cost of ownership for the chevy volt

[Frank Lee]

Hey man, I love that hat, and the ladies can't get enough of it.

If you hate Volts so much, the answer is simple: don't buy one.

[ecomodded]

Well all things aside, meaning your hat, i think its obvious to say that I will not be buying a Volt. By all means please go out and buy one yourself ! but your not as stupid as your avatar denotes,I'm sure, so you will pass as will most. Lets put the blame where it belongs, and that's not with me its with the Volt, I am the bearer of bad news ! Next review I post I will write myself :-)

[jakobnev]

ecomodded -

If you are the sort of person who'd stop and charge for ten hours mid-trip, with a car that was specifically designed so that you don't have to do that! Then the Volt is not for you. The same way that if you were the sort of person that drove with the roof down in the rain and roof up in good weather, a convertible would not be for you.

[Ed-in-Maine]

Wow what a distorted article, at first I thought it was just straight out made up whole cloth for who knows what reason.

But then to find out that it's a real report by Mr Bolling on a business show just screams "follow the money". I've never heard of Mr Bolling but IMO he must be bought and paid for by some interested party, or he is simply a fool. So now my mind is spinning, who benefits in printing this type of distortion?

PS my business is investing, and I rarely and I mean rarely watch Fox business but if this article is an example of it's quality I haven't missed much.

[Simtronic]

The way I see it is the volt is overpriced like they want to recover development costs too quickly or use it to get you into the showroom to then hook you with another in their range but the more that are sold the quicker the price will come down. It is certainly a good car for those with short commutes, that don't often do long journeys, and haven't got a second car. Once a few more range extended electric cars are around the competition will bring the prices down too. Why look at the battery only range it is clearly a duel fuel car on longer journeys with the benefit of being an electric one with decent performance for short ones.

[Ryland]

Originally Posted by ecomodded

For a person who is retired or works close too home and does not go out a lot it may well be as you claim.

How much does the average person drive per year? 10,000 to 15,000 miles per year, at 15,000 miles per year that is 41 miles per day or 8 miles per day on gasoline, if you are driving that far per day chances are it's on the highway where you would use 81 gallons of fuel per year, but even if it's in town, getting lousy mileage it's only 91 gallons of fuel per year, compare that to the 468 gallons of fuel that someone getting 32mpg would otherwise use and that is of course assuming that you do all of that driving without being able to plug in, like I am able to do at work, and if you drive 10,000 miles per year then you average out to 27 miles per day of driving without using gasoline.

After all it can only travel 33 miles on its battery.
my point is the car sucks.

[Frank Lee]

I believe this is yet another of those situations where the facts have no bearing on the guy's opinion. Faux Noise viewers seem to have that a lot.

[ecomodded]

Originally Posted by Ryland

How much does the average person drive per year? 10,000 to 15,000 miles per year, at 15,000 miles per year that is 41 miles per day or 8 miles per day on gasoline, if you are driving that far per day chances are it's on the highway where you would use 81 gallons of fuel per year, but even if it's in town, getting lousy mileage it's only 91 gallons of fuel per year, compare that to the 468 gallons of fuel that someone getting 32mpg would otherwise use and that is of course assuming that you do all of that driving without being able to plug in, like I am able to do at work, and if you drive 10,000 miles per year then you average out to 27 miles per day of driving without using gasoline.

As i stated earlier in agreement with the fact that under ideal condition the Volt "Appears" to get good mileage, outside of the ideal condition AKA reality the cars mileage sucks, 32 city 36 hwy. Fail.
I hope we can agree that there is two sides to this coin. I do and agree that for the right individual the Volt will suffice if used as a electric short range (33mile) vehicle.
I just can not get past its gas motors economy. Compare the Volt to a diesel Jetta (similar size) with its 50+mpg fuel economy and the obvious stands out, the Volt is a fail.
and Frank buy one you will love it.. j/k

[payne171]

You want to compare the Volt's worst case scenario to a VW diesel's optimistic output. Reality is that if you compare new to new, a 2011 VW is high 30s under "normal" conditions. Yes, we can do a lot better, but your average driver won't. Or, if you prefer, compare ideal 2011 VW numbers (60s? 70?) to ideal Volt (up to 93 equivalent if all electric). If you prefer, Edmunds's True Cost to Own says a Volt's 5 year cost of ownership is about about $38,000. A base Jetta diesel auto is within a few options of being the same. A Passat is about the same as a Volt without the government tax credit. Is it worth it? From a purely economic standpoint, no. We could do a lot worse though.

[deathtrain]

what about the NYT. its more left leaning

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/bu...wait.html?_r=1

it comes down to like every thing on EM. To each their own. To me the volt should have been a Diesel.