"The financial payback is not there," said Jake Fisher, a senior automotive engineer at Consumer Reports Auto Test Center. A hybrid, he said in an interview, would make more sense. (The Volt - which runs as a fully electric plug-in vehicle and switches to gasoline power once that battery is depleted - cost Consumer Reports $48,000 at a dealership before a $7,500 federal tax credit. Toyota's Prius is about half that price.)

Then on Tuesday, Ford Motor Co. seized on the negative press for the Volt by issuing its own press release: "Weather Climates No Problem for Ford Focus Electric's Liquid-Heated Battery System."
But Bill Wallace, director of Global Battery Systems for General Motors Corp., Performance V Capsules Fake didn't flinch.

"It turns out batteries are like people. They love room temperature,'' Wallace said Thursdayat an energy forum at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Wallace chalked up the bad review from Consumer Reports to being first in the market.

"Nobody - Ford, Nissan or anybody - has anything better,'' he said. "I'm certain that a year or two from now, when they're actually in the market and they're actually showing cars, they will not be able to outperform us."



Other reviews noting the limited range of electric vehicles in extreme temperatures are likely on the way.

"There's a new battlefield and certainly the technology's moving very quickly and everybody wants to say they're the best," Fisher said. "There's variations. Some will be better than others. But in the end, any of the technologies that are out there are very limited in terms of their capacity."

Even Ford seemed to back off a bit on its claims. "We're not seeing a big breakthrough in the next few years in terms of where you will suddenly be able to drive an electric vehicle and not have the battery be affected by temperature," Sherif Marakby, director of electrification programs and engineering at Ford, said in an interview Thursday.








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