The predicted electric range after an overnight charge was between 73 and 91 miles, the latter figure appearing only once.
Like the Nissan Leaf, the Volt is a bit optimistic in
predicting electric range, especially when you're driving outside of the city and using the climate system.
Not exact matches
Actually, MacCready
predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all -
electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other
range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile
range).
The EPA
predicts a driving
range of 76 miles per charge, although the Focus
Electric's top speed is limited to 84 mph.
It gets more than out of its own way under hard acceleration, and the instrument screen's estimation of your
range on
electric - only power is pretty spot on; I tended to get about 30 miles out of it, as
predicted by the computer, from full charge.
The former power source is
predicted to provide 299hp and 399Nm, while the latter injects 203hp and 450Nm and will also enable about 50 km of
electric - only
range.
That drops to 38 percent for the
range - topping diesel Maxx auto, which is still some way better than the 28 percent residual value the
electric version is
predicted to achieve.
Infiniti haven't provided details about its efficiency figures, nor its
predicted range in full
electric mode.
In fact, AutoBild goes as far as
predicting not one, but three hybrid versions are planned, all with an
electric range up to 50 km.
In all
electric mode you can cruise at 130km / h, although you won't be going far with a
predicted range or 30 km or so.
The bottom line: Ford's
predicting that optimizing a variety of fuel types from diesel to
electric that will work best for the custom and particular driving and
range requirements of the typical driver.