the
Model 3 and the LEAF,
I like the Bolt's
setup much better.
Click it into L. You've
got all the regen you want.
Put it in D. You've got the
brake pedal feel you want,
if you want that.
The Model 3-- it's poke
through the touchscreen.
And the LEAF requires
you to flip a switch,
and you may not
remember to do it.
And it's not where you
think it should be.
This is really intuitive,
really easy, and very effective.
CALVIN KIM: Inside
the Nissan LEAF,
you'll find a pretty
much traditional car.
The materials are good.
There's not a lot of busyness
with the colors and design
choices.
We're in the top SL
model, so the seats
are this nice leather
with microsuede inserts.
The controls-- again, easy
to use, well laid out.
Again, it's more like a regular
car, instead of maybe a science
project, or a sci-fi set you'll
find in some of the other EVs.
DAN EDMUNDS: The one thing
that really disappoints
me more than anything
else about the Chevy Bolt
is the quality of the
interior materials.
It's just hard plastic
which would be OK
if it was attractive.
But there's just a
lot of weird lines.
And this color scheme
is kind of hard to take.
I mean, I would trade
away some battery capacity
and range to get
a better interior.
I mean, it doesn't
help that we've
got the light-colored
interior here.
I think that really does not
show it in its best light.
A darker color might
mask some of this stuff,
even like the reflections of the
dashtop or in the windshield.
Everywhere I go at just
about any light condition.
And that's kind of annoying,
because the visibility as a car
is great otherwise.
This car is probably
the least well equipped
of the three when it comes
to active driver aids.
It has a Lane Keeping
Assist System.
It has a Forward
Collision warning,
but it doesn't have
Adaptive Cruise.
It has nothing like Autopilot
or Nissan's ProPILOT Assist.
That's not bad because
you're not paying for it.
But at the same time,
it does lag behind.
And you couldn't get those
things if you wanted them.
JASON KAVANAGH: The design
of the Model 3's interior
is pretty unusual.
There's not a whole
lot of stuff in it.
I mean, it's a wide-open
space with a big touchscreen
in the middle, and
that's about it.
I mean, you could
even go and say
that maybe this is a
little generic looking.
But what you can't say is that
it's cluttered or crowded.
It feels really breezy
and airy in here.
There's a lot of space.
If you need anything, you
have to go to the touchscreen.
Or you've got a couple of
controls on the steering wheel,
and that's about it.
A good amount of
headroom for me.
I'm over 6 feet tall.
It does have this panoramic
sunroof arrangement
up here, which gives you a
little bit extra headroom.
Compared to the Bolt and the
LEAF's interior, or the Model
3's cabin-- is
definitely a departure.
And some people really love it.
And some people--
they're maybe going
to have to warm up
to it a little bit.
In terms of material
quality, the Model 3
does pretty well there.
The seats are this
synthetic leather,
which feels pretty convincing,
and looks like the real thing.
There's this synthetic
suede on the headliner
and on the door panels.
There's also this wood
applique on the dashboard.
Overall, the materials look
pretty good at a glance.
If you look closer at
the Model 3, though,
you'll notice some build
quality issues here and there--
cheap plastics, things
that don't fit quite right.
We've had some issues with
things falling off our car.
But it is built to a
higher price point,
certainly than the
Bolt or the LEAF is.
CALVIN KIM: The Nissan
LEAF is a hatchback
which means, obviously,
it's got a big hatch.
A lot of interior cargo room
with the seats folded up.
The rear seats do fold 60/40.
You'll find that once
you do fold them up,
there is a bit of a shelf
from the seatback to the cargo
floor.
But I'd say that between
its comp competitors,
this general cargo
area is very useful--
the low-loading height,
and the nice, deep floor,
and the tall ceiling height.
So you can fit taller cargo,
bulkier cargo in a little bit
easier.
DAN EDMUNDS: Of
the three, the Bolt
does have the least
cargo-carrying capacity
on paper.
But it is very flexible,
because of the way
the seats fold, the
way the floor can
be set into two positions.
And because you can
put roof racks on it.
JASON KAVANAGH:
The Model 3 might
look like a hatchback
from the outside,
but surprise, it's
a sedan, which
means it has a
traditional sedan trunk.
But that's no bad thing, because
the Model 3's cargo space
is pretty huge.
Not only is the trunk really
deep and a good width,
there's extra bonus storage
in the floor of the trunk
and an additional trunk
at the front of the car.
So you're not hurting for
cargo space at all in this.
Another thing it has is a
60/40 folding backseat, which
goes basically completely flat.
You could sleep in the
back of the Model 3
if you fold the seats down.
That's how much space there is.
CALVIN KIM: Compared
to its competitors,
the LEAF prices pretty well.
Now, in this SL trim with the
Pro-PILOT Assist and everything
like that, that'll set you
back a little over $37,000.
That's a little bit
less than the Bolt
Obviously, a lot less
than the Model 3.
And the federal tax credit is
still available for this car,
so you can get out the door
for a lot less than that.
You do get a lot of
car for your money.
The biggest attractor,
though, will be the range.
Both the Bolt and
the Tesla Model 3
have a lot more range
than the LEAF does.
Now, for those that are truly
range conscious that really do
want to go on
longer trips, rumor
has it that the Nissan LEAF--
bringing out a higher
range LEAF next year--
one with a 60-kilowatt battery
that cracks the 200 barrier.
