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I haven't gotten around to carefully testing this myself but as a rough guide with a warm engine on flat roads with "fan only" climate controls...
Yes. The Volt will switch back to EV mode from hybrid mode if you drive down a long and steep enough road to regenerate at least 1-2 kWh of...
I think they are talking about a new IGBT chip design which would also seem to be useful for improving efficiency on any plugin car, not just...
I generally try to keep the Volt out of Prius PHEV threads that I contribute to unless someone else mentions the Volt first and I feel that...
This is quite true, although it's worth noting that the official GM recommendation for the Volt and Ampera in Europe is to use "regular" 95 RON...
The presently selling Volt (starting in 2013) is EPA rated with a range of 38 miles, not 35. The EPA rated range of the Prius Plugin is 11 miles...
For context, I said: Mountain mode on the Volt raises the set point for the SOC that the car tries to normally maintain from about 20% to about...
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Here's what I said: In other words, the Volt/Ampera/ELR regardless of where it is sold limits the gas engine to 4800 rpm. GM sells conventional...
In my experience, the Volt engine runs at its highest rpm under load no more often than my 2nd gen Prius and probably substantially less. The...
I agree that a couple of those graphs are confusing in isolation. I'll go back over the weekend and look at the full paper in order to place them...
I won't dispute that but I've never seen anyone report that. Do you have a link handy? I'm not sure about the details on that but I have heard...
Right. The Volt's battery thermal management system has its own direct connection to the air conditioning system so it can cool the battery...
If you are redlining the ICE at 4800 rpm at 60 mph you are almost certainly in series mode so MGb is spinning at whatever speed is implied by the...
Lithium-ion batteries are generally happiest at the same temperatures as humans. They have the best balance between battery life and usable...
The regular Prius has a combined 89 g/km CO2 rating in Europe. No conventional diesel model from Volkwagen sold in Europe is lower (you can find...
Those maps and graphs show when the Volt's transmission chooses to switch between single motor and combined motor operation etc. That's different...
It's probably due to incomplete data. OnStar has been having some problems with their Volt efficiency statistics in recent months. That image is...
Your mixing and matching two separate data snapshots. Look more closely and you will see that the 94% electric miles was a lifetime statistic but...
MGa will never spin too fast since it spins at the same rpm as the ICE which is limited to 4800 rpm.
