Chevy Volt Concept - Has The Toyota Prius Met its Match?

No, just a Concept vs. Mass Production. Toyota is currently working on the new Hybrid System also.

— jon21 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 11:24:45 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

yeaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! more promises GM cant come thru on. good thing we love disappointment!

— Minion3d (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 11:26:00 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

Gogo, if you ever want anyone to take your supposed design expertise seriously, you need to use more mature language than ugly POS.

— 1970toyotamarc (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 11:39:25 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

I thought the first-gen Prius was hideous; the current model is just offensive.

— S4cabriofoxone (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 10:34:18 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

gogo, you must be a FAILING design student. NO one here has ANY respect for your "design" opinions.

— XYZZ (View Profile)

Posted on 1/12/2007 4:03:44 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

oooo lookie GM wants to play in the hybrid game now. Looks like they fininally gained some sense and realized their previous stance on hybrids was ill conceived. Well, i welcome more hybrid cars to the market regardless of who is making them.

— Onyx (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 11:35:26 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

I love how Toyota is slammed repeatedly on this site for its hybrid technology, but when someone (GM, BMW, VW) comes along with a concept that takes the technology to its obvious amazing potetntial, they are heralded as the next coming. Where's all the diesel talk now??

And of course we have the requisite 009 misleading headline, comparing a production vehicle (in its 4th year now) to a concept.

— 1970toyotamarc (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 11:43:31 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

According to my calculations in only gets 80 mpg in all electric mode.

— chewy (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 11:44:23 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

There is a few things to consider regardless of actual milage. plug-in energy... comes from where? coal burning power plants, and they are not clean obviously. 2nd... you still have to buy the electicity. 3rd... the batteries are expensive, this car wouldn't be cheap.

— Minion3d (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 1:24:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Obviously the cost of charging the car (for 6 1/2 hours) versus paying gas would be cheaper over a long term duration. Your right in saying the the burden would be transfered to another industry, but hell, at least we wouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil!

— paul3230 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/11/2007 12:00:23 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Agent009 you suck you should not be a Agent

— AgentBrabus (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 12:59:36 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

All of you so called experts, let me clear what GM is saying. GM is saying that most people daily commutes is less than 40 miles per day and if you charge the battery (maybe overnight) for 6 and a half hours, your good for another 40 miles. So if you use the car just for work, you would never have to buy gas.
Now if you take a long trip, the engine would start after 40 miles just to recharge the battery and with the 12 gallons of gas onboard, the car would now do 50 miles per gallon with a total distance of 650 miles.

— joeray (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 5:14:26 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

About time someone did a plug in hybred! Those lithium ion batteries will be old teck soon.Toshiba/sony (one of them?)is working on a quick charging batterie.Minion3d- good points! If everyone had a solar panel at home or a wind generator that would be clean energy!How about solar paint with regenerative brakes! I think it would be even better with more range in electric mode.I want this teck in the Jeep Rubicon unlimited!

— truckmen (View Profile)

Posted on 1/10/2007 5:19:35 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

Is this story supposed to be a joke? All Toyota hybrids already can run on battery alone. But not last for long though due the limitations the NiMH battery.

— SupraNeverBack (View Profile)

Posted on 1/11/2007 12:20:51 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

I don't believe for a minute GM will actually produce the volt. Its an attempt by GM to improve public perception, nothing more. But I do thank GM for pointing out this concept to the japanese, who will produce it.

— tomloy (View Profile)

Posted on 1/11/2007 6:17:28 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Toyota will develop a car that runs on cheap college binge drinking beer. A 1.5 liter 'Natural Light' combustion engine, With flex fuel capabilities (runs on pee). Now America will encourage drinking and driving, because its green.

— AntiFanboy (View Profile)

Posted on 1/11/2007 9:41:06 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

YOU EDEEOTS!!!!

GM already designed, executed, and patented so many electric tech specifications that they actually put a car out there!!!! The EV1. A California 0 Emission Vehicle. CARB ironically reversed course when this model proved a success and others from detroit/japan were close to distribution. BUT REMEMBER GM did the best with the EV and did it more than 10 years ago... GM sucks...? Perhaps, but for so many reasons we hardly know.

CARB, the greatest ball busters ever for emissions, ironically reverses policy to allow 'dirtier air.' Ironically encourages the theme that EV's are in fact counterproductive to reducing pollution (coal fired powerplant electricity). Ironically the lead board member recants his theories established through doctorate studies, recants two years of work to produce CARB's 0% mandate. And wow, ironically it is then determined by CARB that the electric powered 130 mile range of a single GM EV1 is not enough for a commute to work.

Oh and finally, a much higher capacity battery is tested and r&d'ed in desert heating trials (by GM) and found to have over 200 mile capacity per full charge. Then Chevron decides to get in the car business and buys the technology and subsequently the GM EV1 is yanked off the showroom floor... oooh, and all lessees cars are demanded and destroyed.

BIG OIL? Btw, the EV1 could outhaul many hi output V6's in the day...

— jaketuff (View Profile)

Posted on 1/11/2007 9:57:17 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Carfan3,
Diesel-electric trains are considered hybrids and the engines are used to create electricity for the 4 electric motors that do the pulling.

The Volt is still a hybrid, it just tries to put more emphasis on the electric part.

Again, unless the electricity used from the hydro grid is created by solar or other renewable sources/methods, they're just pulling a MB/VW by hiding the fact pollution gets created but not released by the car. We're no better off if coal generation plants are where the electricity is coming from.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 1/12/2007 12:04:18 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

You people do know that the Volt has only one motor driving the wheels, and that one moter is electric. It has a very small IC engine, who's only purpose is to generate electricity for the batteries. In the future, that small gas engine could be replaced by a hydrogen fuel cell. And the Volt has a range of about 650 miles, with that little electricity gererator feeding the batteries.

— shadoz (View Profile)

Posted on 1/15/2007 7:50:37 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Check out news and videos of the <a href="http://www.chevy-volt.net">Chevy Volt Concept Car</a>

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— seyoda (View Profile)

Posted on 5/17/2007 6:55:53 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1