Volt Pic Post.........High VOLTage or Low? Post pictures and stories/experiences of your Volt or someone's you know or have driven.

[Nourdmrolnmt]

I remember seeing a convoy of Volts last April out here in VA. Started a thread about it too, it was amusing to read what the naysayers had to say at the time...
http://forums.fourtitude.com/showthr...-Volt-sighting

you know the best part?

That Duke Nukem Forever actually came out as well (yes I know those were both GM employees just saying things for fun)

[Terandyne]

I'm still always impressed when I see the robotics involved in car assembly

That body shows some of the structural integrity that got the Volt thru that bus crash relatively in good shape for the occupants.

Still amazes me that you could open the doors after that crash. The car simply isn't that long in the rear and not much space between back bumper and passengers

[TopDown_]

Meanwhile, somewhere in upstate New York

[TopDown_]

Usually not a fan of black.... I like this though (particularly in the snow)

[Powderkeg]

Drop top version of the ELR (slated for 2014 production)

The Ciel

[WhistlerYOW]

My local municipality seems to have added a Volt to the fleet... not sure exactly what it is being used for but I think its being evaluated by a bunch of departments to see if more are worth buying and where to assign them.

Sorry for poor pics... bad lighting + cell phone.

Car looks gorgeous in person.







New "Green" Ontario licence plates:

[Massive Attack]

Last february

Our Volt arrived with just under 200 miles on its odometer, sparkling clean on a bright, sunny Friday afternoon. It stayed clean for half a day. Then the mercury plunged to single digits overnight, which gave way to a mini-blizzard that brought about six inches of unexpected snow on Saturday afternoon. I unplugged at 7:45 that morning and ventured out with a full battery and the dash display reading 9 degrees. Within a few blocks the engine fired and a dash message read “ENGINE RUNNING DUE TO TEMPERATURE.” It only ran for a mile or two and then shut off, but repeated this after each of two stops that morning, burning an indicated 0.3 gallons.
I started off without pre-conditioning the car, but the optional heated seats are programmed to switch on automatically (for both front seats if it senses a passenger onboard), and this helped take the chill off quickly, but as I was trying to behave like the green enthusiast who’d shell out for a Volt, I kept the climate control system in its “ECO” mode at 68 degrees. My feet never warmed up, so I switched to “COMFORT,” and spent the rest of the weekend indexing the temperature upward. I never lost the cold feet, but a GM employee pal with a “fast-feedback” car says 80 degrees and Comfort does the trick.


Read more: http://blogs.motortrend.com/baptism-...#ixzz1dta0d3DB

[Some_Day]

Oh cool, thanks Kowabonga!

[kowabonga]

Probably posted before, but this gives you an idea about the different modes of the Volt

(and yes, in certain circumstances, the ICE will drive as well as the electric motor)

[Lightnin']

I know there always seems to be a lot of hullabaloo about the body shape of the Volt and whether or not people like it, but you can't argue against the aerodynamics of this car.

And it seems they have done a good job of highlighting some of the nicer edges and downplaying some of the blandness of it.

my 2 cents

[kasbah]

Car seems a natural for city streets where a gas car spends a lot of time in idle mode.

[Bodacious]

Another view in black

[Massive Attack]

Love this!

[WhistlerYOW]

The thing that amazes me about the Volt is how vault solid the car feels. It has amazing quality, considering some of the GM stuff that was coming out even a couple years ago.

It has a nice heavy thud when you close the door that makes a VW feel like a tin can (saying that because VWs generally are the best when it comes to that solid feeling in a non luxury car).

[BumpSteer]

Visibility to the front is great... out the back... not so hot.

[Jesarray]

heh.... Leno mugs for the cameras.

Sez he has a recharge station at NBC... nice.

10k miles with no fillup. Double nice.

Good publicity for GM...

and for what it's worth, I like that color in the car.

[Wheelstand]

At 40 miles per charge, quite a number of owners are seeing if they can go for the 10,000 mile no fillup badge.

