The Chevrolet Volt’s battery pack will come with an eight-year/100,000-mile warranty, the company has confirmed.
Chevrolet claims this is the longest warranty ever offered on an electric car’s battery pack.
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The warranty, available to US customers when the Volt reaches showrooms later this year, will cover all 161 of the lithium-ion battery pack’s components.
General Motors’ executive director of global electric systems said the Volt’s battery pack has already “exceeded our performance targets and is ready to hit the road”.
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Micky Bly added he hoped the warranty would attract customers to the Volt’s range-extender hybrid technology and would “help reduce dependence on petroleum”.
Pre-production of the Volt started in January and the firm has now completed more than one million miles and four million hours of testing of it and its various components.
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The Volt will be sold in the UK from 2012, while Vauxhall’s own version of the Volt, the Ampera, is expected to launch in the same year.
