

Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. And GM says the engine has also been tuned to provide better driving performance. The new electric drive system, which includes the electric motors and gears, also weighs about 100 pounds less. Weve found it even overperforms a little, making it 278 miles in our real-world.
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The 2016 Volt will use smaller, lighter battery packs that store more energy than those in today's Volt. The Bolt EV uses the same powertrain as before that provides an EPA-estimated 259 miles of range on a full charge. Owners can often drive to work and back, for instance, and charge the car overnight without using any gas. That's because even 38 miles - let alone the 53 miles the new car will provide - is already more than most people drive on a typical day.

For comparison, a non-hybrid Honda Civic gets about 33 miles per gallon combined.Įven owners of the current Volt model often go weeks or months without refilling the gas tank, according to GM ( GM) and Volt owner Web sites. That's up from 37 miles per gallon for the current Volt. When the new Volt is powered by the gasoline engine it will get about 42 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving. Even then, there will still be notable improvements.
