![]() That’s impressive no matter how you look at it. Stats on the Volt show that, on average, the car is driven as an EV two-thirds of the time, giving the fleet an average efficiency of nearly 110 miles per gallon. This is similar to how other Volt owners have used the car. Our car has 36,000 miles on the odometer and the running tally was 92 miles per gallon during the three year period when it was on lease. We charge the Volt more often, but not that much more than the Leaf.Īs noted, most miles on the Volt are EV miles. In practice, we drive our Leaf 50-60 miles before charging with 20-30 miles left on the range indicator. We driven the Leaf for two full years and I’ve written extensively about the experience. We are now a two EV family: Evie I (Leaf), Evie II (the Volt). With the Volt we can cruise up the drive way after running the battery to zero. He ran out of juice literally in our drive way and he couldn’t quite push his Mitsubishi iMiev up our drive. (We’re on Plugshare.) Unfortunately, in Rowell’s case our charge station is up a slight hill. ![]() Unless you’ve owned an EV, you don’t realize this dilemma. For example, John Rowell learned this the hard way once when he wanted to charge at our house. Obviously, you can’t do that in a BEV, or you end up pushing it. Unlike a typical battery electric vehicle (BEV), you can drive the Volt as an EV until the battery is exhausted, knowing that you can get to the next charge station on the gasoline engine. It has a real-world EV range of 38-40 miles before the engine kicks in. Most people drive the Chevy Volt as an EV. It’s one solid electric vehicle (EV) that also includes a range extending gasoline engine. True, that’s not long, but we’ve put nearly 1,000 miles on it and I would have to say that Bagdikian was right. We’ve now owned a 2013 Volt for three weeks.
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