{"id":5523,"date":"2011-03-28T14:23:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2011-03-28T14:23:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:23:43","slug":"volvo-c30-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5523","title":{"rendered":"Volvo C30 Electric Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Nissan’s Leaf electric car being launched in the UK last week - with the severe limitations currently associated with electric cars being heavily glossed over by the greenies on its debut – I was interested in this article about Volvo’s C30 electric car<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article doesn’t give any general details, but I was bemused by the fact that it has to use hydrocarbon fuel to keep it running in its country of origin!<\/p>\n

But I had a scout around and found this old article roughly outlining its specifications.<\/p>\n

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Volvo has tested a handful of C30 BEV prototypes over the past six months and claimed that the e-car has a reliable range of over 90 miles. The car can do 0-60mph in 11 seconds, Volvo added, but its top speed is 80mph. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So. It will probably have a real range of under <\/em>90 miles, and this will get less as the batteries age. It’s slow. And it isn’t likely to be launched before 2014 at the earliest.<\/p>\n

I must admit that I am still in the dark over what happens if you start running a lot of the auxiliary functions, like heaters, wipers, heated rear window, and so on. Or if the kids have their Nintendos plugged into the auxiliary socket. I don’t think the quoted range per charge takes any of that into account, yet it is still a paltry sub-100 mile figure.<\/p>\n

Electric cars are not <\/em>the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Nissan’s Leaf electric car being launched in the UK last week - with the severe limitations currently associated with electric cars being heavily glossed over by the greenies on its debut – I was interested in this article about Volvo’s C30 electric car. The article doesn’t give any general details, but I was bemused by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,102,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t