Even if you're on
the fence about that,
this standard range
LEAF with 150 miles
is nothing to sneeze at.
DAN EDMUNDS: The
thing about this car
is you can buy it with
a premium package,
or you can get the
lower-priced base
model that does everything as
far as the driving experience.
It just doesn't have as
many bells and whistles
for a lot less money.
The Model 3-- right now,
the mythical $35,000 one
doesn't exist.
It's vaporware.
Certainly, this is a lot
less money than the Model 3.
If the $35,000 one
ever comes out,
well, we may have
to re-evaluate that.
JASON KAVANAGH: When the
Model 3 was launched,
it was purported to be the
$35,000 entry-level Tesla.
While that might
be the case, Tesla
is not shipping the $35,000
variant of the Model 3.
They're only shipping
a long-range variance.
And once you have
even a bare minimum
of options like this one--
I mean, this one's
sticker price is $55,000.
So we're in a totally different
segment than the other two
cars, which are substantially
less expensive than this one.
Tesla's Autopilot system
makes Nissan Pro-PILOT Assist
look like it's in diapers.
And in a way, it is.
It's Nissan's first attempt
at a semi-autonomous driving
mode, whereas Tesla has
had several years now
of real-world use of Autopilot.
And they've accumulated
a lot of data.
With that said, it's
not a perfect system.
We've discovered some
issues with it in the past.
But the continual
software updates
are a means to
address limitations,
not just in Autopilot, but
in any system in the car.
So again, pros and
cons with being
at the leading edge of things.
CALVIN KIM: Definitely one
of the coolest features
of the LEAF is Pro-PILOT Assist.
Now, it's not an
autonomous driving system.
What it is, though, is
a very, very connected
driver-assist system.
Now, just one button push
on the steering wheel
enables the system.
And then to turn it on, you just
activate your cruise control.
Now, what that gives you
is adaptive cruise control,
which keeps the distance from
ourselves and the car in front.
It does lane centering to--
keeps the car in the
center of the road.
And it'll even bring
you to a complete stop.
It's not a self-driving car.
All it's doing is just
keeping it in the center
and at a safe distance
from the car in front.
In an interesting twist of
fate, this system actually
works pretty darn good, even
alongside the Tesla's Autopilot
system.
Now, the Tesla has
the advantage of a GPS
and a connected system, where
it knows road conditions
to a certain extent.
The Nissan does not
have that feature set.
But considering the price
premium that Autopilot has
and that Tesla has, we believe
Pro-PILOT is a fantastic
addition to the Nissan LEAF.
DAN EDMUNDS: The thing
about the Bolt EV
is while I like
the way it drives,
I'd trade some of its range
for a nicer interior and better
seats.
JASON KAVANAGH: Yeah.
And while the Model
3 is definitely
the best driving,
most capable EV here,
you're going to pay
for the privilege.
The least expensive Model
3 you can get is $50,000.
The $36,000 version
just doesn't exist yet.
CALVIN KIM: Speaking of price,
that's the Nissan LEAF's forte.
It's the least expensive.
But it's also one of the more
comfortable out of the three,
which begs the question,
which of these three EVs
is the right one for you guys?
DAN EDMUNDS: Well, for me,
151 miles of range is enough.
And I do like those
seats, so yeah, the LEAF.
JASON KAVANAGH: Yeah.
For me, the cost is the
single overriding factor.
And while I don't think the
Nissan LEAF is necessarily
the best driving one
here, its price point
is really attractive.
So that's the one for me.
CALVIN KIM: Well,
we're unanimous.
It's the LEAF for
me also, thanks
to its price and practicality.
DAN EDMUNDS: But I
do reserve the right
to change my mind
when the $36,000 Tesla
Model 3 becomes available.
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2017 Chevy Volt or Tesla Model 3? Review of Volt.
The 8-Bit Guy:
Most of my viewers are aware that I love technology
and I've been driving a 2013 Chevy Volt for
quite some time. And I've been watching the
information coming out about the Tesla model
3, which appears to be a really cool car.
I think I'll go out and buy one. Oh, wait
a minute. That's not a Tesla, that's a second
generation Volt. So, yeah, after test driving
the new Volt I really decided there was no
real good reason to wait 2 to 3 years in order
to buy a Tesla Model 3. And, you know, when
I look online, on youtube for example, there
really just aren't any good reviews of the
Chevy Volt. And you know, my go to channel
for watching Ev related stuff is, of course,
Robert Llewellyn's Fully Charged show. I'll
put a link to it down in the description.
And since he lives in the U.K. he can't really
review a Volt so I just decided to take it
upon myself to do a proper review of this
car. A lot of people think that the Volt "is
just a hybrid like the Prius, Right?". It's
not. "It shares a lot of similar technology,
so it must be the same, right?" Well, you
know what? Mila Kunis shares 96% of her DNA
with a Chimpanzee, but which one would you
rather take home
with you? Other people think "it's just an
electric car that can only drive 53 miles
before stranding you!" Wrong! The Volt is
one of the few cars that can run either on
electric or gasoline. Now, since I've owned
an EV for several years, I'm well aware of
the three big questions that people always
ask. And those are: How fast, how far, and
how much? In the words of Chelsea Sexton.
