Teardown
reveals Chevy volT’s electRonic secRets
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By R ic k D eMeis • Au toMot iv e De signl ine
30 edn eUroPe | JULY 2012
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ngineers sometimes get assignments that are not only challenging learning experiences but also just plain fun. That scenario happened when John Scott-Thomas, UBM TechInsights’ product-marketing manager, and Al Steier, Munro & Associates’ senior associate and “design prophet,” recently took apart a Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid car to see what makes it tick, whir, and hum—and how its designers put together all of the technology in the car. Over the three days it took to creatively disassemble the Volt, they learned many things about the vehicle (see sidebar “Anatomy of an automotive teardown” and references 1 and 2).
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