More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas

Re:More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @07:55AM (#10002773)

My wife just returned from a wedding in Maine. Flew to Boston, drove up in a Volt. Took 7 gallons of gas. 6 months between fillups is possibly an exaggeration - 3 days is more like it.

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Re:More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas by gfisher on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:00AM (#10003091)

I have had a Volt since 2012, and typically fill it up about once every 4 months.

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Re:More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas by ohitsdom on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @08:18AM (#10002858)

3 days? I make it 2 weeks in a 20 year old car. Sure, if you're doing a lot of driving it won't last 6 months. But for typical everyday use, I bet that's not an exaggeration (certainly not for my use).

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Re:More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas by edmccard on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:11AM (#10003138)

>I make it 2 weeks in a 20 year old car.

I used to go for two weeks between fill-ups in a '78 Buick but that was mostly becuase it had a 24-gallon tank (and I only drove about 20 miles a day).

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Re:More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas by yrro on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @08:40AM (#10002960)

Was that a round trip? That's 71 miles to the gallon if so. If not then it's 35 miles per gallon which sounds pretty dreadful.

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Re:More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas by dysfunction on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:49AM (#10003343)

How would you compute the MPG for that? You have no idea where in Maine they drove to. From Boston to the northernmost town in Maine is 475 miles, so that would be 68 MPG one way.

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Re:More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas by vpeters25 on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:16AM (#10003160)

I think that stat is for people who use the car for their daily commute recharging the batteries overnight.

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