How far, how fast, how much. These are the
three questions we're getting, please put
it in the advertising, it's not rocket science.
So I'm going to start by tackling those 3
questions. I'm going to start with number
one: HOW FAST? Now, where can I go to do a
proper test of this car? Oh, I know, how about
the drag strip? All right, I am in line. And
a little nervous, I've never done anything
like this before. It's kind of hot in here
because they say you can't have your air conditioning
on and I need the windows up because it's
so freaking noisy outside. So for the first
time I wanted to go full out, all electric
mode. Well, at least I know I'm not the slowest
car at the track.In my first time to run down
the track, I wasn’t even sure if I was supposed
to go, so you’ll notice I actually let off
the accelerator temporarily, which undoubtedly
hurt my time. I guess my screw up didn’t
matter because the scoring system wasn’t
even working this time so I couldn’t even
see my time. Well, here's something I don't
do every day. So I got in line again, and
this time I ended up by myself. I’m still
doing EV mode this time. I had to roll down
my window down and it messed up my camera,
which I didn’t have time to fix. I got my
ticket, and here’s the result.So the 3rd
time, I put the car into hold mode, which
means it will run on gasoline, to see if there
is any difference. And I ended up with a souped
up pickup truck next to me this time. For
some reason my interior camera wasn’t recording,
so I don’t have that angle to show. I noticed
right away the car was slower off the line
in this mode. And the results here confirm
that. So this is reaction time, and yeah..
I suck. But I can’t be too hard on myself
being this was my first time. Also this time
has no effect on the rest of these numbers
I’m about to show you. This is how long
it took to get to 60 feet. You can see EV
mode was much faster. But what is more interesting
is comparing this to other cars. For example,
look at the different Tesla Model S. You can
see that the Volt fits right in here, actually
being faster off the line than a base model
Tesla. And this is how long it took to get
to 330 feet, again EV mode being faster. And
this was the speed the car was traveling when
it reached 330 feet. This shows how long it
took to complete the 1/8 mile strip. Again,
EV mode being faster. And finally, the speed
I was traveling when I hit the end. Now what’s
interesting here is that gas mode was actually
faster here. Indiciating that when in gas
mode there may more power in the upper speeds,
even though takeoff power is less.OK, so definitively
answer how fast this car is, well it's plenty
fast. In fact, it's quicker off the line than
most cars except for legitimate performance
cars. So, I don't think there's going to be
any problem with how fast it is. OK, so to
answer the question of how far it can go.
Well, when I tell people that it can go 53
miles, sometimes they reply and go "is that
all?" And you know, I think a lot of people
just don't have a good conception of how far
a mile is, much less 53 of them. I think a
lot of people just fill up their tanks, run
it
until it goes empty and fill it up again and
they don't really pay attention to how far
they've driven. So I've devised a little trip
to help you better understand exactly how
far this car can go in electric mode. I live
in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Now to
give you an idea of how large this metro area
is, here's the state of Connecticut overlaid.
So DF/W is essentially the same size as the
entire state. and by sheer coincidence, if
you were to start at the far end of loop 820
and drive to the far side of 635 it is exactly
53 miles. For my trip, I'm going to start
in downtown Fort Worth, sometimes referred
to locally as Cowtown. I'm taking a stroll
through the Watergardens. This is an amazing
place, I recommend people visit. And for those
nerds following my channel, you might recognize
this from the Cult sci-fi classic Logan's
Run which was filmed around here. And I'll
take a short walk back to my car, which I
have at a public charting station at a Walgreens.
The reason for this is that I wanted to start
my journey with a full charge. As you can
see on the dash, it's fully charged. And if
you look here, you'll see it reset our trip
meter to zero miles and zero kilowatthours
used. Arlight, so we just left downtown Fort
Worth and I'm headed towards Dallas. Now,
I'm going to try to do the speed limit. Which,
we're going 70 miles per hour right now, I
don't even know... oh look, the speed limit
is 60! I guess I had better slow down. Because,
you
know, I want to be realistic with this trip.
And you know, electric vehicles are kind of
opposite of gasoline vehicles. They actually
perform better in city traffic at lower speeds,
as far as efficiency goes. So if we're doing
a range test, driving out here on the highway
is going to put it to a pretty realistic test.
Because, if it will go this far on the highway,
you know it will go that much further in the
city. So we left Fort Worth and headed towards
Dallas. All right, we're about half way between
Fort Worth and Dallas and I'm going to take
a little detour here. Just right off the freeway,
I want to show you another little important
landmark of Dallas/Fort Worth. I'm going to
stop by the Dallas Cowboys stadium. At this
point, you can see I have travelled 16.1 miles
and the car is telling me I can still travel
another 43 miles on battery power. So here
we are at the AT&T or the cowboys stadium.
I'm not a big sports fan, but I've been told
that this is the best place to come during
tornado season because there's no chance of
a touchdown here. Unfortunately, it looks
like we're going to get stuck in some traffic,
which is not normal for a Sunday. So, we were
stuck in the traffic jam for about 10 minutes,
which didn't really hurt our range test since
EVs are actually more efficient in this sort
of traffic. So after a long drive, we were
finally approaching downtown Dallas. All right,
so we have arrived in downtown Dallas. Now,
we have travelled 36.1 miles and we have been
on the road for an hour and ten minutes. And,
we have used just a little over half of the
range of the battery and it's still saying
I have 19 miles left. Now, there are some
charging stations in this area, but I've decided
not to use them because that would kind of
defeat the whole purpose behind what we're
trying to do here. We're trying to see how
far it goes until it runs out. So I'm not
going to charge up. So I decided to get out
and walk to another interesting landmark just
down the street. This is the Kennedy memorial.
