{"id":5431,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:27:55","slug":"chevrolet-volt-will-not-have-direct-engine-drive-electric-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5431","title":{"rendered":"Chevrolet Volt will not have direct engine drive, electric only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Opel Ampera \u2013 Click above for high-res image gallery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a> recently started letting European journalists behind the wheel of prototype versions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/opel\/\">Opel<\/a>\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/vauxhall\/\">Vauxhall<\/a> Ampera which is the re-nosed version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/volt\">Chevrolet Volt<\/a>. While those of us on this side of the pond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/30\/2011-chevrolet-volt-quick-spin\/\">that have driven the Volt<\/a> have been restricted to driving around cone courses in parking lots, Europeans are driving on public roads and at high speeds.<\/p>\n<p>The cars being driven Europe have the same &#8220;65 percent&#8221; calibration level that we drove. That calibration and software level was locked in last Fall and still required quite a bit of work. As Andrew English from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/motoring\/car-manufacturers\/vauxhall\/7849811\/Vauxhall-Ampera-prototype-review.html\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a> found, this software exhibited some drop-off in acceleration performance above 50 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>English somehow came to believe that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a> was working on an update for the launch of the Volt that would see the installation of a mechanical drive between the engine and wheels to bypass the mechanical-electrical energy conversion inefficiencies. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">GM&#x27;s<\/a> two-mode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid<\/a> system does exactly this with a pair of clutches, there are no plans to do this for the Volt. GM spokesman Rob Peterson told <a href=\"http:\/\/gm-volt.com\/2010\/06\/27\/opel-ampera-journalist-test-drive-questions-high-speed-performance\/\">GM-Volt<\/a>.com that the Volt&#x27;s drive architecture remains the same as always with the engine only driving a generator.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 Volt is now at a 99 percent calibration level and going through its final certification and validation prior to the production launch in November.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.aolcdn.com\/dims-global\/dims3\/GLOB\/legacy_thumbnail\/1049x590\/quality\/80\/http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/green.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/06\/265053.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/06\/28\/chevrolet-volt-will-not-have-direct-engine-drive-electric-only\/<\/p>\n<p>2010-06-28T11:01:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opel Ampera \u2013 Click above for high-res image gallery<br \/>\nGeneral Motors recently started letting European journalists behind the wheel of prototype versions of the Opel\/ Vauxhall Ampera which is the re-nosed version of the Chevrolet Volt. While those of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9958,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}