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Originally Posted by Raeshlavik
One of my employees has a new Chevy "Volt" which is option 2 above. I gather it only has like 60 miles of range on straight battery, but it's really designed like a locomotive in that the VVL 4-banger in it runs a genset that in-turn runs the wheels. The battery is just to store any excess power from braking or the genset providing more than required motive power.
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The only thing more offensive then the Gen1 Volt drive train is the Gen2 Volt drive train. Who the hell uses a chain to deliver power to the driveshaft besides bikes. The volt runs nothing like a locomotive because all motors are directly connected through gears or chains to the driveshaft. The volt was supposed to work like a train but it was scraped because a variable frequency drive was too difficult for their engineers to figure out, Tesla did. So instead everything goes through a massive gearbox unlike a train where they use electronics to adjust the power to the electric motors that power the wheels.
FFS they downgraded to iron magnet DC motors.
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