This is the location of the assasination of
John F. Kennedy back in November of 1963.
The shot came out of one of these windows.
This little X in the street is the actual
location of Kennedy's car when he was shot.
Then we left Dallas and headed back to Fort
Worth. We made it about this far before the
car ran out of battery power and seamlessly
switched to gasoline mode. OK, so we just
switched over to gasoline power. it was seamless,
just driving down the road, didn't have to
do anything. We did travel 49.1 miles on electric.
It is kind of hot outside today. We've been
running the air conditioner pretty hard, so
that probably did eat a few miles of the range
off. And so to really answer the question
how far it can go. Well, if you drive in gas
mode, it can go as far as you want it to go,
and you'll get a whopping 42 miles per gallon
while using gas, so on to the next big question.So,
Chevrolet lists the base model starting at
$33,220. But looking at my window sticker,
you'll see I have a base model with a few
upgrades and mine cost $36,735 Of course,
I didn't pay anywhere near that much for this
car. In fact I wouldn't even be able to afford
the car if I had to pay that much for it.
You see, I started off with a generous discount
since my father is a retired GM employee.
Then I got another $500 off because I had
a competing lease on a Nissan Leaf that my
wife was driving. And then I get $7,500 off
of my taxes from the federal government. So
I just loaned myself $7,500 from my savings
account, which I will get back at the end
of the year when I do my taxes. And so the
amount I actually paid for the car puts it
right in the same ballpark as a Prius. And
according to Chevrolet's website, you can
lease one for $299 per month with no money
down. So why anyone would buy a Prius instead
of this, I have no idea. Another extremely
common question that I get is is how long
does it take the car to charge? Now, that's
a perfectly valid question but it's also extremely
annoying because there's no one specific answer.
There's so many
different variables that account for how fast
it takes to charge. For the Volt it charges
is 4.5 hours from a commercial charging station,
or a 240V station in your garage. Now keep
in mind that's 4 and a half hours assuming
the battery has to charge from empty. But
let's be honest, with 53 miles of range, it's
probably pretty rare that you will be charging
a completely empty battery. More realistically
most people will probably be around half full
at the end of the day when plugging in, which
means more like 2 hours to charge. Now if
you decide to charge from the included 120V
charging cable, that plugs into any standard
outlet it can range from 13 hours on a 12
amp socket to as much as 18 hours on an 8-amp,
again assuming you are starting with an empty
battery. Now,
unfortunately, the Volt does not support DC
fast charging. If you take a look at some
commercial stations, you'll notice they will
have a regular 240 volt connector that works
in pretty much any electric vehicle. But some
will have this larger connector, notice the
extra prongs! Using this, you'll count the
charge time in minutes rather than hours.
But like I said, the Volt doesn't support
it. And, you know, I think I know why. I believe
the thinking at General Motors is that it
is, after all, a Plug-in Hybrid.It has a gasoline
engine so it's not like you're going to be
stranded. You don't absolutely need to have
the fast charge feature. And to be honest,
you need a reason to run the gas engine every
now and then because if you don't the car
will actually force you to burn a little bit
of gas to keep it from going stale. In fact,
the only reason fast charging is
even a topic of discussion on this car can
be attributed to the fact it has such a large
battery compared to other plug-in hybrids.
Only one other hybrid has more EV range than
the Volt. I mean, nobody even talks about
having fast charging on any of these other
hybrids because the range isn't long enough
to matter. Oh, and one more thing. Officially
speaking, this charger that comes with
the car is only supposed to support 120 Volts.
However, many people online have found that
this particular charger that comes with the
2016 and 2017 Volt, is actually capable of
running at 240V just by putting an adapter
on this cable and plugging it into a 240V
socket. At which point, you can charge twice
as fast although still not quite as fast as
a full fledged level 2 charger. However,
General Motors does not officially acknowledge
this and there's no guarantee all of the chargers
are the same, so I would try that at your
own risk. Now , My car is a base model So
there are a lot of features like adaptive
cruise control, for example, that I can't
show you because I just don't have them. But
it does have LED headlights, which you pretty
much have to experience to really appreciate,
and of course it helps save on some battery
power as compared to traditional halogen lights.
Also the interior lights are LED and there's
also little LED accent lights in places such
as the door handles. In fact, it looks really
cool at night. It's as close as you'll ever
get to being in a space ship. It has a lighted
charge port that flashes along with the indicator
on the dash to let you know the state of charge.
1 blink is 1 quarter full, 2 blinks is half
full, then 3
quarters, 4 blinks is almost done, and a solid
light means it is fully charged.The center
console does support Apple CarPlay so you
can plug your iPhone into it and certain apps
that support the feature will appear on the
display. The most helpful one is maps, of
course. I didn't even bother to buy satellite
navigation in this vehicle. And you can see
why. Of course, I'm a cheapskate so I wouldn't
have paid for it anyway. Now over time, more
and more apps are going to support this. Of
course, it can play MP3's from a USB stick,
but that's nothing new, my old Volt would
do that. But, what's interesting is what it
lacks - which is a CD player. Not that I'm
going to miss it anymore
than I would miss having a tape deck in my
car.The main instrument display is really
cool. Down here on the left, it shows an estimate
of your EV range remaining. Along with a bar
graph here giving a visual representation.
