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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by jameskilton on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:36PM (#20677039)
As a 2017 Volt owner, this makes me sad. If they so choose, there could be a huge market for plug-in hybrids, where you get all the benefit of EV for local transit but you still have the fuel backup for long range trips. The infrastructure for a fully EV fleet just isn't there yet to assuage range anxiety, though they are working hard on it. Plug-in Hybrids are the perfect stepping stone to help a society learn how to move into a more electric-only future.

At the same time it is good to see more companies jumping into full EV designs, so the future is, IMO, bright, but it may be harder to sell this in the short term.

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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by cowmix on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:42PM (#20677133)
All my fellow Volt owners who have gone Tesla don't have any range anxiety issues. People that went Bolt have SOME but mostly they are happy with their path too.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by hnModsRDanger on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:49PM (#20677229)
The difference is that, with GM, you expect your car to move you.

With Tesla, you are showing off that you bought a luxury vehicle.

It's surveying a different question.

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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by searine on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:43PM (#20677146)
I wouldn't be surprised if the Volt comes back in a few years as a full EV sedan.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by floatrock on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:56PM (#20677326)
Hopefully not as the "Volt". It's a shame the car didn't work out, but the Bolt/Volt naming thing was a source of endless confusion.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by amyjess on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:19PM (#20677570)
The most annoying thing about that naming scheme is that Chevy also makes the Spark, which is 100% gasoline-powered. What was their rationale in greenlighting that name?
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by dsfyu404ed on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:28PM (#20677697)
The spark was being sold under other names since long before the volt or the Bolt. When they started calling the Spark the Spark the Bolt was still several years off and they certainly didn't have a name for it at that point. The choice of "Spark" coincided with they giving all their small cars a bunch of active sounding names.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by hundchenkatze on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:19PM (#20679514)
The Bolt may have been long off but the Spark name was announced in 2009 and started selling at the same time as the Volt. The Spark was available for the 2011 model year in Europe and for the 2013 model year in the U.S (with a BEV option). The Chevy Volt on the other hand was available for the 2011 model year. So they definitely seemed to be going for electricity themed names.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by hundchenkatze on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:17PM (#20679495)
They offered a Spark BEV from 2013-2016 model years, maybe they intended to offer the battery only option sooner.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by kgwgk on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:27PM (#20677674)
Cars have had spark plugs for over one century anyway.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by rootusrootus on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:19PM (#20677567)
I would rather they upsized it slightly. The Volt is essentially a Cruze body with a different drivetrain, and it is pretty small. I looked at buying one but banging my head on the roof on my way to sit down made me rethink the plan. It doesn't even need to be that much bigger, maybe just taller. A Prius, by comparison, is pretty spacious.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by WorldMaker on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:59PM (#20678079)
The Gen 1 Volt wasn't just a Cruze body and was a hatchback closer to the "cross-over" territory that is currently all the rage for them. For cost cutting GM moved the Gen 2 Volt into a Cruze body, and then GM killed the Gen 2 Volt for not being a cross-over or hatchback.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by bduerst on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:08PM (#20678165)
Same. Test drove a Volt and it felt like a plastic toy car, meanwhile the Bolt actually has headroom.
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