The auto magazine “Green Car Journal” picked the Chevy Volt as its yet-to-exist car of the future, very near future. According to an article on the Sundance website, “Over 200 engineers and 50 designers are working on the Volt and another 400 are working on related subsystems and electric components” to get this car mass produced next year.
The Volt had a lot of competition but the editor of “Green Car Journal” liked the Volt’s “bold and far-reaching approach,” along with exceptional fuel efficiency and at a reasonable cost. According to the magazine the Volt gives consumers what they want, a car that runs on a battery for pennies while running errands or up to 40 miles. And for longer trips, it has an engine that drives a generator. The engine is capable of getting 100 mpg plus.
Carol Browner, special asst. to President Obama for energy and climate change got up close and personal with the Volt and found it to be very comfortable and was excited by the fact that a person can tool around for 40 miles on a single charge. She knows the average worker commutes 40 miles or less to work every day, and that would amount to 80% less emissions from those commuters.
She’s posted this on the White House website and also blogged, “This kind of innovation and shift in design is key to the renewed success of the American auto industry.” She also commented about the Ford Fusion and funding for battery investments in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. She called it forward thinking and used the words that are music to my ears, ENCOURAGING, SUPPORTING, and NURTURING, new innovation.
Finally, our government will reward alternative energy innovation and help green energy technology move forward instead of throwing out roadblocks to alternatives on behalf of big oil, of which the biggest roadblock has been denial about global warming.
http://www.sundancechannel.com/blogs/ecommunity_news/390443055
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