Over here, this shows your energy usage on
battery power. So when I punch it hard, you
can see the power move up, and when I regenerate
power, you can see it go down. Also the very
top shows you exactly how many kilowatts you
are using in realtime. This is very similar
to the meter you might have on the side of
your house. Now, of course, on the other side
you have your fuel tank graph, and the number
of miles you can travel on fuel if you desire
to
switch over to gas. And of course, the engine
has its own little power reading as well,
which only moves in one direction, showing
the power output. It will also show all kinds
of different information, even bizarre stuff
like coolant temperature. And if you change
stations on your radio, using the steering
wheel controls, it will show that. If you
change the volume, it will show that. And
there's a whole menu of customizable features.
The little climate control knob is cool. Of
course, it has heated seats and a heated steering
wheel, which will help save you range in the
winter if it means you can avoid running the
cabin heater which really sucks a lot of battery
power. The smartphone app lets you do some
cool stuff like start your air-conditioning,
check your available battery range, and many
other cool things. It will even let you locate
your car on a map, like your own personal
lojack. I also had my friend Rob, who's very
tall try out the front seat to see if it would
fit well for him. OK, so I'm 6 foot 5 and
for a car this size, this is really cavernous.
I'm actually very comfortable. No knees hitting
the steering wheel. This would be an easy
car for me to drive. And I was able to get
this entire basket full of stuff into the
hatchback with no problems. So I had been
waiting for Elon Musk to reveal the Tesla
Model III. Now, Elon says its going to be
revolutionary since it is a great looking,
great performing electric car with long range
capability and will sell for $35,000. It sounds
great. I wouldn't mind having one. But its
at least 2 or 3 years away before I would
be able to get one. Yet, the truth of the
matter is, the 2017 Volt is available today
and already fills all of those check boxes.
Now, I'm not saying the Volt is better than
the Model III. In fact, we won't really be
able to make that determination until the
Model III comes to market. But what I am saying
is that if you are waiting 2 to 3 years to
buy a car that just fits those particular
check boxes, wait no longer. Go buy a Volt!
2016 Chevrolet Volt Review
Cars.com:
the redesign chevrolet volt plug-in
hatchback has some impressive new
capabilities but is that enough to get
people passed cheap gas prices and low
sales popularity for hybrids and plug-in
cars the redesign has much more
conventional styling than the first
generation volt which was a very boxy
car it seems like the obvious result of
a wind tunnel exercise much more
car-like curvier all around that
actually conceals the fact that this car
is a little bit bigger than its
predecessor few inches longer close to
an inch wider the Volt is still an
electric car with an engine generator
that runs as a backup redesigned
hardware with this generation improves
all of its fundamentals
so now you get an epa-estimated 53 miles
of range much better than the last folks
38 miles rate and once that engine
generator has to kick in the epa
estimated 42 miles per gallon verses 37
before and when you do have to fill up
with gas it takes regular gas now the
first generation required premium none
of this seems to have sacrificed
drivability very much like its
predecessor that evolt rides and handles
pretty well with plenty of torque from
its electric motors for quick
acceleration around town editors were a
little bit split over breaks however
some found little improvement over the
prior generations will artificial
brick-like brake pedal other editors
that they're actually had been
significant improvement in this redesign
we all agreed at the end of the day
though that are particular test car has
a bad case of squeaky brakes a much more
cohesive interior to this car versus the
first generation vote which kinda had a
boxy futuristic seeming dashboard lots
of flowing shapes here very pleasing to
look at I gotta say controls for the
center stack now physical controls again
real buttons and knobs versions that
hard to use capacitive touch buttons
before now visibility not super great
hasn't really improved a great deal vs
the first generation of the bolt also
not an easy car to see out of a very
squat windshield your big eight pillars
that really fan out as you get down to
where the side mirrors are big pillars
if you look over your shoulder and the
rear window used to be a split design
now it's a single window in theory that
should be improved but still a very
small window and it doesn't have a wife
or even though the Volt is hatchback and
the window is rate such that you get a
lot of rain there during a storm
there is a fifth seat now it's a middle
seat in the back that used to
just be a two-position backseat it's
there i wouldn't use it its tiny the
bolt is still eligible for federal tax
incentive which knocks the starting
price effectively all the way down to
the mid-twenties if you qualify thanks
to a price that's nearly twelve hundred
dollars cheaper than the outgoing bolt
still gas is cheap right now and people
are not buying fuel efficient cars like
this
so how much should you pay attention to
the Volt well depends how much all this
new technology matters to you and how
much you want to create a hedge against
a future rise in those gas prices
2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Regular Car Reviews
RegularCars:
Nice Sonic!
♫Bolt, bolt, bolt, bo-bo-bo-bolt, bolt bo-bo-bo-bo-bolt♫
2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV
Crap seats.
Garbage dash.
Masturbatory gear selector.
Hard seats.
