The phrase “Getting ICE’d” does not mean getting killed, in the context of electric vehicles. That means “Internal Combustion Engine.” It refers to pretty much every vehicle that doesn’t have a battery pack for propulsion (a “traction battery”). We’ll start with what everyone is familiar with: ICE. If not, I’ll explain a few of the various terms in common use you might run across, and what they mean. If you’re familiar with electric vehicles, hybrids, and such, you can just skip this section. Or, more commonly, make it home without having to find somewhere to charge.īut, on the flip side, it uses a far smaller battery pack than pure battery electrics - and it makes far better use of that pack! BEV, PHEV, Hybrid, ICE… Oh My! Once the battery runs out, the gas motor kicks on, and you can drive it across the country on gas. When you set off, you run in a pure electric mode for the battery range - 20-60 miles, depending on which version you have and the outside temperature. This means that you plug the car in at night (or during the day) to charge the main battery. The Gen 2 (2016-2019) upgrades to about a 50 mile battery only range, a larger gas engine, and a different transmission design, but works out to the same thing - some battery range and then a gasoline engine for longer travel.
#Chevy volt range highway 75mph plus#
The Gen 1 Volt (2011-2015) has a 30-40 mile battery only range in the summer - plus a decent little gasoline engine and a useful gas tank (9 gallons) that can run it down the highway pretty much as long as you can find a gas station every few hundred miles.
It’s somewhere between a pure electric car and a hybrid - but, in reality, it’s far better than either! The Volt, on the other hand, is a “plug in hybrid,” a “series hybrid,” a “range extended electric vehicle,” or… probably half a dozen terms I’ve seen over the years. It’s confusion for the sake of confusion as far as I’m concerned. And some marketing people at Chevy should be strung up for that bit of cutesy confusion, because it doesn’t help anyone. If you’re not familiar with the Volt, you may be in the process of confusing it with the Bolt - which is also a Chevy product. Plus, they depreciate like mad (just like all other electric cars), so you can get one cheaper than you might think! The Chevy Volt I think it’s the “sweet spot” for electric transportation at this point in time, I think it’s rather significantly more environmentally friendly than a pure BEV for most use cases, and I think that, for most people, it’s a really, really good car and highly worth considering if you’re interested in cheap, (slightly) environmentally friendly car transportation. Since it’s my blog and I can post what I want, I’ve decided to talk about the Volt for a while. We picked up a used 2012 Volt with under 30k miles, and have been using it quite a bit, because, well, it’s our car. (I am currently using a loaner) The only car I can even think about buying, and that's about a year a way, is a 5-10K used car.Some while back, I tossed in a (little noticed) comment at the end of a post that we’d obtained a Chevy Volt. Especially when those same policies are making it impossible for me to save any money because I'm putting all of my cash in my gas tank because the DOE wants gas to be more expensive.Ī lot of us have suffered real financial hardship in the last few years, I just had to sell my only bass, a bass I believed would my last one. I have no problem with these cars being developed, but I have a huge problem with subsidies to the tune of 250,000 per car support a car only the wealthy can afford, (its worse with the Fister a 180,000 electric car made in Finland). My beef with cars like the Voit is that the policies that make it possible are making my vehicle choice impossible. I need all-wheel drive (Northern Climate), large carrying capacity (at least small SUV size), and long life (my current vehicle has 331,000 miles on it) which makes battery replacement a serious factor. The cost of gas actually reduced my driving and business last year. I drive close to 20,000 miles per year, and need a larger vehicle to haul samples. I drove 14,000 miles last year for business, plus normal driving. Click to expand.I think the electrics make great sense as commuter cars or second cars in a family.
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