I just switch to an extended-range mode, and I was driving on gasoline until I got there. When I was driving in small towns and Villages, the electric drive mode.
The reason that is important here is we have the city - like London - where you do not have to pay a congestion charge if you are running on pure battery. Save your battery life when needed.
Well, it's an interesting idea. That will certainly help clear up some confusion in the market about why the Chevy Volt is the way it is. Imagine the slogan: "Gas or electric? You decide "So., How about GM? These are the features that come to the United States?
Volt spokesman Rob Peterson, GM
There are plans to add this feature in the U.S., because the regulations require vehicles to operate in a mode of fuel emissions in the most efficient first / lowest.
But as shown Guilford, Fisker Karma can switch between all-EV and extended-range mode (more on the efficiency of karma old) ... and EPA can not think of a reason why GM can not include this mode. The problem seemed to be going to lower volt is weak in a green car with strong mixing efficiency. European fuel economy figures for the Volt is not yet available to confirm the theory, but Chevrolet Europe said that "over" 500 miles from a tank of 9.3 gallons of gasoline volt, worked for about 7 liters per 100 km or 33.4 MPG. That seems more or less in line with the EPA numbers, but even the official figures released by Europe, the differences in test methods to make an apple to apples comparison difficult.
Importantly, Volt is a car that appeals to emotional problems: the desire of gas driving range of electric cars for free, without limitations. Rather than relying on computers to constantly adjust the mixture as a gas-electric Prius is not, enables the driver to use as efficiently as possible, connect as often as possible. However, since this feature of the European market reminds us that the decoupling of pure-EV and gas-dependent mode is actually an illusion. This, along with the culture media grandstanding, explains why so many people panicked when they learned that the gasoline engine V to get more involved in the "EV" GM is left on.
Here's the summary: anyone going to change your mind about the range of volt-expanded mode MPGs some. However, given the strength of pure EV driving (or not) the consumer can not fail to assist in marketing efforts volt "I want to EV, a" crowd. Volt has never been about pure efficiency, it is a source of psychological satisfaction. The selection of an efficient gas or electric seem to play right into that position. And we now possible. About you, GM ...
