General Motors plans to lower the price of hybrid electric vehicles, the Chevrolet Volt in order to compete with pure electric vehicle Nissan Leaf.
GM and Nissan are really involved into exciting Electric Vehicle Competition
Competition is heating up the two vehicles while Nissan in advertisements on television cornering Volt.
As reported by Reuters, to this mass-produced electric vehicle by the manufacturer of the only Volt and Leaf, and they are competing to reach consumers.
Nissan in 2011 May is led by the number of sales more than doubled from the 1142 Volt units versus 493 units.
According to General Motors, they had to "bend" some units of Volt 'ready stock' so that more units of a sample at the dealers.
Nissan Leaf 2011 cost 32 780 dollars while the Chevy Volt for $ 41 thousand dollars before discount. In the United States, buyers of electric vehicles can file a federal tax deduction of up to $ 7,500.
Volt 2012 model price after the revision of the General Motors would be 39,995 dollars. Until now Volt has sold 2167 units 2184 units while Nissa Leaf. Leaf is cheaper than the Volt, but no mileage is not as far as the Volt and need time to recharge electric.
Fuel efficiency on the Volt is 93 miles per gallon when using pure electricity while Leaf 99 miles per gallon.
Volt uses two conventional gasoline engines are engines that power electric machines supplied battery.
The vehicle will run about 35 miles on battery before the gasoline engine turns on. Total mileage is about 300 miles in a state of "full charge" and "full tank".
Nissan Leaf is driven purely by the electric power with the distance of about 100 miles before the batteries need to be charged.
Constraints on the two vehicles, as quoted from the Accenture report, is that consumers still thinking between the unit price is not cheap but the distance is limited, not to mention it took "fuel charge".
