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DETROIT AUTO SHOW: GM Volt Concept in Action

Agent009 submitted on 1/8/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 4:21:11 PM

7 user comments | Category: Misc News | Source: www.autospies.com

A Nice video of the new GM Volt concept in action.

If GM is heading in this direction then we can expect more ideas like this to come online.

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themassmauler

That is a really good looking car. what kind of top speeds and accelerations should we expect from an electric car like this?

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Posted on 1/8/2007 6:37:47 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

paul3230

Great looking car. THANK YOU GM for being the first serious large automanufacter to committing to plug-in technology.

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Posted on 1/8/2007 9:07:42 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

huu76

Just two things.

I only watched about the first minute. Was it in slo-mo? The engine sounded like it was reving to go fast.

Secondly, anyone ever try to unplug your car's engine warmer in the winter? It's a bit of a pain.

Aside from those two obversations, if they can do it, all the power to them. I don't think it'll make hybrids obsolete though, as Wagoner arrogantly (sort of jumped the gun maybe?) already stated.

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Posted on 1/8/2007 9:46:56 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

corpsbum

The Volt is a hybrid, just a serial hybrid instead of a parallel hybrid like the Prius, Civic, Altima, etc.

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Posted on 1/15/2007 8:33:07 PM | | Votes: 1   

EVangel

Top speed 120 + mph, 0-60 mph in under 9 seconds. The electric motor isn't noisy (the EV1 made a very quiet whir at low speed and hummed gently at high speeds.)
Make it so, #1! I'll buy a Volt.

Hugh E Webber Electric Auto Association

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Posted on 1/14/2007 2:19:32 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

shadoz

The sound you here on that video is not the car. The volt runs in electric mode only. It does nor have a gas motor that runs the car. The small gas moter in the car generates electricity. That was just a bad video.

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Posted on 1/15/2007 7:36:58 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

bucko

The sound I hear is a motor. It gets loud when the car is near and quiter when the car is further away. It's not background noise. It's louder than most cars with engines. The EV1 was quite. This sounds like an unbalanced Chinese washing machine.

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Posted on 1/18/2007 2:24:07 PM | | Votes: 1   

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