2017 CHEVY VOLT RANGE REVIEW GENERATOR
2017 CHEVY VOLT RANGE REVIEW PLUS

Well based on his reported gas consumption the EV doesn't seem to be doing much if anything. No problem but most (by far) was on the motor. I did some long trip (600km) without problem on one charge. The road was half highway and half small road with lot (lot!) of hill.

This spring at about 20 outside, without AC or heating, i got 100 km on the battery (so better than the 85 announced). One advantage of electric: You can use the car to move out of snow and heat it when it's covered in snow (no CO2 problem since the motor isn't running). My car got covered in slow 2-3 time this year. The car low so cleaning the snow was not a problem (we got 10-20 cm often this year) and the car is in a place where the snow pile up. I never had trouble starting the car and it's not in a garage (heated or otherwise). Even with the 'don't start the motor unless -5' is selected, the motor ran almost always when -10 or below. My Volt work fine but the car electricity millage was low. I got to 30 below often and week at 20 below all day. I live in Quebec city and i got a Volt 2016 last winter. The engine is just running at a more relaxed pace than if there was nothing in the battery.

2017 CHEVY VOLT RANGE REVIEW PLUS

GM engineered the Volt to maximize the benefits of using the engine for propulsion and BTUs and using the battery for propulsion.Д®ven on the coldest days, -30F when the engine runs nearly constantly to keep the cabin warm and comfortable (no ECO mode then!), you *still* are getting EV range because the propulsion is a mix of what the engine/generator is making plus the energy in the battery. Even if the engine is running fairly often to keep the cabin warm, it is still frequently using electricity from the battery for propulsion. We drive our Volt in much colder temps and get electric range.

2017 CHEVY VOLT RANGE REVIEW GENERATOR

I think you misread this and/or the author misunderstands how the Volt mixes the generator and battery during ERDTT (engine running due to temperature) mode. I hope the author can get some feedback from Chevy on that because less range in extreme cold is to be expected, no range is quite strange. Maybe the Volt can't keep batteries at optimal temp range (because battery thermal management system is inadequate) so it simply can't use the batteries at all or risk damaging them. The car simply refused to use electric drive at all. The weird thing about this review wasn't that they got less range they got ZERO range. Teslas for example use more energy keeping you the meatbag warm and also more energy keeping the batteries at optimal temperature. Is the poor cold weather performance a known problem with EV's or is this a relatively unique phenomenon? Note that on the Volt this conditioning can be totally on electricity (if plugged into 240 line) or a mix of juice and gas (if plugged into 120 and you have set it to allow use of engine to help (something you wouldn't do if the Volt is in an attached garage with door closed)) or just gas (if not plugged in at all). Similarly, it adjusts the batteries (heating or cooling) to the optimal range. Essentially it just adjusts the cabin to whatever the current settings on the HVAC system are. Remote start/pre-conditioning on the Volt works both to heat or cool the cabin. (Toyota RAV4 with remote start that I installed). Ten minutes and the car is completely cooled-off. I use a windshield reflector which helps by keeping the dash cooler but what really makes the diff is remote starting my car so the A/C cools down the car before I enter. Depending on how long the car sits in the sun, interior temps can hit 150 degrees.

Fla and I drive around quite a bit seeing clients. About the A/C? Can it be remote started while on battery as well? And how effective is the A/C in general compared to a similarly-sized ICE powered (no pun intended :-) vehicle?

2017 chevy volt range review