
The results come as GM promotes to bring the new technology to marketplace in late next year. Later this week, the company is formally declaring its battery assembly pack plant in Brownstown Township.
A inexplicable, viral commercializing campaign with the numbers “230” and today’s date had produced speculation on the Internet that the day’s news conference could take on an announcement about how many miles per gallon the electric drive Chevrolet Volt would get. In the image, the zero is a smiling electric outlet.
GM CEO Fritz Henderson constructed the announcement at the Warren Tech Center with a Volt as a backdrop, noting the campaign. “There’s a reason the outlet is smiling,” he said.
Henderson said the Volt will use 25 kilowatt hours per 100 miles.
The m.p.g. figures are calculated below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s draft process for plug-in electric vehicles. Henderson added that GM conceives it will also get triple digit m.p.g. for a combination of city and highway driving. He didn’t give a highway m.p.g.
“From the data we’ve considered, most drivers could run strictly on grid electricity in a Chevy Volt,” Henderson said in a argument. “A car that gets more than 100 miles per gallon is a significant step in the reinvention of the car industry and GM is and will go along to be a leader in that reinvention."
Mileage ratings are hard to count with the Volt. In theory, some drivers would burn no gas for extensive periods of time.
It is an electric-drive vehicle, not a hybrid. GM has said it wishes the Volt to have a 40-mile range on an electrical charge alone.
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