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Old 02-12-2015, 04:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Greetings from Midland Michigan and -15F wind chills...can't stay warm and neither can my "new" Volt!

I've been driving a 2010 Jetta TDI 6spd manual on snow tires netting 44mpg avg, on LLR summers netting 55 avg, record tank 62.3mpg. Hat tip to my brother Weather Spotter and his AeroTrix for teaching me the Hypermilling ways. I've had the TDI for 15 months and 33k miles and am getting rid of it do to intermitent electrical issues. Just traded it in on a 2012 Volt.. excited for electric driving, and weirded out not having a manual trans

My normal commute is 21.2 miles each way to work 5-6 days a week. I can trickle charge at work, but I live in an appartment complex with no outlets... so my goal is to run all electric except when the volt wastes fuel to warm the ICE. My first trip home last night was on a partial charge with range estimating 28 miles... made it 39.0 in sub zero degree wind chills.

Here's to running electric,
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Old 02-12-2015, 08:35 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Nice! There are some good deals on used Volts out there. It's pretty crazy to think of getting a $35k car for half off.
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Old 02-12-2015, 10:04 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 02-12-2015, 10:53 PM   #4 (permalink)
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$45500 msrp, picked it up for $16,500!
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Thanks for joining. There aren't many Volts in the Garage and I'd like to know more about them. The Volt and the upcoming Bolt may be sufficient to bring me back to American cars, when I'm back in the market for a new set of wheels.
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Old 02-14-2015, 07:05 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I'm looking to add my fuel economy to the garage, however I only see a spot for gas or kWh but not both as I need for the volt... Any ideas?
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I'm looking to add my fuel economy to the garage, however I only see a spot for gas or kWh but not both as I need for the volt... Any ideas?
Convert your kWh to gallonsUS by dividing by 34.04 and add it to your gas gallons to log MPG. Don't be one of "those" Volt drivers that totally disregards the electricity they are using and makes claims of 150-300 MPG. You will probably only see 36-40 MPG on gas.
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Old 02-17-2015, 08:01 PM   #8 (permalink)
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