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It's a wonderful car and perfect where a battery only vehicle just doesn't cut it. Little things abound that let you know that a lot of thought went into the overall design of the car.. A little surprise: the removable floor mat retention system is nicely made to hold them firmly in place until you want to remove them for cleaning. I've seen more expensive cars that just took the cheaper velcro in place route...
This is better then gms training illustrations those suck. These independent illustrations help me to understand how everything actually works. Instead of the chessy 1d training materials on global connect
Did I hear this right? Once the battery is run empty, you need to plug it in to charge? It has a generator. Why can't the generator charge the battery. Not even a trickle charge?
If you actually drove one you’d understand. They mean while driving when full electric mode goes empty. It’s confusing to explain. But the car has two drive modes. Full electric, and hybrid mode. They don’t call it that but that’s why you are confused.
I don't understand the last mode. How is the engine driving both the generator motor clutched together as well as the output gear, and being independent of gear speed?
Great idea, but how the modes are label in the car is different then hkw this video describes. Normal would be battery only, sport uses both and changes the throttle response curve, mountain charges the battery up to max around 15miles, and hold mode keeps the battery level where you switch over. There is no extended drive mode were it sips from the battery amd engine together for the duration of either. The hold mode in my experience does try to replicate this mode from the video far closer, but it always recharges the pack back up no matter what. There is no highway more efficient mode where it uses both and then doesn't recharge and waste gas to recover the battery level. This would need to be a 5th mode we do note have access too.
My favorite car ever. Bought in 2016 as a lease return with 36k, my 2013 has been rock solid. I’m sad knowing that even with as flawless as it is, thanks to GM abandoning it, when my battery does start to fail (I’m at 105k now), the options will be limited at best for repair. It’s really quite depressing. The car is flawless, and everyone I know that owns one agrees. It continues to impress me every day. Here’s to hoping she lasts 150k (or more)! I’ve owned a LOT of cars, and nothing really comes close for the money. They overengineered almost everything except the power window regulators lol… GM really had a home run on its hands and blew it.
yup, best car ever! I got a prius for my kid and have now come to appreciate my volt even more for how refined and smooth it is. GM sure knows how to design great cars and kill them just as they are about to take off. Great engineers and terrible marketing and business people.
@ClosetWorkshop Goes to show how Marketing is a form of Psychology. The Prius gets all the glory due to its name, while VOLT is a FAR superior car in every way. But, it carries a Chevy logo, so automatically it gets labeled as a piece of shit. Good for smart people though.
Just bought a late gen 1 volt. What a great engineering solution, and yet GM had to kill it off due to low sales. Major failure of the motoring publics decision making ability IMHO. RIP.
Picked up a 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV also, 17,777 miles on it. I am getting only 4.1 miles per KW though. Was hoping to get easy 6 miles/Kw, but I think I know why....been running the air conditioner full blast all the time because the Florida weather has been mid 90s and humidity has always been 80 percent or higher.
The first generation Volt that is correct. The engine did nothing but charge the batteries. The kicker is that engine required 91 octane premium gas. Why I know not. It got in the low 30s mpg on the gas engine. 3 to 3.5 miles per kilowatt hour and people are bragging 4 miles per kilowatt hour on electric which would be very good even today.
4:50 They show the two being combined with a clutch more like a Prius hybrid. Far as I know this didn't happen in the first generation. Second Generation yes. maybe I am wrong. Either I got history wrong or it is rewritten ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-80E1fOp95rA.html
@@2148aa I own a volt and 4 miles per kw is possible if you go about 55 mph. It helps to be in traffic to limit speed. The car does great if you keep it at slower speeds. If you go 80 mph you get about 30 to 33 mpg vs 38 mpg on my 2nd gen prius under the same conditions. One thing to note about my prius vs my volt is there is about a 850lbs difference between the two cars. The prius is a tin can compaired to the solid drive feeling of the volt.
@@majorchungusTesla to date is hard pressed to hit the 4 mile per kilowatt. Granted the people who buy them wants to look cool and go fast. Someday people may know what electricity cost to run an EV. In Iowa our electric bills just topped $0.19 per kilowatt hour. That is total electric bill divided kilowatts used. Nothing is free
I have a better idea than this. Use electric motors at the rear wheels and 2 Batteries and a tiny gasoline engine to spin a generator that charges up 1 battery at a time, while the car runs on the other battery. The tiny gasoline engine will start automatically when one battery is low and then switch over to the freshly charged battery. And the gasoline tank would hold 3 gallons. This idea was already thought up 20 or 30 years ago. That was the original Chevy Volt prototype. This car would get such tremendous fuel mileage and you would never need to plug it in. But I guess the Big oil companies made sure that this never happened.
I just bought a used 2014 Volt and it's honestly the coolest car I've ever owned. I'm in love with it and I don't even have a home charging option! It does all of the work this video describes behind the scenes and you absolutely cannot tell! It's so smooth.
Seems like you could do away with breaks and adjust this to recover energy also speed moderator for inclines does it know wind forces how would tail wind effect both engines at the same time
They don't describe it in the video, but it has regenerative braking also. When you drive it down a hill, you see on the display the energy going back into the battery. It has traditional brakes also for emergencies and when the battery is already fully charged and can't take the energy from slowing down. Brake pads last the life of the car. Our Volt has 80,000 miles and the pads are still like new.
