two ways to store 25 to 40 miles of energy.
Posted on 03/09/2012 8:49:13 AM PST by jazusamo
Did I read the product review correctly? 30 miles in the winter eats an entire battery charge?
I agree. We don’t put the miles on we used to but we kept a Camry for 11 years and had 140,000 or so miles on it, a very good car. Our granddaughter has it now and it’s doing just fine, nothing major in repairs and we have a new one.
GM has already halted production of the Volt.
Let’s see, average energy cost of 8¢ per mile. My 2007 Sonata has averaged about 26 mpg thus far. At $3.69 per gallon, that puts fuel at @14¢ per file.
All other variables being equal (which they most certainly are not) the Dolt comes out $6,000 ahead in 100k miles. Well below the replacement cost of the battery alone. Which is not proven to go 100k, yet.
My Sonata cost about $20K (including the full 100K ten year warranty). Repair/maintenance costs have been almost negligible. I have driven the car on long trips over half the US, in comfort. Do that in a Dolt.
The financial numbers on this car are so bad that it makes a damning statement on the education and reasoning levels of so many Americans that they swallow this “crapload” of lies. The disgusting ignorance of the average American is why (though I will never stop fighting the left) I believe we conservatives are fighting a losing battle.
When I was 10 years old I had a grasp of math that would have made me LOL at a Volt owner. And obviously I was ahead of the current occupant of the WH, and a good percentage of the congress.
Well at least the GM engineers know what the heck they're doing, now put the same engineers on a different project.
I was given a Cruze for a rental car during a recent bidness trip and I was pretty impressed by its quality of materials and workmanship. I can’t see how anyone willing to buy a Chevy would spend the $20K premium to buy a Volt instead of a Cruze. I wouldn’t buy any GM car, however. Not now.
My wife's 1999 Camry just rolled over 100,000 a couple of months ago. We've had it for 9 years and put 70k on it. I told her that I hopes she still likes it because I see no reason to get rid of it. The next car we get to replace either hers or mine will be another Camry.
two ways to store 25 to 40 miles of energy.
I think we just found a new name for this vehicle: the “Chevy Crapload.”
“These guys at Government Motors just continue to outdo themselves.”
It’s the natural outcome of Party Propaganda in the same vein as Baghdad Bob, China, and Russia.
They have to pump out the crapfest for the leadership, even if they don’t believe it themselves.
If only that battery had a charge and someone poked a small hole in it while they were standing there.
“Breathe deeply boys and girls! That’s what your customers will be breathing while waiting for EMS to get them out of the car.”
I don't know if you have seen Eric Boling on the Fox News Channel, but he drove a Volt for a week at GM's invitation because he was so critical of them. He reported that he only got 18 miles on a full charge everyday he drove it. He said he used the heater a little bit and listened to the radio. He said it ran out of juice everyday in the Holland Tunnel on his way home, but he did say it switched over to gas flawlessly. He said he would buy one of the cars if they jerked out the batteries and electics and put in a small Four cylinder gas engine and conventional drive train. Gm won't though, cause they are run by the goons and Obama.
2000 Jetta TDI automatic with 275,000 miles. Still averages 40 mpg. Great little car.
I’d take one if they paid me for taking it off their hands...
Let's do it mathematically: ROI=SUX...
the infowarrior
Yup - that's what's wrong with the 'Volt' in a nutshell. It's government made, government designed, at space shuttle prices.
To wit - Endeavour cost us 150 billion dollars to build, it was launched 25 times at an average cost of two billion per trip. Total cost of building and using, 250 billion dollars.
NASA has no competitors - they are now nearly out of business - thanks to this president - that wants to provide us with cars that have space shuttle-like operating prices - perhaps we will soon see Government Motors going away again.
Democrats in your photo of battery and gas can:(left-right) unknown female, Rep. Sander Levin D-MI, Senator Carl Levin D-MI, Sec. Transportation Cho, unk. male (probably GM CEO, Jennifer Granholm Former Governor D-MI, Rep. John Dingell D-MI,unk male, unk. male
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