Very few who had the privilege to drive at the end of the last decade in California which was the first electric car from General Motors, the legendary EV-1. It was a quiet, clean car, expected to mark the beginning of a new technological era in Detroit. Suddenly disappeared from the map. It is said that the pressure of the oil industry.
The auto industry decided, then go for the opposite approach, sell real fuel guzzlers like the Hummer SUV. And it turns out the wrong way, because their customers want smaller, more efficient cars, such as that made its Asian rival Toyota. Without seeing him coming, they were signing a letter of death.
With the lesson learned, and fresh out of bankruptcy, the new GM will try again 15 years later. The Detroit giant wants to prove he is up to the challenge, and most of the times. And if you meet what they say its engineers, the Chevy Volt will set a trend in the automotive industry, where the electric car has become the new panacea.
GM announced Tuesday that its new electric car will be able to travel 100 miles with only one liter of fuel, which could put a serious damper on hybrid cars like Toyota's popular Prius that with the same amount of fuel is capable of traveling nearly 25 miles. And the difference is already outclassed by conventional vehicles.
This performance is achieved by its main energy source is a battery. In the first 65 miles the car is completely electric. Traveled that distance, a small gasoline engine will take action to generate electricity to power the battery on long journeys consume very similar to the Prius. The Chevy begin
to be marketed in the U.S. at the end of 2010. The declaration of bankruptcy of GM last juniohizo fear for the future of this ambitious project, in which the company is working closely for years with the Environmental Protection Agency to determine accurately the performance of your system.
The legendary brand of cars, which last year completed its centenary, is not the only one in Detroit is taking steps in this regard. Ford Motor, which is surviving the crisis without state aid, is also developing an electric car that hopes to market over the next year, with the capacity to travel 160 kilometers a single charge.
There are also skeptics. There are those who do not believe that the Chevy Volt will be able to fulfill the promise of efficiency that says GM. Others look more to the price of fuel and predict that, as long at these levels "relatively low", the drivers will think twice before buying a car that can easily cost over $ 40,000.
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