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No doubt, there are many various reasons but battery size and cost is the central reason. The battery cells that Tesla is using are about 50%...
Others think the Volt is too much, too early. I think it's fine because there are enough people for whom it is a better choice than their other...
I don't really understand what you mean by this. What daily blog? Link please.... The 2016 Volt is an obvious incremental sequel of the 2011...
In the last day or so a story has been floating around that Elon Musk said during an Edison Electric Institute event in New Orleans that the Tesla...
Yup. My guess is it was a premature leak of what was planned to be announced in mid-July. I suspect someone was editing the media information...
GM has quietly updated the 2016 Volt specs: Chevrolet News - United States - Volt Old: 41 mpg combined, 102 MPGe EV New: 43 mpg combined, 106...
The context here was Tesla Model S vs similar luxury/performance class ICE vehicles. Here's a quote from a Fortune magazine article from last...
And there was a war in Iraq in 2004-2008 spiraling out of control with rising gas prices versus the Volt in 2011-2015 still stuck or slowly...
I think you can make a case for that for Volt and LEAF but Tesla? My sense is that the Model S has done quite a bit better than most people...
Lithium-ion batteries themselves have an inherent self-discharge rate of a few percent per month (as little as 1%). That would amount to something...
That claim of 14 miles of loss after 2.6 days got attention because it was higher than most people see. The claim was sloppily made. This happened...
Why not the EV-2? They are probably afraid of the allusion to the EV-1 and the bad feelings from that but I think they should "own it" and...
Battery prices will keep dropping 6-8% a year without making any significant design changes... Gen 3 will probably adopt further weight reduction...
Good question. I don't know offhand. I can try to dig up more details on the Volt side. What do we know about the Toyota motors? Ideally it would...
On the other hand, they got rid of 3/4 of the still relatively expensive rare earth metals from the motors and they don't need a somewhat...
The average battery pack (whatever that means) cost was $400/kWh in 2014 and was dropping at a rate of 8% a year, according to this recently...
We don't know the actual cost of the 2016 Volt to GM so it's rather hard to have a discussion. We do know that they made production cost reduction...
The purpose of the battery subsidy was to chronologically bring forward plugins with substantial battery packs, battery plant investments, and R&D...
