General Motors has a new green car. With its hybrid power system, lithium ion battery, the Chevrolet Volt concept sedan could be charged by simply plugging it into a 110 volt outlet during six hours a day. Not the hottest green car in the world, but GM banks on this assumption: “If you lived within 50 km from work (100 km round trip) and charged your vehicle every night when you came home or during the day at work, you would get fuel consumption of 1.6 liters per 100 km,” GM Vice Chairman Robert A. Lutz said in a press release. And “more than half of all Americans live within around 30 km of where they work (60 km round trip). In that case, you might never burn a drop of gas during the life of the car.”
When the battery is depleted, a 1.0-liter engine running on biodiesel E85 (85% ethanol and 15% gasoline) could take the relay to create electricity and replenish the battery. And a fuel tank would produce enough power to give up to 1030 extra kilometers. Enough to find a power outlet.
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