Re: theWatt Podcast 77

"Personally, I hope for a future where I can drive an EV (or a Volt) that is charged up by Solar panels on the roof of my house. I hope this is a transportation future we can all agree on, but probably we can't."

I think we can all get behind that. Interesting tidbit about the Volt. The Volt should allow roughly 70% of your driving to be done off of the batteries and so it's possible that the gasoline portion could be idle for months at a time. This is actually a problem because gasoline is quite susceptible to microbes eating whatever's in the gasoline and basically converting the gasoline into some useless liquid. This is also a problem on sailboats with outboard motors and I think you have to add some additive to avoid the issue.

I'm sure the engineers will sort it out. I'm surprised that they put in a 45L (12 gallons) fuel tank into the Volt though, I'm sure they'll find that 45L is excessive for a car like the Volt. I wonder how the extra weight of that fuel affects the electric range.