Chevy Volt

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@vw16vcabby

biggest gripe about chevy-- what about the energy needed to charge the battery pack? you think that electricity grows on telephone poles? turbines need to be run somehow–be it windmill/hydro/nuclear. so if you are tapping the grid to power your car, you are effectively going to strain our electric resources. so Allegheny power’s kwh rate is definitely going up. you may save $ at the pump, yet it will come back via electric bill or some other bill. that carbon footprint bullshit will get hit one way or another. now if the volt could regenerate its electricity, it is a win.

I’d imagine that many of the vehicles will be charged at night, when demand on the grid is lower.

Think about the resulting electric bill this way: what’s easier to increase the efficiency of, millions of gasoline (or any other resource, really) powered engines, or one power plant? As new technologies become available (higher density solar, more efficient wind turbines, fusion power, etc.), we’ll further increase the efficiency and decrease the resulting emissions. Investing in the power grid by purchasing electricity to power vehicles will allow these technologies to come to fruition by consumer demand.