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11 November 2011

Chevrolet Volt

The Volt is a technological tour de force, "said auto analyst Joe Phillippi to Auto Trends." GM should have successfully completed the development of 8-10 years in just three years. "Volt can travel 0-100 kph in 9 seconds. Motor provide instant electrical power to the front wheels, even though it was reaching speeds of 112 km / h (70 mph). While other electric vehicles are not capable, Volt still provides additional power and spur for faster again. And more importantly, when testing the Volt, which begins with the battery at the point of the minimum content and loaded with four passengers, five-door car is operating entirely within the extended-range mode, and reaching 18 km / liter (43 mpg). Volt fully capable of providing emissions-free transportation for a week and be able to use took the family from Detroit to Chicago during the weekend without worries to charge the battery. It all started with steel body assembly by a robot that uses the panel.


There are more than 900 robots and robot-orbit can perform 285 welds in 14 seconds. This assembly process if stretched in a straight line it would stretch 24 miles along and through the entire factory area with an area of ​​3.6 million square meters. The cars are assembled in this plant include the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne sedans in a factory that employs 1048 people. It produces 35,764 cars last year. Requires more than 1,500 components, where most components are also made ​​up of hundreds of small components to build a car the Volt.
Walter Began, a GM employee who has worked for GM for 15 years, opened the driver's door to facilitate the installation of the dashboard, charging port and the interior. The instrument panel is installed as a single piece containing gauges, center stack with stereo and HVAC controls, steering wheel and pedals. These components are paired to the car by using a ram calls the Volt as a "range-extended electric vehicles," this car type plug-in hybrid because it uses two energy sources. A 16-kilowatt/jam battery provides the energy for mileage from 25 to 50 miles.
In addition, a machine with a capacity of 1.4-liter gasoline engine runs a 53-kilowatt power is still running. A Volt charge port is installed in front of the driver's door by Andrew Farris, a GM employee who has worked for 12 years in designing Hasty charge port on the Volt, where he was a mechanical engineer and his duty to put the plug pack. Here, he checked the port Farris.
Plug is harder, which must be sufficiently strong to be clogged and the revocation process will be done with Motors assembles 16-kilowatt battery pack (lithium-ion) in Brownstown Battery Pack Assembly Plant using cells imported from Korea. GM spent five months and $ 43,000,000 as well as performed at the factory with an area of ​​160,000 square meters to build this package. The size of this package is over 5 feet and 33 inches wide.
  It takes about three hours to build one-car .Mobil package for installation of the drive train, batteries and other components, all of which are mounted from below. All components follow the flow on the existing automated trains on two assembly process flow ensure the pin on the car battery is installed right. Two dozen of the bolts to keep everything in a safe position and everything were in place. That's Steve Johnson, who has been with GM for four thongs using a mechanical lift for lifting and placing components weighing 400-pounds into the Volt.

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