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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Can you say Volt range anxiety which the prime doesn't have?
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What, does the Prime go another 10 miles further than the Volt?
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Having something on the shelf is not the same thing as having it in everyday use, with production lines set up. And "as good as it gets for now" might be pretty antiquated in 5 or 10 years.
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Electric motors don't really get much better over time. Maybe they will go from 95% efficient to 96% efficient with great difficulty, but there isn't much room for improvement.
Batteries are probably nearing a plateau, except perhaps in economies of scale.
That's the thing with EV technology; it's dead simple. The Volt did the difficult thing of perfecting how to blend an ICE engine with electric motors, and it's about as good as you could make it. Pull that off the shelf in 10 years, and you've got just about as good as anything.