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Published on February 7th, 2011 | by Jeremy Bloom

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Feel the Charge: the Chevy Volt Super Bowl Ad

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Is the Chevy Volt gonna save the planet?

Probably not anything that dramatic, but it may save GM, and save a lot of tons of CO2 in the process.

Here’s the message Chevy sent out to America during yesterday’s Super Bowl, which fits in rather nicely with President Obama’s call for a Sputnik moment in American cleantech innovation:

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    Electric Cars has miles to go. The most important thing is to have more than 250 miles range. The current versions are around 200 miles in theory but in practice, it is not more than 150 miles.

    There is still miles to go..

    • Anonymous

      Well, the BYD e6 has a 200 mile range and the Tesla S which will be on the market next year will offer 240 and 300 mile range options.

      I’d say that the threshold for “good enough” range is around 170 miles. The Toshiba SCiB battery that Honda will be using in their Fit EV can be 95% recharged in 18 minutes. (And has a 4,000 100% DoD charge cycle rating.)

      Drive 170, recharge 20 minutes, drive 160, charge, drive 160. You’ve now done a ~500 mile driving day with only two short stops.

      Now, that’s a threshold at which an EV becomes easily usable for most people who take only a few long trips a year. Probably 80% – 90% of the market.

  • Nathan G

    We get 50% of our power from coal. If you get an electric car that is run on energy from coal you are actually emitting more CO2 than you would by using gasoline as fuel. I believe electric cars aren’t practical right now because they are too expensive and most of our energy comes from coal. We should be going all out to switch to natural gas fueled transportation. It is much cheaper and cleaner than coal, gasoline, or diesel. We can switch to natural gas right now and it would lower C02 emissions immediately.

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