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I was able on a couple of occasions to stretch the 45 mile all electric range to achieve a full 50 mile round trip, but that required me being alone in the car (vs.
The heavy traffic that I experienced every day was actually a benefit to me, as the car offered a fairly aggressive “one-pedal” regeneration mode that did a very good job of pushing kinetic energy back to the batteries and making the stop-go traffic creep a lot easier to deal with as I only needed to modulate the accelerator and not touch the brakes. I caught up on the way home as I was going downhill, and it was fairly easy to see with the car’s many displays and information flows how the two directions differed. One thing I learned about the commute was that the trip from home to my office was slightly uphill, as I used more than 50% of the battery capacity to do half the trip. Since I knew I’d never be stranded, the game was fun and I learned quite a bit about my commute and electric vehicles. As I got used to the car and how it operated, it became somewhat of a game to me to see how far I could get in the 50 mile round-trip commute between home and work before the gasoline engine kicked in. The car’s advertised 45 miles of all-electric range was pretty close to what I achieved in real-world mixed driving (some surface streets, some highway). The dealer was helpful, the deal was transparent, and the car came home with me.
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The salesperson assigned to sell Volts was a Volt owner himself so he was aware of the car’s special features and how to sell them. I obtained the car from a dealer that was one of the biggest sellers of Volts in the area.
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I was very interested in the car as a practical everyday driver that would be able to meet my daily commute needs with electricity (although I missed that mark by a hair, as we’ll see).Īnother consideration that swayed me was the very low lease payments available – of course, GM was subsidizing the car’s lease as a way to increase demand and put the cars in the hands of buyers. I was also able to attend conferences and hear from GM’s alternative fuel leaders about their vision for the Volt as the first in a series of electric drive vehicles that would demonstrate their technical leadership. This all resulted in a car that I liked very much, but events out of my control (literally) meant that it didn’t spend as long in my garage as I would have liked.Īs a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, I was able to hear directly from GM engineers at conferences about the car’s technically interesting drivetrain. The replacement for the Kia came about because of a confluence of factors: my interest in having a technically-advanced electric drive vehicle, the desire of GM to sell me said vehicle to get them out into the public, and my ability to sell the Kia without losing my shirt.
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