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Old 11-27-2018, 10:53 AM   #454
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
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Which ones?
There are only two others.
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"a gasoline/E85-powered engine generator seamlessly provides electricity to power the Volt's electric drive unit while simultaneously sustaining the charge of the battery."
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"The reason it does that is because we want you to arrive with the batteries 'empty,' filling up on grid power costs about 1/6th of what it does with gas."
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As stated earlier, recharging from the grid is less efficient than a gasoline-electric or diesel-electric technology.
As stated earlier, I doubt it, or we'd all be running our houses off of generators.
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