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Originally Posted by DevilKnightFalcon
http://jalopnik.com/5661051/how-gm-l...e-electric-car
http://jalopnik.com/5661817/chevy-vo...and-statistics
I would like to believe that the Volt is technically superior however the bottom line is it is still just a hybrid and if these early rumors and reports are true that the car is only getting around 40mpg in the city then it is not even a very good hybrid. With that said I am waiting on official reviews before making final judgement but honestly if this car gets anything less than 80mpg I will be quite disappointed given all the hype (and claimed 230mpg)
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Again. the Volt is a bit of a quandry due to it's multi mode of operations.
For example. My round trip to and from work is right at 50 miles.
So I could not make my commute with no gas. I'd have to get gas at some point. but only for 10 miles a day. the other 40 are from the batteries.
so what would my MPG be... closer to 230 than 80 I'm sure.
If you never charge the batteries and only use the ICE, then yes. it is marginal at best.
The EPA, estimated the volt's mpg at 230, not GM. And they had to guess at what the average consumer's utilization of both the ICE and pure battery power would be in order to estimate the MPG.