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不怕麻煩的可以閱讀這些文章: IBM outlines how it helped Chevrolet with the Volt’s development IIHS says 2011 Chevrolet Volt and Nissan LEAF are practically as safe as larger cars Chevrolet Volt assembly plant begins construction of solar panel arrays Volt Safety System 首先就是volt很耐撞，撞了以后也沒(méi)發(fā)生起火或者其他情況。這個(gè)是Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)做的，高速情況下裝一下，不會(huì )出現讓我們擔心的問(wèn)題。 有個(gè)哥們挺有意思的，寫(xiě)了這些： The Volt has three and perhaps four advantages over the Leaf. First it’s heavier. Rather than saying that the Volt weighs more than an Impala I think of the Volt as weighing more than a Mercedes E class sedan. You can’t say that about the Leaf. Volt竟然和奔馳E級的車(chē)一樣重，看來(lái)電池還是比較給力，Volt其實(shí)是一輛挺小巧的。 Second is that almost 80% of the steel in the Volt is high strength steel which protects the passenger compartment better (don’t know about the Leaf). 淚流滿(mǎn)面的80%的加強鋼，我很懷疑Volt如果不堅持徹底的降成本的話(huà)，怎么才能賺錢(qián)，用了多少好的材料和新技術(shù)啊。 Third is that the Volt has two more airbags than the Leaf — the knee airbags for the driver and front passenger. These ensure the occupant doesn’t slide forward and under the dash during a crash. 好多安全氣囊啊…… Fourth and finally the battery housing in the Volt protects the passenger compartment in a way that the Leaf battery pack doesn’t. Running into a Volt from the front or the side is a big like running into the end of an I-beam. 電池的耐撞性其實(shí)是GM花了最多的時(shí)間和精力的，在EV1就使用的布置，GM花了第一筆10億美金的收獲之一吧。 
雖然我對IBM很有好感，但是這句話(huà)還是太不給面子了：“It was a risk on their part because they are a very old company, but they needed to do it different and they did” 從這篇文章里頭，可以獲取不少的信息； 1.Volt里頭有個(gè)100+的電子模塊 2.Volt里頭總的模塊包含1000W行代碼，09年的車(chē)大概600W，05年240W，也就是說(shuō)這車(chē)的軟件量非常大 3.原本預計開(kāi)發(fā)周期為5年，實(shí)際的周期為2年5個(gè)月，很大的一部分原因是通過(guò)引入了Unified Modeling Language (UML)，采用了從系統策略模型直接至軟件的方法（這個(gè)我聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)，不過(guò)完全不懂，有以前的xd是高手）。 4.測試步驟的簡(jiǎn)化，從600=>400，三位數的測試步驟已經(jīng)讓我無(wú)從想象了。 最后一個(gè)有趣的事情是，在生產(chǎn)Volt的工廠(chǎng)里頭，安裝了太陽(yáng)能的車(chē)棚，可以就近充電，挺有想法滴。
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