Chevrolet Volt battery gets eight-year, 100,000-mile battery guaranty customary
Chevrolet is subsidy the battery record with what it hopes will be the confidence-inspiring guarantee for impending Volt buyers.
The GM brand has announced it will offer an 8-year, 100,000 mile (160,000 km) guaranty upon the battery for the Chevy Volt indication when it debuts subsequent year. It is a single of a most extensive guaranty offering by any automaker upon batteries, covering all 161 tools of the Volt power-pack. The warrant is also negotiable to new owners of a car but assign.
“The Chevrolet Volt’s batteries have exceeded the opening targets and have been ready to hit a highway,” pronounced GM’s executive of global electrical systems, Micky Bly, in the press recover.
The Chevy Volt is an extended-range, all-electric car powered by an electric motor producing 112 kW (150 bhp) and 273 lb-ft (370 Nm). The Volt can run up to 40 miles (65 km) on electrical stream alone. Afterwards, the small gasoline engine kicks in to offer as a generator of electric power to assign a 16-kWh lithium-ion battery as well as magnify a operation to about 340 miles (547 km). Chevrolet says a Volt will get 230 mpg – reduction than 1 liter per km, though which figure is still tentative acceptance.
The Chevrolet Volt is set to go into prolongation after this year. The Volt will go upon sale in a U.S. as well as Europe in 2011.
Source: GM/Chevrolet
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Chevrolet Stands Behind Volt With Standard Eight-Year, 100,000-Mile Battery Warranty
Volt’s long-life battery guaranty many comprehensive of any electric vehicle All 161 battery components certified to ward off extreme temperatures, turf and driving patterns GM’s Brownstown Township, Mich., battery plant will proceed regular prolongation in August
Brownstown Township, Mich. – The Chevrolet Volt electric car with extended operation will provide clientele with an unprecedented, standard, eight-year/100,000-mile warranty upon the modernized, lithium-ion battery. It is a automotive industry’s longest, many extensive battery guaranty for an electric car, as well as is negotiable at no cost to other car owners.
“The Chevrolet Volt’s batteries have exceeded the performance targets as well as have been ready to strike a highway,” pronounced Micky Bly, GM senior manager executive, tellurian electrical systems. “Our clientele are making the joining to record that will help revoke the coherence upon petroleum. In turn, we have been creation the joining to the clientele to broach the top standards for value, reserve, extravagant, opening as well as trustworthiness for an rare 8 years/100,000 miles.”
The Volt’s comprehensive battery guaranty covers all 161 battery components, 95 percent of which are designed and engineered by GM, in addition to a thermal government system, charging complement and electric drive components.
The Volt is a only electric car which can work under a full operation of climates and pushing conditions without stipulations or regard about being stranded by the depleted battery. It has the operation of about 340 miles as well as is powered with electricity during all times. For up to a first 40 miles, the Volt is powered solely by electrical energy stored in the 16-kWh lithium-ion battery, regulating no fuel as well as producing no emissions. When a Volt’s lithium-ion battery runs low, an engine/generator seamlessly operates to extend the driving operation another 300 miles upon the full tank of fuel. (see Volt Freedom Drive)
The Volt’s modernized, lithium-ion battery is written to broach the value, reserve, extravagant, opening, continuance as well as reliability Chevrolet clientele design. Key battery facilities include:
Thermal government for continuance as well as trustworthiness: The Volt is a only mass-market electric vehicle with the battery that can be warmed or cooled. The battery is designed to provide arguable operation, when plugged in, at temperatures as low as -13 degrees Fahrenheit (-25 C) and as tall as 122 degrees Fahrenheit (+50 C). In cold weather, the battery will be preheated during charging to yield full power capability. In prohibited weather – a many challenging surroundings for the battery – the Volt’s battery can be chilled during charging. The Volt’s glass thermal management system can additionally be powered during pushing by a battery or engine/generator. Diagnostics for reserve as well as performance: The Volt’s battery government complement invariably monitors a battery real-time for best operations. More than 500 diagnostics run during 10 times per second, keeping lane of a Volt’s battery container; 85 percent of the diagnostics ensure a battery container is handling safely, while a remaining 15 percent keep track of battery performance as well as life. Cell pattern as well as chemistry for performance as well as potency: GM’s selection of a prismatic cell design as well as LG Chem’s manganese spinel lithium-ion chemistry is written to yield long life and high power output, with a properly maintained heat. This enables improved car increase in speed as well as increased regenerative braking capacity for softened car potency. Energy government for continuance: Fully charging or fully depleting a battery shortens its life. The Volt’s appetite management system never entirely charges or depletes a battery. The Volt’s battery has tip as well as bottom “aegis zones” to assistance safeguard long life.
Testing for durability, reliability, safety as well as performance
GM engineers have finished some-more than 1 million miles as well as 4 million hours of validation testing of Volt battery packs given 2007, as good as any pack’s 9 modules as well as 288 cells. The growth, validation as well as test teams have met thousands of specifications as well as certified each of the Volt battery’s components.
Tests embody short circuit, gnawing, dirt, stroke, water submersion, vanquish as well as penetration, and impassioned temperature swings total with assertive drive cycles, also well known as “Shake, Bake and Roll.”
Ready for prolongation
GM’s Brownstown Township plant, which began office building antecedent batteries in January, shortly will begin unchanging battery production. (see GM First Battery Build)
“We’re relocating quick to deliver for a customer as well as ensure a Volt launch stays upon lane,” said Nancy Laubenthal, plant executive of the Brownstown Battery Plant. “Last August we announced a investment in a Brownstown trickery as well as in January built the initial completed battery container. Now we are finishing pre-production batteries as well as shortly we will proceed office building prolongation batteries for Chevrolet Volts which will be delivered to dealers before a finish of a year.”
Last year, a U.S. Department of Energy comparison 45 companies, universities and organizations in 28 states – including GM’s Brownstown plant – to share some-more than $2 billion in awards for electric drive as well as battery production, and travel foundation. Nearly half of the awards have been directed towards for cell, battery as well as materials manufacturing comforts in Michigan.
