The 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV has been officially rated at 128/109 MPGe (e stands for “equivalent”) city/highway with an 82-mile range. Combined, the mileage numbers come in at 119 MPGe, leapfrogging the 116 MPGe rating of the Nissan Leaf while also undercutting the Leaf in price, with a starting MSRP of $25,000 (after incentives).
The Spark EV goes on sale this summer, beginning with California and Oregon. It takes seven hours to recharge it from a 240V source. In addition, the Spark EV is the first vehicle on the market to offer the recently-approved SAE combo charger for DC Fast Charging. The optional charger will be available shortly after launch and will allow users to recharge up to 80 percent of the Spark EV’s capacity in approximately 20 minutes, while being able to handle multiple DC Fast Charges daily.
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Awesome efficiency, but the battery fit’s less than a a gas-gallon of electricity? This needs to be fixed.
As not to put all their eggs in one basket so to speak of, I’d like to see GM purchase a motorcycle firm. With demand for large bikes slowing up recently now would be an ideal time to buy (& while there are still some left to buy), yes I know there is little money to be made in bikes compared with cars however I feel GM diversifying into other areas of business can only be a good thing.
I think we all were hoping for greater range but hey its a city car at the end of the day, and with someone who has a garage and a normal commute time, excellent… Here is the challenge though say one lives in Chicago Metro and your woking your happy job out in Naperville not to far from your Happy house when suddenly the company you work for takes a power dump and lays people off and you find a job in the far stretches of the North suburbs say lincolnshire or vernon hills… Your Commute is no longer short its much more complicated; when people take things like this into account they get range anxiety… And this is very common in Chicago where the rail system is well less than reliabe when compared to other world metropolitans. Anyway… Like the car wish it had game changing range…
It is funny how they always say no emissions. Have they forgot were the power is coming from? I am going to start printing off coal powered stickers and putting them on electric cars. hahahaha
And for those of us on hydro, then what? More stickers?
And how does gasoline gets pumped into your car? With the same electricity from burning coal! So using a gasoline powered car burns fuel TWICE! You should put both coal and petroleum powered stickers on your car!
Can you make your own gas without electricity? You don’r see it because you don’t mind that others are burning coal so you can get gas. There are thousands of EV owners who use solar and wind power to charge their cars. They use no coal, and no gas, so no contamination! Suck on your tailpipe with the engine on, you gas burner!
GM for along time had a big share in Suzuki, well before they offered cars here in the states. I do not know if they still have a share in the company at this time.
Suzuki now VW (apparently purchased shares in it for the small cars and its bike range) even though its now VW part owned GM still builds the Vauxhall & Opel Agila (Suzuki based). Also in the past GM has had many Suzuki cars in its range, Agila, Rascal, Holden Scurry, Chevy/Geo Tracker, Chevy Metro & Holden Barina to name a few.
Eric, Wind, Solar and Nuclear exist as well. Whos to say there cant be solar stations for folks to park there cars at… Tired of you Debbie downers…
Yabadabadoo…? not proud enough of what you say to put you name on it?…… I worked 3 years for a company that does solar and wind research. I am currently working for a power plant company in the testing devision. I am well aware of how it all works. What do you do? Wind hurts power plants did you know that? As it goes up and down the plants are trying to keep a stable reliable supply of energy. These 700,000Hp steam turbines don’t like going up and down all the time. That also means that we need power plants to make up for the times when it is cloudy and the wind does not blow. I also never said that it was a bad thing. These plants are moor efficient than car engines. I was just pointing out the fact that people do not look at the entire picture. I would prob get one of these cars if price was not so hi.
Grawdaddy you are right but do you know what a small fraction of our power come from Hydro. Can’t remember how much but it is around 4% and very susceptible to weather changes like drought.
Hydro is 2/3 of my whole country’s power grid, and seeing how we have 20% of all the fresh water on earth as surface water, if we ever had a drought here, EVERYONE on earth would already be suffering even harder than we would be.
Eric, I have absolutely nothing against power plants what are you talking about…
Eric, To some your post would read that you were anti coal power, that is how I read it… Many people slander electric vehicles even on this sight because the polution comes from another source coaI to be specific. For the record I have nothing against coal power…
Grawdaddy “Hydro is 2/3 of my whole country’s power grid”…. where do you live? That is an impresive amount. Do you know what the total capacity it? I was talking about the US.
Yabadabadoo I work at a coal plant and saying coal powered to me is a statement of pride. It is one of the cheapest and most reliable forms of power…. Well it is now but if Oboma has his way your power bill might double.
Eric, Ok…