RegGuheert said:
Volusiano said:
I guess that's why they put a qualifier in there and said that the ICE won't start by itself. That situation only works if the car is started by the owner either directly or via a remote-start command.
Sure, I quoted that part. But that still doesn't prevent a Volt from filling a garage with CO inadvertently.
Here's a scenario that seems plausible to me: What happens in a couple of years when people no longer get OnStar for free and they stop paying for it? Will they go out to the garage and turn on the car to preheat it, not knowing it might run the gasoline motor?
Maybe this is far-fetched, but I can imagine it happening to some Volt owners. Is there something preventing this from happening?
I think if you own a Volt and you start the car (manually or remotely, doesn't matter), especially in cold weather, you must assume that at any moment there's a good chance of the ICE turning on to help heating up the cabin, so you have to use the same principle as operating an ICE car where you don't do it in an enclosed space.
In fact, many people complain that the ICE turns on in cold weather too often (for their taste) so in 2013 they changed the software to let people select to not have the ICE turned on unless it's VERY cold (as opposed to just cold). For people who don't have this new option (2012 and 2011 owners), they've figured out to trick the ICE from not turning on too often by running the cabin in Comfort mode upon (instead of ECO mode) to make the electric heater from the battery to work harder at warming up the cabin to prevent the ICE from turning on as often to provide heat to the cabin.