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Originally Posted by straight5
I drive 58 miles a day, Monday - Friday. About 80% of the drive is highway or interstate, and very few red lights. There is no charging station at work. I'd been wondering if I could stretch the range on a 2011 - 2013 volt that far, but it doesn't sound like I could.
In the volt, does the engine run only when you get down to a predetermined state of charge, or do you have some control?
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The car will simply run on gas once you run out of EV.
If you air your tires up, have 50+ degree weather, leave climate control off and keep your highway speeds low you should easily hit 50 miles on electric.
That's 8 miles of gas which should be less than a quarter gallon of fuel.
If you have 80+ weather, idle the car plugged in 10 minutes, leave all accessories and lights off, take surface streets so you can keep speeds below 35mph, use all hypermiling techniques, keep your kwhr/mile above 6 miles per kwhr (2013+ kw gage helps), keep tires above 50psi, accelerate slowly using 20kw or less
And you should exceed 60 miles ev.
On a 2013 you can command gas use any time using hold mode
