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There has to be a better way!
Cost to operate a Chevy Volt
Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money) test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.
For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.
Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles. It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.
The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked up what I pay for electricity.
I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh.
16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.
$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.
Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that gets only 32 mpg.
$3.59 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.11 per mile.
The gasoline powered car cost about $18,000 while the Volt costs $46,000.
So the Administration wants us to pay two and a half times as much for a car that costs more that 7 time as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.
REALLY?
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Just stop already.
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You are a poor combat mage substitute.
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We can all agree that the volt and ubama are a failure.
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The Chevy volt is a bad idea for so many actually good reasons, we don't need bad ones.
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Coworker just bought a new Chevy over the weekend. The dealership actually talked him out of buying the Volt, and into something less expensive.
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You people are just encouraging him to continue posting his emails.
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I made a thread about this like a year ago that explained why it sucked. It went over 100 in replies, maybe up to 200.. I forget but there were actually some people trying to defend it lol.
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/chevyvolt.asp
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So my CR-Z as a whole gets better mileage and cost much less.. (when looking at longer distances).
Funny.
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Also wtf is a 'Checy'?
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Jyiiga posted:
So my CR-Z as a whole gets better mileage and cost much less.. (when looking at longer distances).
Funny.
yep or you could buy 2 prius
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Dark_EternalFF posted:
Also wtf is a 'Checy'?
I think it's misspelled, should be Czechy.
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Chevya posted:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/chevyvolt.asp
I know, but you won't get as may responses if you include that plus you can't suck Combat into it.
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