I POOP
Cheap plastic-
UHH UNSTOPPABLE
Crashy suspension
I POOP
MY ASS
IT CONTINUES
HNNNNNNNNNNGH
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE
TEN TEN TEN TEN TEN
I POOP I POOP I POOP
AND THEN I brown.
So this Bolt makes the equivalent of
200 horsepower and 266 pound-feet of torque
on a 150 kilowatt electric motor.
Now that's about the equivalent of a
Fiesta ST with a tune on it, and a
Chevrolet Bolt is about the size of a Ford Fiesta
It's got a 60 kilowatt-hour battery,
which is the same as a high-end Tesla,
which gives it an effective or claimed range of 238 miles
BULLSHIT
I'll be surprised if you crack 200 if you drive this thing normally.
The Bolt also offers
regeneteraviivivee
braking, which means city driving is more efficient for battery life than highway driving since you're braking more often.
On your standard 110-120 volt house current,
the battery takes two days to recharge,
although if you have 240 power and the appropriate adapter, it will charge in nine hours.
So Andy, paid the extra
$750 for the DC fast charging capability, which probably sounds expensive,
but considering Andy got this car as part of a buyback deal with his old Volkswagen Golf TDI...
turns out to be a pretty good deal.
Hey. It was either this or a Nissan Leaf,
and based on our experience I can't really blame Andy for making the choice he did.
Okay, the Chevy Bolt is a
$40,000 car. Ugh...
And this interior...
Shittiest interior I've ever been in!
I'm talking Chevrolet Cavalier
BAD
The seats feel like cafeteria chairs with all the bolstering of a church pew,
and the dash plastic is harder and grayer than an IBM keyboard.
And the gear shifter! All right look-
This is an automatic shifter that makes sense. Look.
Park.
Drive.
Overdrive.
Drive.
Low.
You could have any type of mnnnhhgh
Hngh.
Look. And this thing, they were able to make normal stuff.
This has a physical connection to the transmission.
If you have an electric car you don't have to have a physical tra-
Look at all the stuff coming out this.
you don't have to have a physical connection to the transmission,
so you could have it be anything you want.
So if it could be anything you want, why not have it be simple that people can understand?
But instead you had to make something more complicated than a
complicated original shifter.
Do you hear me?!
But no.. you had to make it complicated
Hold down the missile button and move it up and to the left to reverse.
But not right and down to drive, just back! But Park is a different button
and it doesn't work like the side missile button... You made it complicated GM
because complicated means fancy.
The handling pushes nothing but understeer, which is fine.
It's an economy car. And the acceleration is good. It's good. Not Tesla good. I mean zero to 60 in 6.5
seconds on a full charge and zero to 60 in 6.7 seconds on a 60 percent charge.
That's good!
And it could probably reach top speeds well over 100 miles an hour
if the engine wasn't electronically governed
so they can't go faster than 93.
Governor kicks in at 93 miles an hour. I mean I can sorta
see why you might not want to indulge the sort of guy who would really want to push an economy car up to
speeds past 100 miles an hour.
It probably has something to do with the electric motors.
I'll bet they could spin faster.
But giving that there's no gearing. You know it's one to one,
the car will only run as fast as these engines will turn
Er, I'm sorry, the motors will turn.
But 93 miles an hour seems like such an arbitrary number.
Why not 90 or,
or 95
But what's crazy is that even in its upper register,
the motor is still quieter than the kid blowing on a pinwheel.
Sort of like a Michael Bolton b-side,
but under 15 miles an hour, this little speaker turns on in the front bumper that goes like this
*heeeeeeeeeee*
It's -- it's it's a white noise machine in the front bumper.
It makes a noise similar to air conditioning fans. The idea is this is supposed to alert people
to not crash into you.
But when Roman was driving it,
he almost hit a squirrel so that didn't hear.
Although I did hear this car coming on one of the drive-by -- you know -- shots that we do.
So, it works
But car guys want the ability to turn stuff off. They're like PC users.
"No, I don't like that weird noise, just turn it off."
"I'll deal with the repercussions."
And it doesn't help that the tone that that white noise generator makes isn't particularly distinctive either.
It sounds a bit like an old dial-up modem from the "jerking off to music videos on RealPlayer" era.
"Get off the phone mom, I'm trying to get on Prodigy!"
But when the white noise machine is turned off, this car is quieter than a church after somebody objects to a wedding.
At 3,580 pounds this car is heavy, but quiet, like a BBW with low self-esteem.
It's heavy, but quiet, like a powerlifter on a blind date.
It's heavy, but quiet, like The Passion of Joan of Arc
It's heavy, but quiet, like the constant dependable love of your
LEFT HAND.
It still has a standard 12 volt lead acid battery to run accessories and get the car going before it "gets going",
but ugh, the interior!
Ugh!
At first glance it looks nice, but on closer inspection,
you can see it's all cheap, plastic components,
like they spent so much money on the engine, that they didn't have the budget for anything more than
Walmart seat backings.
I mean you pull up the carpet, and there's a lot of seam sealer too. I mean that's good,
but it's just kind of *phbbt* on everywhere.
Adding to the cheap feel of this car. And yes,
it's a low blow coming from a guy who drove a car called "Silicone Sally",
but my point stands.
Okay one thing that does really, really well, is a little paddle. On the left hand side of the steering wheel.
