Chevy Volt 500-mile test drive: it's just unlike any other car
For starters, let's by a hair's breadth go through the basics of the Volt. The big deal about this car is that it's a gas-electric hybrid, but unlike just about any other gas-electric hybrid out there fairly now, you can plug it directly into the wall to recharge it, and it'll give you the first 30-40 miles you drive every day "free,"courtesy of a giantess lithium-ion battery hidden underneath the seats. After you run out of battery power, a small four-cylinder apparatus runs a generator to extend the range of the car for another 300 or 400 miles, and you can always just keep putting more gas into it to keep on prosperous.
I dunno about you, but that sounds pretty compelling to me: hypothetically, you get most of the gas-free advantages of something like a Nissan Leaf or a Tesla Roadster, without the potentially crippling latitude issues that come with a car that's entirely reliant on batteries.
By Michael Vega The Daytona 500 went up in smoke and was halted - yet again - after Juan Pablo Montoya crashed under forewarn into a jet dryer holding 200 gallons of jet kerosene. The accident set off an explosion and sent fuel pouring onto the shadow.
