{"id":2536,"date":"2013-03-05T10:25:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:39:45","slug":"the-new-long-range-holden-volt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/the-new-long-range-holden-volt\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Long Range Holden Volt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How would you like a car that costs $2.50 for 80 km, vs a Petrol car that costs you $10 PLUS for 80 km?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the new Long Range <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/holden\/holden-volt-review\/4354\/\">Holden Volt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Bv1hDjyfyo\" height=\"265\" width=\"522\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mgd69GQh2Cc\" height=\"242\" width=\"525\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first of the range of Holden Volt Electric Cars will be approx. $59,990 AUD<\/p>\n<p>The Volt is a range extender concept, or an Extended Range Electric Vehicle, that simply means that the onboard batteries allow a range of 80 km when fully charged<\/p>\n<p>They are then charged by a 4 cylinder generator powered by gasoline, while you drive.<\/p>\n<p>This allows 80 km of travel (electric only) using the stored charge in the 16 kw\/hr lithium ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>You can also charge the car&#8217;s batteries via a charging cord which will plug into a 240v home outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Batteries only range of 80km will be extended to more than 600 km by the onboard generator, and unlike most hybrid cars, it runs exclusively on battery electric power.<\/p>\n<p>This is made possible by a 53 kw generator that charges as you drive to produce 111 Kw via the electric drive motor.<\/p>\n<p>This is the killer feature of the Volt, as the major problem with electric only cars is that when the batteries are flat, that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Most consumers don&#8217;t like the idea of being &#8220;limited&#8221; to driving only a set range.<\/p>\n<p>They want to drive as far as they can in a day, and the Volt will allow that, unlike other electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>Price: $59,990 plus on-road<br \/>\nEngine: 1.4 litre 16-valve petrol 4cyl, two electric drive motors, 16.5kW\/h battery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103129468876474677567\">https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103129468876474677567<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/about.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/about.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you like a car that costs $2.50 for 80 km, vs a Petrol car that costs you $10 PLUS for 80 km? Take a look at the new Long Range Holden Volt The first of the range of Holden Volt Electric Cars will be approx. $59,990 AUD The Volt is a range extender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12212,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/12212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}