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The Volt is rated 37mpg highway (gasoline) and 36mpg equivalent (electric). To get only 30mpg it must have been driven hard, as has been said. But then to use a slow speed like 60mph for your estimate of driving times seems like a lazy way to make calculating hours of travel time easier, without realizing that if the car had actually been driven at 60mph on the highway it would likely have pulled about 40mpg. Nothing about the story is accurate, except that the car is made by Chevy, is called a Volt, and costs the too high $40K.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
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