What that does is it kicks on your regenerative braking,
anytime you want it.
It has nothing to do with your brake pedal.
You can if you want,
come to a stop every single time without ever touching the brake.
If you time it right, and pull that little lever in.
And it doesn't matter what mode the car is in: regular drive, sport, sport low -- anyway
It will bring the car to a dead stop without using the brakes, and that's fun.
I could dig that. And I know I don't think I'd ever get a 200 mile range out of this car
Because it is fun to accelerate.
Again, not Tesla fast, but fast. Fun.
And you can make the front tires squeal.
*The second we can get around this -- hello, Toyota*
*That's how I used the regular brakes there*
*tire squeal*
*Whoa?*
*Sorry, I hit th-- i hit the accelerator mid corner, and it just -- and it just broke the tires loose*
And it does surprise you. Even as electric cars gain in widespread acceptance,
some people are just never going to warm to electrics.
I think one of the reasons is that for some people
accepting electric cars is passively approving the plan to phase out internal combustion engines.
More than a Tesla or a BMW i3 or any other electric car on the market,
the Bolt reads like a thesis statement on the decline of the internal combustion engine.
Because when your regular cars start getting electrified,
when you start getting electrics that are this accessible, this affordable, this thoughtlessly fun,
that's when you really start to wonder --
do all those clickbait thinkpieces about the death of the internal combustion engine have a point?
It's been predicted by financial analysts that the total cost of ownership for an electric car,
will be on par with the cost of a
gasoline-powered car, before 2020,
while electric vehicles could account for as much as 14 percent of worldwide car sales by 2025.
That's kind of insane when you consider that
globally, electric cars really only account for about 1% of all sales in 2017.
But it makes sense that affordability would be a motivating reason for people to hop on the electric car bandwagon.
Not only are the cars themselves getting cheaper --
AND THEIR INTERIORS --
But their components --
INTERIORS --
as well.
With batteries gradually falling in cost in addition to the price per kilowatt hour
plummeting from over $1,000 in 2010,
to just under $200 today.
That's without even getting to countries
who've pledged to go electric. Of course, a pledge doesn't mean anything.
It's like an initiative, which George Carlin said "an initiative is an idea that isn't going anywhere"
so I don't put any stock in Britain saying they're gonna guarantee all new cars to be zero emission by 2050.
I don't think that's happening. In fact
I don't... I think we'll be still making internal combustion engines 100 years from now.
Because it's not really the viability of the car that's in question,
it's the viability of the infrastructure.
And that's one serious problem with the Chevy Bolt.
It can't use Tesla's fast charging stations. It has to use...
There is no, there is no
infrastructure to support this car. You get a Chevy Bolt, you're taking a compass to your map, and
drawing a hundred mile radius around your house. That's all the farther you're gonna go
if you don't want to have to deal with range anxiety.
A Tesla can go coast-to-coast.
There is enough Tesla fast charging stations for those cars to work.
But we're in an early era now with electric cars in the same way we were with computers in 1991.
Nowadays everything that plugs into a computer is a USB, Universal Serial Bus.
But back in the early 90s you had all sorts of different ports
and you got a digital camera? There was no guarantee there would be the right port on the computer. Is it a PS/2? Is it a serial?
Does it plug into that game port that's on your sound card? Your Sound Blaster card?
We don't know. All different electric cars right now have different kind of a charge -- have different kind of charging ports.
We need a universal charging port for cars,
and that's one thing that Tesla's doing.
The long term goal of Tesla is to be more of a power supplier than it is an
automotive company. Plus in rural places like Pennsylvania --
There were no charging points down near Philadelphia and in Kutztown, Pennsylvania where we filmed this.
But back to the Bolt itself.
If you convince yourself you're driving a Chevy Sonic, then it's fine.
If you ignore the cost you spent, and if you get all the deals you can, if you can find a way to knock down
with the government incentives and maybe a work incentive and other tax breaks --
if you can get the cost of this from
$40,000 to under 30 in your mind, you won't be upset with the interior.
But if you pay sticker for this,
you're gonna hate this interior.
Just a pair of, Recaros or Sparcos would make this interior so much better.
I mean, screw the guys in the back, keep the crappy seats in the back. You kind of expect that.
But if you spent $2,000 on better seats, I think people will be willing to pay
$42,000 ,over $40,000, if the front seats were better.
Ughey. There's another problem with electric vehicles as well.
Garages. What are you gonna do, have this thing on the street?
What are you gonna do? Drag an extension cord out your window, have it go across the sidewalk and into your car?
Yeah, I guess?
But what about knuckleheads in your neighborhood?
Yeah, plugging your car overnight and have this thing dangling out your window. Then along come two lowbrow
knuckle-draggers with a very low class rank, and they see your electric car and your extension cable. And of course they're out late at night
because their parents are pieces of shit too - and they just yank the charging cable out of your car.
*knuckledragger voice*
Ha ha, faggot!
Now you go out to your car, and there's no charge in the morning. So that's the big cost of electric cars.
It's limited to homeowners. Homeowners with garages.
So yeah, I get the pushback against electric cars not only from a jobs perspective, but an enjoyability standpoint as well.
It's just not the same, but not the same doesn't automatically mean bad.
There is a place for electric cars. Perhaps in the future there will only be a place for electric cars.
