With several thousand Chevrolet Volts on the road, the vehicle’s impact is growing. For instance, according to OnStar’s real-time data collected from Volts driven across the country, over 32.38 million miles have been covered using not a single drop of gasoline. That’s out of 54.3 million total miles, meaning nearly two-thirds of all that ground covered so far by Volt drivers were electric. According to the data, which continues to amount at this very second, the Chevy Volt has saved over 1.76 million gallons of fuel to-date.
For those wondering, Chevy’s fuel-saving formula is explained in the following:
To find out the fuel saved we need to calculate the miles per gallon; Miles per gallon =[Difference in Total Miles Driven in kms (current-previous) * 0.621/ Difference in lifetime fuel used *0.264]. Fuel Avoided = (Difference in Total Miles/ Official MPG for US passenger cars) — (difference in Total Miles/ Miles per gallon).
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This is really cool. And they said OnStar was bad…
So Onstar constantly monitors the usage of GM cars? Sounds like big brother is being kept busy!
And people pay for this type of surveillance.
In a way, yes. It is off-putting to know you’re broadcasting your driving habits to GM for analitical purposes.
However, this acculated telemetric data over time is only going to get sweeter. I calculated that the collective impact of all that Volt’s is that they’ve been operating electically 59.7126% of all of their entire opperating lives.
For me, the next step is to think about the impact the Volt or Voltec-like systems would have on a larger scale. Hypothetically, if all cars in the US had this, oil used in transportation would drop 60%, which is freakin’ nuts.
As I said before, all the US has to do now is make electricity as cheaply and as effiecently as possible, and then gas prices won’t matter to anyone.
Wake me when our planes, ships and plants adopt a similar method.
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LOL!! No wonder my back hurts. I have been sleeping for 134 years! =D
Make it at the price of a cruze rather than a Cadillac then it will sell very rapidly
Easier said than done.
Why don’t you get your own funds and build it yourself?
GM has done superb work, such that BMW (the “maximum” German brand) had to literally steal away the GM engineer who was in charge so they can copy the Volt and later build their own!
No other manufacturing company can do what GM did in three years and do it cheaper! So, be proud that the Volt is now the new “supercar” of the world, which has won thirteen of the best auto awards in its first year (a world record by itself!) and that it is American designed and American built! All of the Volt owners are all proud of their vehicles.
If you can’t afford it, bully for you. If you want the best, you have to pay for it. No one gets a 99 cent steak!