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you're looking at the Chevrolet Volt which while it is a technology story in electrification it's also a bit of a electrification story relative to the community and the engineering community when you think of all the different things that we're really doing here while we work with our cell partner LG Chem on cells and cell technology we put those together in a battery pack that's been designed here in inside General Motors and built here in Brownstown Michigan which is then sent up to our Detroit Hamtramck vehicle assembly plant where the Volt is assembled we also get our drive unit which is an all new design from our warren transmission plant so while we're electrifying the industry for consumers in many ways we're also electrifying the industry relative to where we do the work and where we build the products I mean Detroit has such a rich legacy history I mean some of the world's first vehicles remain here you know and so much of the industry is based around vehicle manufacturing in a vehicle like this what is the total weight of this year where total weight here we're in the 3800 75 pound and has the class and how much of that is battery what all way to the battery the weight of the batteries in kilograms is 187 miles like pounds a large amount yes and the range on this vehicle this vehicle go fifty miles on a church do you want to chart and then of course it has a unleaded gasoline engine as well yes a regular gasoline our smartphones obviously lithium ion lithium polymer in some cases for more curved designs our Mac books are laptops you know this all live him but only getting 500 cells before we see significant degradation in terms of lifespan so I had overheard the engineer discuss 6,000 cycles before things starts to degrade can you talk a little bit more about that sure well what Bill wall is our battery director said was that while cell phones are set up with a you know a certain set of requirements what we use for an electric vehicle is very different cell phone what do you think about it one of the most important things is sighs okay sighs today is very important while size is important also in the Volt but but we actually have more room to work with yeah so we work with our cell supplier LG Chem again to get more like six thousand cycles before we see a significant degradation and and that's just very important because consumers want something they know is going to last something I've always wondered about is why can't we have electric vehicles with a thousand or 1500 mile range what is it is it just the sheer size of the batteries and the weight pretty much the sheer size of the batteries just like we were talking about before in your cell phone right yeah it can be needs to be very small in your car it can be larger but it can't be as large as the entire car I mean we're always looking at things from a mobile technology standpoint so what kind of adaptations have been made here you with the console and everything like is there Android auto enabled within it and so our car has both Android auto and apple carplay in it so whether you're an Apple user an Android user you should be able to link your phone in and its are you guys going to be making any apps available so that people can see diagnostic information or kind of stuff you know still talk a little bit more about the mobile more to come more to come future on apps all right well once a big thanks to you for your time sir Gnomeo pleasure talking with you