But the growing popularity of electric vehicles means
manufacturers will have to get more creative with the design, with the engineering, with the functions these vehicles perform,
and the methods by which these cars perform them.
But for as exciting as that has the potential to be,
automotive enthusiasts are going to want more from these electrics.
Especially if they're old enough to remember how things used to be. I don't know what the future holds,
but hopefully the compromise is in there somewhere.
♫Chevy Bolt EV's an electric car.♫
♫Don't fret on the range, it'll get you far♫
♫And the cost is low,♫
♫comparing to a Tesla, but it costs more than a Nissan Leaf♫
2017 Chevrolet Volt: New Generation Battery Tech
Bachman Chevrolet:
In this video we will be comparing the differences
between the old Chevy Volt battery and the
new Chevy Volt battery.
The old Chevy Volt battery provided 38 miles
on the battery only as well as 382 miles in
total when the gas powered generator is engaged.
The 2017 Chevy Volt battery technology has
been improved and now provides 53 miles on
the battery only as well as 420 miles in total
range on a full charge and a full tank of
gas.
This gives the 2017 Volt a 39.47% increase
in miles solely from the battery. And a 9.95%
increase in total range between the two systems.
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Chevy Volt vs. BMW i3 Rex Drag Race
The 8-Bit Guy:
OK, so I'll be driving my 2017 Volt
and since my wife doesn't want to drag race,
my friend Jacob will be driving the i3 REx.
So let's take a close look at how
these two cars compare on paper.
The i3 has a 125 kilowatt electric motor
and the Volt has a 120 kilowatt motor,
the advantage here going to the i3.
You can see the i3 is also quite a bit lighter weight –
another advantage to the i3.
According to "Car and Driver", the 0 to 60 time is
7 seconds for the i3
and 7.5 seconds for the Volt,
so all the advantages go to the i3
but I can tell you right now,
these two cars are geared very differently
and after driving both cars, I can say
that the Volt has a lot more power
from a standstill, so let's see what happens.
So we pulled up to the staging lines.
The i3 was assigned number 624
and the Volt, number 623.
These cars are typical of
what was racing most of the evening:
Mustangs and Camaros
…and very noisy. Ours will be much
more quiet going down the track.
Jacob: Alright, so me and David are
about to race these cars.
It's my first ever drag race so I am a little nervous
but we'll see how it goes.
David: As expected, the Volt immediately pulls ahead.
Jacob: Wow!
However, the i3 starts to catch up in the end
but it's too late; the Volt won this round.
Here's the timeslip.
You might notice that the Volt won
by a fraction of a second
but the i3 was going faster when it crossed the line.
So what does that tell us?
Well, the Volt has an advantage on takeoff
and the advantage was enough
to allow it to win the race;
however, keep in mind
this was a ⅛ mile drag strip we were on.
If it had been the ¼ mile the i3 would win every time.
I would also like to mention that of
the four drivetrain configurations of the i3,
we have the REx 60;
however, the BEV 60 is actually
the fastest of the i3s
because it weighs quite a bit less,
so if the BEV version was racing, it
would've won without question.
So we race two more times.
Alright, Dave and I are about to go on round two here.
Jacob: So, the cars were pretty close last time.
See if we can beat 'm this time.
David: The one problem I had this time was
that there was too much water
up around the starting line
and my tires got wet.
So even though it's hard to see,
I'm actually spinning my tires on takeoff.
This caused me to lose half a second of my time,
canceling out the low-end advantage that I had.
Jacob: [laughing]
David: So, the i3 won this round.
Unfortunately,
somebody's car fell apart on the drag-strip
so we had to wait 30 minutes
while they mopped up oil.
Jacob: OK, after a very long delay
we're back in business.
David: Unfortunately, the tires were
spinning again this time
so this race was also hopelessly lost to the i3.
And just for the record, here's the timeslip.
The 2019 BMW i3 Crash Test VS 2019 Chevrolet Volt Crash Test And Chevy Win this Battle, Here is Why
Auto Universe:
Hey there folks, welcome to the auto universe,
now folks, if you have seen those videos or
footage of BMW I3 VS THE CHEVY BOLTS crashing
against the wall, both of those car looks
terrible after the crash, but that isn't going
to be enough to determines which one is better,
which is why we are going to give you the
analysis of those crash test, but before we
jump into the analysis, make sure you hit
that like and subscribe button, now let's
just get right into the analysis folks.
The all electric hatchback, this is how the
future would be folks.
The road will be filled with these small electric
hatchback, electric SUV and electric cars.
This is just where the world is going towards
right now.
If an electric car used to be so ugly, and
weird and has a small range.
Not the case anymore with the i3 and the Chevy
bolts, they are basically siblings, to prove
that let's just get right into the score analysis
as usual we also uses the same crash test
report from the IIHS organization,
starting from the top
The
conclusion is, apparently the BMW i3 loses
this round to the Chevy bolts, because it
got one acceptable score on the crash worthiness,
while the Chevy bolts earns a perfect score,
it also doesn't have any headlight section
score, so we can't analyse that, but on the
front crash prevention system, the Chevy bolts,
earns a superior score in the optional system’
there you have it folks, the BMW i3 vs the
Chevy bolts, if you have request on any car
that you want to see the comparison of, let
me know by leaving a comment down below, see
ya folks.
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