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Originally Posted by Car&Driver Range The battery pack should store 20 kWh of juice, giving the Spark EV a range of roughly 60 to 70 real-world miles. Its sibling, the Volt—a car from which the Spark EV’s engineers borrowed liberally—is good for 40 or so miles, while the Nissan Leaf averaged 58 miles in our testing. |
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Originally Posted by srinih75
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I got a bit too excited to check this out and the result gave me some bad news. Based on the details in the link below, GM is not planning to launch this in India. This is because of the high cost of the Li batteries. Guess Reva is the only production EV car available in India! http://indianautosblog.com/2011/06/chevrolet-beat-ev-2 |
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Originally Posted by extreme_torque
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400nm for a car as small as this. A pocket rocket for the city in the truest sense of word! |
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Originally Posted by Eminenttismo
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Anyway, GM recently quoted that the batteries are indeed going to get cheaper over a span of a year or so. I don't exactly remember where I read it, but I read it in a Volt related topic. But once the EV segment in India heats up, GM India will be prompt to launch this. At least it'll be in the market a little early. |
| With the Chevrolet Volt, Chevrolet accounts for more than 50 percent of all plug-in electric vehicle sales in the United States and Spark EV builds on Chevrolet’s proven electric motor and battery development programs. When it goes on sale next summer, the Spark EV is expected to have among the best EV battery range in its segment and be the first electric vehicle to offer SAE Combo DC Fast Charging capability, enabling the Spark EV to reach 80-percent battery charge in just 20 minutes. |
| So, first/best/most? Whatever. All these EVs have roughly the same performance stats, so we have to look at other aspects to differentiate them. On that front, the Spark will be the first (ah, sorry) production vehicle with the SAE combo charger port for DC Fast Charging. This will allow the battery to get 80 percent of a full battery charge in about 20 minutes. Again, this is about the same performance as CHAdeMO DC fast charging, which is already available in the Leaf and the Mitsubishi i. |
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