{"id":174,"date":"2007-11-30T21:39:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T02:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/2007\/11\/30\/the-chevy-volt-is-electrifying\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T21:39:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T02:39:57","slug":"the-chevy-volt-is-electrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/the-chevy-volt-is-electrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chevy Volt is electrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a bit of reading on the web, I'm pretty much sold on the still-in-development GM Chevy Volt.  It looks like General Motors can't resist getting back in the battery-powered-car game, despite the outlash from the lousy way they handled the EV1 (watch <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/whokilledtheelectriccar\/\">Who Killed the Electric Car<\/a><\/em>).  Fortunately, GM's Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is telling the world that they are <em>very<\/em> committed to making the Volt a success.  So, picture this: a car that runs solely on battery power for up to 40 miles on a charge.  That's a great start, but the Volt revs this up a notch by adding an internal combustion engine (as GM calls it, a \"range extender\") to keep charging the battery and ultimately obtain a 640-ish mile range!  Current plans have the vehicle showing up sometime in 2010 with a production run 12 times the number of first-run Priuses.  This is certainly a car I'm going to be watching.  For more coverage of the Volt, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecogeek.org\/content\/view\/1147\/\">EcoGeek's coverage of the LA Auto Show<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gm-volt.com\/category\/gm-q-and-a\/\">series of interviews with GM execs on gm-volt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a bit of reading on the web, I'm pretty much sold on the still-in-development GM Chevy Volt.  It looks like General Motors can't resist getting back in the battery-powered-car game, despite the outlash from the lousy way they handled the EV1 (watch <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/whokilledtheelectriccar\/\">Who Killed the Electric Car<\/a><\/em>).  Fortunately, GM's Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is telling the world that they are <em>very<\/em> committed to making the Volt a success.  So, picture this: a car that runs solely on battery power for up to 40 miles on a charge.  That's a great start, but the Volt revs this up a notch by adding an internal combustion engine (as GM calls it, a \"range extender\") to keep charging the battery and ultimately obtain a 640-ish mile range!  Current plans have the vehicle showing up sometime in 2010 with a production run 12 times the number of first-run Priuses.  This is certainly a car I'm going to be watching.  For more coverage of the Volt, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecogeek.org\/content\/view\/1147\/\">EcoGeek's coverage of the LA Auto Show<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gm-volt.com\/category\/gm-q-and-a\/\">series of interviews with GM execs on gm-volt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p84xAX-2O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}