Ooo, I'm so glad I have my Volt! I got it when I was in grad school for $10k and have saved thousands not buying gas. Plus it's relatively low maintenance. Before the great plague I had been commuting 30 miles/day to work over hilly terrain, the total electricity consumption was costing me less than $20/mo. I fully intend to drive this car as long as feasible.
My 2018 Volt has 65K miles with no problems and almost no battery range loss. It is also very quiet and smooth versus the Prius Prime which is noisy, rough and gets only about 20 miles on EV...GM obviously has the skill to build excellent EV cars...if they want to...
@suad01 GM has excellent engineers. Their biggest problem is the board of directors. A bunch of suit and ties more concerned about Wall st. CASINO games than their products and customers.
Our 2017 Volt with 125k miles on it is still going strong. Still holding about 90% of charge without any issues. Our son now drives it and loves it. Chevy should’ve never discontinued this architecture. I prefer this configuration over all-electric cars. Plug-in hybrid with electric motor drivetrains makes a ton of sense to me. I really hope Chevy or other automakers bring that back!
I really love this system. One thing that I want to know, if it is possible to reprogram volt and lower 70 mph value to say 40mph? It's good when you drive with main 150hp and 370nm engine, but plus 77hp and 200nm generator at low speeds, would be great. so in total you will have almost 570nm and 227hp! No one interested in this?
Gears have downsides and upsides... gears transfer torque through only a few mating teeth at a time, so they have to be more robust, they're more prone to making winding noises, and it's really hard to build slack into designs (if you need/want it, naturally)... you also tend to need more room to package them, but there are ways around that. Chains use half or so of their teeth to transfer torque at once so the teeth can be rather weak and still handle a good deal of power and save weight while being easier to package into a smaller space. You can also adjust tension to have dynamically controllable slack. The major downside is their tendency to stretch, but you can overcome that with adaptive tension in a system where relative position between the drive and driven gears isn't important (such as in the Volt).
Is that supposed to be a flywheel on the gas motor? Does that mean the gas motor uses a normal starter?. I have to recheck the details of how my Escape Hybrid operates but I know it's spun on by the electric drive system.
@@themodfather9382the inverter is also the converter for regenerative braking and is only the middle "brick" in the unit. The top brick is the onboard charger. The planetary does have to contend with 400 ft*lbs of torque, that's a decent amount!
This is what I called OverEngineered nonsense. So needlessly complex. Now compare to a Tesla and it's no engine simple design. 0 pollution and much more efficient and with much better battery. Tesla engineers are so much smarter and intelligent compared to GM ones. Elon Musk is a genius compared to the GM folks.
Man this thing is sweet. Its gonna be my second car when I graduate from college🤘🏼 (i got rid of my old car) im going to install lowering springs and upgraded brakes to get the best out of this car
Lowering springs? The car only sits about 3 inches off the ground stock. How undriveable do you really want to make it? Upgraded brakes? To what? My 2014 Volt has 153,000 miles on it and the original brake pads have only used 1mm of pad from new. This car uses regenerative braking for all but the hardest of braking, and if you're using the mechanical brakes a lot, you are driving like an idiot or you are forced to drive in the insane asylum called downtown Seattle ot NYC. The rest of us that are able to keep a coffee cup that doesn't have a lid from spilling while we are driving will never replace our Volt's brake pads...
all car manufacturers have done to make hybrids is just copying the fundamentals of a freight train.....a internal combustion engine powering a generator , giving current to a traction motor.....lol.....old technology.....so the engine can operate at a constant rpm reducing emissions, while having a electric motor varying its output, with maximum torque available from 0 rpm
Except that's not at all the limitation of this tech. The ICE can help propel the vehicle along with the traction motor, increasing efficiency above the strategy you mentioned, can regulate traction motor RPM for maximum efficiency (up to 100 MPH road speed), in fully electric or series/parallel hybrid mode in a compact and mechanically simple package. There's a reason a patent was granted. If it was so easy it would've been done.
How do I get the motor, The generator, and the engine to work together when going speeds above 70 in order to get that 15% more Efficiency In my 2014 volt? Hold mode?
Hold mode makes no difference in this instance. There is Charge Depleting mode and Charge sustaining mode. Hold mode vs discharged battery is effectively the same. The vehicle will attempt to maintain a minimum SoC either way.
@@nismology I just got my hands on a 2014 with under 70k on it and the guy I got it from told me to drive it on hold and save the battery for emergencies. Made sense at the time but only pushing 37mpg that way. Is driving it on normal the most efficient way for it to run?
@@ShawnErroneous Hold mode is used for if you are driving into an electric only area of a city. Drive it in Normal mode. Mountain mode is for what it says, driving in the mountains. The system saves 50% of the battery for a long uphill climb. Sport mode changes the throttle map to make it feel a little more aggresive. Hold mode maintains the battery charge at the current state in case you want to save the EV capability for when you will need it. Say you're driving from the suburbs into the city. Start out the drive with a full battery charge, put it in Hold mode for the freeway drive where you won't really hear the ICE, then put it back in Normal while you're in the city so you have nice, quiet all electric driving. But otherwise, leave it in Normal mode. I've also got a 2014 Volt, but mine just blew past 150,000 miles and still going strong. I go about 1000 - 1500 miles per 8 gallon tank of gas.
