We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Many Volt owners with commutes of average length or less rarely have to worry about running out of fuel at all.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
This safety buffer is likely what allowed the car to switch back to battery power after it ran out of gas, Palmeri believes.Įither way, it certainly takes some doing to get completely stuck driving a Volt. That same margin seems to apply to the Volt's battery pack, which does not fully discharge even when the dashboard display reads empty.
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Most recent cars have fuel meters that are very conservative, in order to help ensure drivers never actually run out of fuel on the road. The Volt had traveled about 40 miles with its "low fuel" light on before deactivating its gasoline engine, he said. When the car ran out of gas, it flashed a message on the dashboard reading "engine power not available, add fuel."Īt that point it switched back to battery propulsion, but at reduced power and with no climate control, according to Palmeri. The 2013 Volt has an EPA-rated electric range of 38 miles, and a combined range of 380 miles on both electricity and gasoline. What we know and what’s next.īut once the gasoline ran out, the Volt ended up switching back to battery power for 2.4 miles, before losing propulsion completely.
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