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Originally Posted by srortega
They make that claim without telling you how much electricity they used to charge the car overnight. The car also is supposed to have a 40 mile electric range, so if the test is done within that 40 miles the true MPG of the 1.4litre gas generator is not going to be represented. What they need is to show the miles per kWh as well as the kWh of the generator. That would give us a more acurate representation of the cost to opperate this car.
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THEY CHANGED THEIR WEBSITE!!
http://www.chevrolet.com/pages/open/...future/volt.do
They used to list the estimated cost AND how many KWH it took to charge the car for aprox. 8 hours a full charge. The way the site reads NOW they have stricken that right from the home page for The Volt! ARGH!!!!!!!! As I recall it was a cost of 75 cents to $2.50 (USD) which all depended on one's cost for electricity. For example, in my home state electricity is bought via a co-op and were a coal state, so our electricity is fairly cheap in comparison to many other states. So it might cost people in my home state closer to 75 cents to charge the car, while people in New York might have to pay closer to $2.50 a charge, nevertheless they have stricken the all important Kilowatt Hour amount per charge from their site! - At the current price of gas in America, it currently is very close to being $2.50 a gallon WHERE I LIVE AT, so those numbers are lousy! Is Chevy trying to say the car can travel 40 miles for the price of a gallon of gas, but on electricity instead?? I get over 45MPG on my all gas Cobalt XFE! - Maybe that's why GM had those calculations removed from their home page for the Volt- It USED to be listed. Of course if gasoline goes up faster than the cost of electricity they may be on to something. I'll be darn if I can figure out their math. I support them, but they sure do make it hard for me too!
