I commute 70 miles a day, so my savings were greatly diminished. The Volt is best suited for those who travel 40 miles or less a day, which Chevy folks says is nearly 80 percent of us. The savings improve if you do the right kind of driving. What a bargain! If you spring for a 220-volt charger, rather than the 110, you can charge the Volt in four hours instead of 11. A 10-hour charge bought me 32 miles - for around a buck-and-a-half. With a garage, of course, you could leave the cord plugged in and ready to insert. Oops - don't forget to unlock the car first: A theft alarm goes off if you remove the nozzle from the port without unlocking. With no garage space left for a car, I found it a bit of a nuisance going to the trunk, unraveling the cord, plugging into the outdoor outlet and then inserting the nozzle into the port at the left front of the car.Īnd, in the morning, unplug, rewrap and put it back in the trunk. One could get very comfortable with the Volt, providing one can get comfortable with plugging in the dang thing every night in order to up your mileage figures. Voila! An electric car that acts like a regular car. That's a 1.4-liter gas-driven engine/generator so the electric motor can continue driving the wheels. That's because the much-anticipated Volt removes all the guesswork: Once the charged up lithium-ion battery pack poops out - after 30 miles or so - the Volt's "range extender" takes over. Now, just like that, the new 2011 Chevy Volt has pulled the plug on all this talk. How far can I make it without another plug-in? And how many miles do I gain from the recharge? Seems like yesterday - well, it was only earlier this year - that the expression "range anxiety" slipped into our lexicon when it came to discussing these newfangled, plug-in electric vehicles.
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