{"id":96505,"date":"2009-12-23T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/23\/video-chevy-volt-squeals-tires-around-the-track\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:28:00","slug":"video-chevy-volt-squeals-tires-around-the-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/96505","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Chevy Volt squeals tires around the track"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chevy Volt track testing – Click above to watch the video after the break<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nFuel efficient cars are slow, right? Just ask Jeremy Clarkson, who famously pitted a Toyota Prius against a BMW M3<\/a> around a test track to prove that the hybrid isn’t very efficient when pushed to its limit. While it’s true that hybrids and diesels have a reputation for being more than a bit poky in the name of saving a few gallons of gas, each generation seems to improve in that regard, and GM is hoping that the upcoming Chevy Volt<\/a> will abolish that preconceived notion altogether.<\/p>\n

Witness this video for proof, where, as GM<\/a> puts it, the Volt ‘burns rubber without burning gas.’ Here we see the car’s chief engineer Andrew Farah wring the electric car around a series of orange cones making up a test track at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. As you’re likely aware by now, the Volt isn’t a typical hybrid vehicle that requires gasoline to operate. For the first 40 miles or so, the Volt operates solely on electricity, assuming of course that the battery is charged up.<\/p>\n

In the video pasted after the break, Farah is piloting the Volt in EV mode, meaning that the range-extending gasoline engine never fires up. We wouldn’t expect to get the full 40-mile range when hustling the Volt around a race track, but the fact that it can perform as well as it does without emitting any tailpipe emissions is a laudable feat. So, how will it perform around the Top Gear<\/em> test track with Stiggy behind the wheel? Click past the break<\/a> to hear those low-rolling-resistance tires squeal!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Video added after jump.<\/p>\n

[Source: Chevrolet VoltAge<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Videos, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Chevy Volt track testing – Click above to watch the video after the break Fuel efficient cars are slow, right? Just ask Jeremy Clarkson, who famously pitted a Toyota Prius against a BMW M3 around a test track to prove that the hybrid isn’t very efficient when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}