i want this car… in 2010

I saw the Chevy volt at the LA Auto show last year. What drew me to it was that it was electric AND it looked sporty. But then I started actually reading up on it and it just gets better and better.

“It is primarily an electrically driven vehicle and it has an electric traction motor and it has a large lithium battery pack down the center of the vehicle. So just by simply plugging your car in a standard 110 volt outlet, you can drive 40 miles on pure electricity. No gas at all.”

It does have a small gas engine, but unlike the hybrids out in the market now, the gas engine recharges the battery rather than being used to drive the car.

The idea behind this car is that the average person drives less than 40 miles a day. So the average person would be using this car on electricity rather than being reliant on gasoline (foreign oil!). Going to gas stations so frequently would be a thing of the past, just park your car in the garage and plug it in! Only going on long trips would you need to go to gas stations.

Did I mention it’s pretty??

What spurred all this electric car talk? I recently saw this documentary on TV, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and thought it was very well done! I learned a lot more about gas alternative vehicles and even the issues with hydrogen vehicles that I’d never even thought of.