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Friday, March 4, 2016
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SPECIAL SECTION courtesy of
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Win a Chevrolet Volt!* Provided by your BC Chevrolet Dealers!
Readers 19 or older can enter via the CONTEST pages at any of the following Black Press sites: ✓ abbynews.com ✓ theprogress.com ✓ langleytimes.com ✓ mapleridgenews.com ✓ missioncityrecord.com ✓ peacearchnews.com ✓ thenownewspaper.com See it at this year’s show at Vancouver Convention Centre West, Wednesday, March 23 to Sunday, March 27
Visit the Volt gallery at DrivewayCanada.ca
*Contest ends at 7 p.m. PT on March 28, 2016.
All-New electric Chevrolet Volt is auto show prize The future is electric when it comes must be hooked up for a recharge to how our personal vehicles are once it reaches its limit. Once the powered. generator kicks in (range extender The transition from gasoline enin manufacturer-speak), on a full gines will not be complete for pertank of regular gas, you could drive haps decades but early examples of up to another 600 kilometres. That electrical propulsion, be they pure translates roughly to the equivelectric, gasoline hybrids or plug-in alent fuel economy of about 5.7 hybrids, clearly indicate this positive L/100km. The all-new 2016 Yours truly spent a week direction is no longer a pipe dream of futurists. driving the new Volt, which Volt with extended Last year, we gave away an all-elecis a darn sight prettier and range, offers up to tric Nissan LEAF in our Vancouver sleeker than the first gener80 kilometres of International Auto Show contest ation. And now the all-new and it attracted a record-breaking pure electric driving interior provides seating for 34,558 entries. This year, we are which makes it far more on a full charge then five, pleased to announce that we are appealing for families looking for the onboard gasgiving you the chance to win the an eco-friendly sedan. keys to an electric Chevrolet Volt powered generator Big improvements to the instruprovided by your BC Chevrolet Dealensures the battery ment panel and controls. The Volt ers. (see it at this year’s show at retains its dual digital colour disVancouver Convention Centre West, stays charged. plays with an eight-inch-diagonal Wednesday, March 23 to Sunday, reconfigurable screen. An additionKeith Morgan March 27). al eight-inch-diagonal touch screen The all-new 2016 Volt with extendin the centre of the instrument ed range, offers around 76 kilometres of pure panel controls the Chevrolet MyLink system. electric driving on a full charge. Once you exceed You are constantly aware of how much juice you that range, the onboard gas-powered generator are using. Green cars always challenge drivers to fires up quietly and ensures the battery tops up compete with themselves to get the most out of to keep the dual electric motors running. It offers the vehicle in fuel efficiency. For instance, when the best of both worlds and removes the ‘range I picked up the car the screen showed there was anxiety’ associated with an electric vehicle that around 66-kilometres of electric range. A 10-min-
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ute freeway trip and almost 100 klicks and I was at 61-km range. Do the math! It’s magic! By the way, reaching 100 km/h reportedly takes just 8.4 seconds. I say reportedly because I didn’t have a stop watch. What I love about electric power is the Formula 1 start you can make at the lights if you are feeling naughty. Zero to 50 in just 2.6 secs. Yep, a family sedan that leaves the rest in its dust! Not that I’m encouraging such behavior, just saying. Of course, city stop-go traffic soon brings one down to earth and drains the battery but if you anticipate lights, smooth out the acceleration and make full use of the power regeneration when you brake or coast down hills, you can get back on the eco-track. Incidentally, you can set the amount of regeneration that suits your driving style. I charged overnight on a regular domestic garage power point. By morning it was at maximum range. You can cut that time in half and better with a charger designed to make maximum use of the power on tap. The Volt offers new standard and available safety features including a standard rear-vision camera, 10 standard air bags, including driver and front-passenger knee air bags. Also available as options are such active safety features as ‘lane keep’ assist with lane departure warning, side blind zone alert with lane change alert, rear cross traffic alert, forward collision alert with following distance indicator, front automatic braking, and
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advanced park assist with front and rear park assist (semi-automatic parallel parking). Pricing before government incentive rebates starts at $38,390. In B.C., with the full rebate, that drops to $33,390. Take one for a very quiet spin and then enter to win! keith.morgan@drivewaybc.ca An auto show preview will appear in Driveway in two weeks.
Safety Tip: The odds of crashing increase by five times when using your phone, whether dialing, texting, reading or using social media. If you can’t resist your phone while driving, turn it off or put it in the trunk of your car to avoid the temptation.
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