Comments on: Chevy Volt Takes a Dive – for Safety! http://gas2.org/2009/08/31/chevy-volt-takes-a-dive-for-safety/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:34:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Shurts http://gas2.org/2009/08/31/chevy-volt-takes-a-dive-for-safety/#comment-12176 Steve Shurts Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:55:11 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3336#comment-12176 If Chevrolet can't make the Volt so that you can drive it in the rain, they are complete morons and fit right in with all other government programs. However, my concern would be the combination of a crash and water. By now, we all know (or, at least should now) that Lithium and water don't mix - well, they do mix but the results are often quite explosive. What would happen if a Volt was in a crash which compromised the integrity of the battery case(s) and then the vehicle was exposed to water? It might well blow up leaving a large hole where the crash victims should have been found. Spraying the vehicle in a high-tech car wash will do little to test the cars ability to withstand such an accident... If Chevrolet can’t make the Volt so that you can drive it in the rain, they are complete morons and fit right in with all other government programs. However, my concern would be the combination of a crash and water. By now, we all know (or, at least should now) that Lithium and water don’t mix – well, they do mix but the results are often quite explosive.

What would happen if a Volt was in a crash which compromised the integrity of the battery case(s) and then the vehicle was exposed to water? It might well blow up leaving a large hole where the crash victims should have been found. Spraying the vehicle in a high-tech car wash will do little to test the cars ability to withstand such an accident…

]]> By: Steve Shurts http://gas2.org/2009/08/31/chevy-volt-takes-a-dive-for-safety/#comment-35517 Steve Shurts Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:55:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3336#comment-35517 If Chevrolet can't make the Volt so that you can drive it in the rain, they are complete morons and fit right in with all other government programs. However, my concern would be the combination of a crash and water. By now, we all know (or, at least should now) that Lithium and water don't mix - well, they do mix but the results are often quite explosive. What would happen if a Volt was in a crash which compromised the integrity of the battery case(s) and then the vehicle was exposed to water? It might well blow up leaving a large hole where the crash victims should have been found. Spraying the vehicle in a high-tech car wash will do little to test the cars ability to withstand such an accident... If Chevrolet can’t make the Volt so that you can drive it in the rain, they are complete morons and fit right in with all other government programs. However, my concern would be the combination of a crash and water. By now, we all know (or, at least should now) that Lithium and water don’t mix – well, they do mix but the results are often quite explosive.

What would happen if a Volt was in a crash which compromised the integrity of the battery case(s) and then the vehicle was exposed to water? It might well blow up leaving a large hole where the crash victims should have been found. Spraying the vehicle in a high-tech car wash will do little to test the cars ability to withstand such an accident…

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