GM confirms it will build Chevy Bolt electric car with 200-mile range
Source: Green Car Reports
The rumored long-range Chevy Bolt was confirmed at the Chicago Auto Show
Thursday. GM did not confirm when production would start or when the new Chevy
Bolt would be released, however.
By John Voelcker, GreenCarReports FEBRUARY 12, 2015
Six days ago, Reuters broke the story that GM would indeed build and sell the Chevrolet Bolt electric car, but that production would start late next year--not in 2017 as previously expected.
This morning, the company's North America President, Alan Batey, officially confirmed at the Chicago Auto Show that the vehicle will be built at GM's Orion Assembly plant, just 30 miles north of Detroit.
Batey did not, however, confirm a date.
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It debuted at the January car show, GM gets it.
GM gets it because of Obama, which is the best part.
The RW haters call the Chevy Volt the ObamaCar!
:rofl"
Anyway, I bought a slightly used one in Veridian Joule, cute name for a color, eh?
ETA picture:
Looking forward to it, when my current car wears out.
Having worn that one out, I don't think I'd do a Prius again.
I wanted anything that could utilize Level 2 charging, and looked at the Escape and Fusion, the Fusion Energi is nice but the rear seats don't go down.
The Volt is actually a hatchback, the seats go dead flat and you can sleep two back there or carry 10' lumber!
http://www.chevrolet.com/content/chevrolet/northamerica/usa/nscwebsite/en/index/cars/2015-volt/photos-and-videos/interior/jcr:content/mm_gal_c2/thumbnailArea/mm_gal_item_c2_2.img_resize.img_stage._3.jpg
Anyway, most NYers take the subway to work and use cars for errands and getting away.
Trivia:
Did you know that at a time when EVs outsold gas carriages that NYC had a fleet of electric taxis?
In 1899, 90% of NYC taxis were electric: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/04/in-1899-ninety-percent-of-new-york-citys-taxi-cabs-were-electric-vehicles/
Electrobat electric car
The first taxicab company in New York City was the Samuel's Electric Carriage and Wagon Company, which began running 12 electric hansom cabs in July 1897.[13] The company ran until 1898 with up to 62 cabs operating until it was reformed by its financiers to form the Electric Vehicle Company.[14] The company then built the Electrobat electric car, and had up to 100 taxicabs running in total by 1899. 1899 also saw a number of notable firsts for the Electric Vehicle Company. On May 20, 1899, Jacob German, driving an electric taxicab received the first speeding ticket in the United States.[15][16] Later that year, on September 13, Henry Bliss became the first victim of an automotive accident in the United States when he was hit by an electric taxicab as he was helping a friend from a streetcar.[17]
By the early 1900s the Electric Vehicle company was running up to 1,000 electric taxicabs on the streets of New York City until, in January 1907, a fire destroyed 300 of these vehicles which, in conjunction with the Panic of 1907 caused the company to collapse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_New_York_City#Late_1890s
Can't wait until the tech matures a bit more. 
I have test driven a couple cars for several day runs, including the Mitsubishi i Miev and Ford Focus electric.
The i Miev, especially, really hurt if the AC was running, shaving the range down to 50 miles from 60 right there on the display.
The Ford was less sensitive to that.
Lights and wipers and cruise control require little power relative to moving two tons down the road, but the do have an impact. Resistant heaters use more power but even if everything is running, and all battery power is exhausted, you'll still be moving down the road on electricity generated on board.
I love that feature, it's not like the Prius or other parallel hybrids.
The Prius and other PHEVs use a complex drivetrain that combines electric motor shaft power with gas engine shaft power, which is fine but quite different from the concept of a series hybrid like the Volt.
The concept of a series hybrid is that electric motors are the exclusive drive motors, the gas engine is only there to recharge the batteries.
In a series hybrid, the gas engine could throw a rod and you'd still be able to get down the road and recharge and go and go indefinitely.
As an engineer, I think it's a cleaner and smarter approach.
And I hate when my peas get mixed up with my smashed potatoes and gravy!
