Lutz on Volt Battery: "Flawless"

[slowinthefastlane]

Originally Posted by Slideways

So the battery is flawless, I would assume they know how to make a gasoline engine, we've seen the design, the platform is ready for Europe, and we're still 26 months away? Sometimes I hate getting a sneak peak. Darn you interwebs!

Once you've figured out what you're going to build, you still need to figure out how you're going to build it. This includes re-tooling the plants and re-training the factory workers. It also includes getting the bids out to the 100's of suppliers and getting them up and running building production-quality parts. For completely new parts, they have to re-tool and re-train as well. Some of this is done in parallel, of course - but some of it can't be until certain parts of the design is validated and finalized.

GM probably isn't any slower or faster at doing this than their competitors. GM just looks like they move much slower because they announce their products so far in advance.

[KAD]

I'm ready to see this car.

[Buick Riviera]

Will the Volt go further on a single charge?

[GG_TECH]

"Battery Works flawlessly"

I'm glad to hear testing so far has been going great. It essentially validates the battery pack design. As Lutz is well aware of, it's not all complete is of yet. GM needs to make sure that when the battery manufacture begins to produce these batteries in large volume that they are made consistently and with good quality in mind. He knows what to do. He has the tools and personnel at his disposal to accomplish this.

New technologies sometimes bring unforeseen problems, if he and GM can work and manage proactively and they should turn things around for GM. I want one of those vehicles.

[JeffInDFW]

I live in Texas, and my latest electricity bill is $699.98! After getting an almost $700 freaking electric bill, I don't think I want to also be plugging my car in! Good LORD.

[hunchman]

Originally Posted by JeffInDFW

I live in Texas, and my latest electricity bill is $699.98! After getting an almost $700 freaking electric bill, I don't think I want to also be plugging my car in! Good LORD.

Use the money from your grow operation to pay the cost of charging the battery, 700 dollar hydro bill my gawd

[CaptainDan]

Originally Posted by Chaz_23

I don't know. Just how long will a Volt last before it falls apart/won't run anymore? 30k miles? 50k at best?

Or aliens might abduct you! Or monkeys could fly out of your butt!

[CaptainDan]

Originally Posted by JeffInDFW

I live in Texas, and my latest electricity bill is $699.98! After getting an almost $700 freaking electric bill, I don't think I want to also be plugging my car in! Good LORD.

It will still be cheaper than buying the gasoline.

Unplug a couple of those marijuana grow lights, that might help some.

[fp115]

Originally Posted by JeffInDFW

I live in Texas, and my latest electricity bill is $699.98! After getting an almost $700 freaking electric bill, I don't think I want to also be plugging my car in! Good LORD.

It would cost a few bucks per month. It came up to a few cents per mile in the most expensive states in the US.

[prototype66]

Im sold!
Im saving up for it starting today!

[johnstarnes]

Originally Posted by JeffInDFW

I live in Texas, and my latest electricity bill is $699.98! After getting an almost $700 freaking electric bill, I don't think I want to also be plugging my car in! Good LORD.

Wow I live in Tampa and my last light bill was $82....how did you get such a gigantic bill?!

[ogg vorbis]

Originally Posted by CaptainDan

It will still be cheaper than buying the gasoline.

Unplug a couple of those marijuana grow lights, that might help some.

that's absurd! you don't kill positive cashflow. the revenue from each light is a few thousand dollars...so he can pay for more electricity. simple math guys...

electric cars are virtually maintenance free. gm will likely have yearly oil changes...that's it. they'll have to increase custom parts to generate income lost from zero maintenance.

many of the volt engineers also worked on the ev1...building it is not a problem.

i noticed how drastic the tear drop shape is. if it weren't for those fender bulges, and some tire covers, it'd be way under 0.25 Cd.

[roteague]

Originally Posted by JeffInDFW

I live in Texas, and my latest electricity bill is $699.98! After getting an almost $700 freaking electric bill, I don't think I want to also be plugging my car in! Good LORD.

We don't even have those kind of electric bills in Hawaii ....

[CaptainDan]

Originally Posted by johnstarnes

Wow I live in Tampa and my last light bill was $82....how did you get such a gigantic bill?!

He's been in his basement lab-O-ratory trying to bring his creation back to life. That dead flesh isn't going to re-animate itself!

[CaptainDan]

Originally Posted by JeffInDFW

I live in Texas, and my latest electricity bill is $699.98! After getting an almost $700 freaking electric bill, I don't think I want to also be plugging my car in! Good LORD.

Maybe you should just shut down that aluminum smelting operation you've got going on in your shed.