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Old 11-04-2011, 01:00 PM   #30 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by wainair View Post
There was much hype about range anxiety with the Leaf but there is another anxiety you don't hear much about that is rampant in the Volt community. It's called Gas Anxiety. That's when your driving your Volt and you find yourself going out of your way, doing all you can, to not burn gas. Sneaking your charge cord into unsecured grounded plugs for a kilometer or two of juice. Trying to eek out that last EV mile by not using your brakes and only using the aggressive regenerative braking of Low. I suffer from it a quite a bit, some have it more than others. It's a burden every Volt owner feels at one time or another! LOL
lol I know exactly how you feel. I have a plugin kit on my Prius and feel the same... Its as though I feel the hand of defeat as my engine kicks on when I didn't expect it to.
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