[Buckaroo banzai]

Leave it to Leno to drop a wind turbine on top of his garage



http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars...garage/4216780

[jeff james]

more on the wind setup at Leno's

A few more neat things about these vertical turbines: They take up very little space, they're virtually silent, and multiple units can be placed within feet of one another. Delta II units can also be stacked vertically up to 50 kW. We wouldn't be surprised to see quite a few of these 9-ft., 500-lb. turbines lining the upstairs of the Green Garage very soon. For a full breakdown on wind energy technology in America

Read more: Jay Leno Builds a Wind Turbine on His Green Garage - Popular Mechanics

[kasbah]

GM makes a barrier between the rear seats to prevent things from flying from the trunk area on sudden stops



without



With



Keeps stuff like this in the back...............in the back

[uncleho]

Is that some magic, bagel pillow in the trunk?

[kasbah]

Is that some magic, bagel pillow in the trunk?

(laughing)... yep.. that is one strange concoction back there

[BumpSteer]

Leno.... got love it.

Always fun to watch... in or out of one of his cars.

His daily driver.......the Volt

[Bodacious]

Extensive sound deadening in the car adds to it's weight.

But the payoff is silence.

[Barefoot_]

It'll be interesting to see how the Volt holds up as the miles pile up.

So far, it's looking pretty good. Car seems solid

[Lightnin']

A year ago... remains to be seen if they will

General Electric to Place Big Order for Chevrolet Volt
By JIM MOTAVALLI

11/11/2010


7:57 p.m. | Updated

General Electric said Thursday that it would buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015, including 12,000 from General Motors.

Among the cars will be the Chevrolet Volt coming next year, although the Volt is technically a plug-in hybrid with a limited all-electric range.

G.E. said it would convert “at least half” of its 30,000 company cars to electric cars and would act as a partner with fleet customers.

[mitcompressor]

Visibility to the front is great... out the back... not so hot.

especially at night



Not so hot? Single center-mounted backup lamps like the one found on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Yeah, it looks plenty big from the outside, but more illumination is needed to the sides so you can see things in the side-view mirrors.
It's the dark season upon us. Visibility to the back doesn't help matters

[Blunderbuss]

It's almost like they mechanically bench press the battery pack up into the underside of the car.

[Rob]

New "Green" Ontario licence plates:

I love the Volt, the Karma and maybe even the Tesla S but that plate sucks. The smug factor is off the scale.

[AZGolf]

I love the Volt, the Karma and maybe even the Tesla S but that plate sucks. The smug factor is off the scale.

The Arizona version has puffy white clouds in it.

[kowabonga]

A plug-in car requires someplace to plug it in, of course, and the Volt's charge port is just in front of the driver's door. That's Andrew Farris, a 12-year GM employee, installing one.

installation of the charge port...vital to everything else here

Everything on a car is designed by someone, and Rayleen Hustyi designed the charge port on the Volt. She's a mechanical engineer, and it was her job to package the plug that keeps the car juiced. Here, she's checking the clearance of a port Farris installed.

Packaging a plug is tougher than you might think. The port, and the door that covers it, must be tough enough to stand up to all the plugging and unplugging Volt owners will do. And it had to be small enough to fit into the confines of the front quarter panel, which GM determined was the most convenient place to put it.

"A lot of thought goes into something like this," said Hustyi, who's been with GM nine years. "It's much more complex than it looks."

[Steveo989]

It's almost like they mechanically bench press the battery pack up into the underside of the car.

This must be a royal ****ing pain in the ass for a real mechanic to do if the battery ever requires replacement.

[uncleho]

I love the Volt, the Karma and maybe even the Tesla S but that plate sucks. The smug factor is off the scale.

No doubt. The car is clearly WHITE.

[uncleho]

This must be a royal ****ing pain in the ass for a real mechanic to do if the battery ever requires replacement.

Actually... it probably just depends on the type of hoist the garage has.

If you have the kind that just lifts the vehicle from the outboard and doesn't have cross bars that would otherwise interfere... all they would do is provide something to carry the battery pack on the ground and permit the structure holding the battery in to be unfastened... then the car lifted while the battery is held on ground level by the... dolly, etc.

Believe it or not... when vehicles are designed/developed... there are Service Operations people who sit in on the Product Design Team and provide input on Design for Service. Just as people like me sit in and provide input for DFA (Design for Assembly) or my colleagues (DFM).

[VDub2625]

I love when they do things like that, such as the fold out radiator on the Eurovan or the slide-out front end on B5 Passats and Audis.

I don't imagine removing the battery pack would be any harder than removing a longitudinal transmission.