Chevrolet Volt owners continue to enjoy the return on their investment, saving what is estimated to be $1,370 in estimated fuel costs annually (based on $4 per gallon of premium fuel). Altogether, Volt owners have saved 5 million gallons of gasoline, AKA $21 million, AKA two supertankers of gasoline, thanks to over 100 million miles of pure electric driving.
Chevy says the average Volt owner fills up every month and a half, or 900 miles. But as the world is consuming more fossil fuel than ever before (darn you, China!), it’s not like the somebody else didn’t need all of that fossil fuel.
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put that in metric and its amaaaaaaaaaaazing!
160,934,400 km’s
8.94 light minutes
1.1 AU
Quite a distance actually. Glad the telemetry is publically available.
My first drive in a Volt sold me.
What got me out of my Prius and into my first domestically-built
new car in over 25 years was the sheer quality and refinement
of the engineering. As a car guy I knew Hybrid Synergy Drive
was flawed in several ways. For me, the goal was to save on
gas with our daily driver – esp. the car my wife uses for
running errands. But as a car guy, I hated giving up a sporty
drive, good handling dynamics and a solid feel – you gave these things
up in a Prius. Add to this a hybrid is better for long trips, but
on those short trips we make several times per day, it fails.
Your gas engine is cycling on and off, and warming up the
car when it doesn’t need to. The entire goal was to drive
electric – not on gas, but hybrids don’t do this enough at
all. Get in the Volt and it’s all-electric on a full charge or
half. It’s silent running in parking lots, cold starts, up
hills and when you punch it – This is what we want.
Driving a hybrid is work to get the mileage you want.
When you add the fact that the Volt feels so solid – like
a real sporty luxury car – and silent and smooth…
it spoils you for anything else. These are all things the
Prius never could ( and still can’t even with the plug-in )
achieve.
I’ll speak out as long as I can to encourage GM to
capitalize on it’s superior EREV tech in Volt. I
would easily trade my Toyota truck for a Voltec
Chevy! About the only thing that would convince
me to give up my Volt would be a 5 or 6 seat
model – possibly a CUV with Volt capability.
BEVs like Spark or Focus EV are niche vehicles-
second or third cars for short runs. Volt seriously
has the potential to own Ford and Toyota for
years to come. Bring down the price – increase
capability and knock ’em dead.
I wonder what the Prius’s have done for conservation and the world economy since they started showing up on the world’s roads? I’d wager one deuce of a lot more than the Volt, which I would never buy. Forty grand-plus car and 40-some miles and then gasoline? $1.50 a day to charge? Please give me a break.
You sound like a typical Prius owner. Yes, it has saved on fuel, but I wonder what the actual figures would be if all those Prius owners had driven a volt the same amount of miles. Volt would have saved MORE gas. You owners just can’t take anyone saying anything bad about those uncomfortable, hard riding cars. Wonder when the next toyota recall will be announced.
Toyota doesn’t care about saving gas. All they want is money from stupid Americans who buy their cars!
@ Raymondjram I sold my 2002 Prius and bought a 2010 Prius. I traded my 2010 Prius for my 2012 Volt. So, please know where I am coming from. I completely agree with the comments from James. Your statement about the lack of care of Toyota in saving gas is wrong. You can discover their true intent by reading about the origin of the Prius and the directive from Akihiro Wada: 100% improvement in fuel-economy over the Corolla. Now, I do agree that the bottom line is increasing sales, or as you put it getting the money 8>) All that aside, the Chevy Volt has become the direction that all car designs should follow in the coming years, until battery development and charging times make a BEV as easy to own and drive as the Volt. Kudos to the GM engineers and to GM management.
Now, why won’t GM management mqrket this beauty? What are they afraid of? Success???