1 Month with the Chevy Volt
Today has been about month since we brought home the 2011 Volt. We have put over 400 miles on it. Only using the range extender once for about 7 miles. The one time we used the range extender we were finally able to see how far the car would actually go on a charge. Not just the predicted mileage. Keep in mind we live in the Appalachian mountains. The roads are very up and down and never straight. And on this run there were many sections of 55 MPH and we drove in sport mode (We always drive in sport mode). And well it included a foot to the floor acceleration run from a stop light to 55 mph. I'm sure that hurt the range. We weren't seeing how far we could stretch the range. We were just driving it like we would drive a car. Anyway we got 42.3 miles on battery power alone. Which seems right in the neighborhood of what was predicted for the car when it was new. For a 7 year old car with a 125K miles I'...