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Originally Posted by zete
There's been a correction to the correction. Not sure if it's been posted elsewhere, but the generator does charge the battery, but it's not its primary role.
 As the Volt Turns.
According to Lauckner, the battery will receive power from the gas engine when load conditions are light (as in, not under acceleration). When the battery comes back up to a certain level of charge (that figure is still the subject of development at GM), the gas engine can cycle off and the Volt can run for an unspecified period on the stored battery power.
Thus, if through conservative driving one stores up enough juice, it'd be electric only again. Nifty. |
Easy! We don't want to ruin this lovely thread with useless facts from people who actually KNOW the answer. It only makes sense really because if the ICE didn't add a little extra juice to the battery pack in non-demanding driving it would never shut off once the battery is depleted.
Good work zete.