Re:First Volt owner has driven 12K miles in 2 years, burned ...
by herge on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @02:52PM
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Well, if you care about the green house impact of his use of his car, it's pretty good.
Driving a regular car 12k miles will net you about 4.6 tons of CO2.
His 36 gallons of gas, plus his electricity consumption if we assume that he uses about 36 kwh/100 miles and that he lives in New Jersey (as per http://media.gm.com/media/intl/en/chevrolet/news.detail.html...), which does not just burn coal for electricity production, we can expect him to have emanated ~1/3 ton of CO2 with his Chevy Volt over that period.
Driving a regular car 12k miles will net you about 4.6 tons of CO2.
His 36 gallons of gas, plus his electricity consumption if we assume that he uses about 36 kwh/100 miles and that he lives in New Jersey (as per http://media.gm.com/media/intl/en/chevrolet/news.detail.html...), which does not just burn coal for electricity production, we can expect him to have emanated ~1/3 ton of CO2 with his Chevy Volt over that period.
So a good 15 times better.