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1. How would the volt manage a norther tier winter?

2. Will it pull my 5th Wheel trailer?

3. How does the price, including replacement cost of batteries, compare to similar fully gasoline engine automobiles in its class (not including the governments generous taxpayer subsidy)?

1. How would the volt manage a norther tier winter?
2. Will it pull my 5th Wheel trailer?
3. How does the price, including replacement cost of batteries, compare to similar fully gasoline engine automobiles in its class (not including the governments generous taxpayer subsidy)?

Let's take question 2 first. It's the easiest. No it's not designed to pull trailers. Not every vehicle is right for every person. But stay tuned on this. Remember Diesel Electrics pull heavy loads so there are future possibilities here.

The Battery is guaranteed for 100K miles or 8 years. By that time batteries will be cheaper, possibly much cheaper. And the 100K is the minimum.

Question 3 is is most interesting. This is where the Volt has a huge advantage over the Nissan Leaf (an all electric). The Gasoline engine will come on to produce heat on very cold (or hot days-ac) days. You can also program the Volt to heat up before leaving for work on a cold day. Plug in the Volt to charge overnight. Let's say you leave for work at 7:00AM. The electric heater can come on at say 6:30AM and heat up the car from the electric outlet. When you get into the vehicle at 7 the car is already warmed up.

1. How would the volt manage a northern tier winter?

One man in Canada mentioned having a heated and insulated garage to run his electric car. But when you think about the energy to heat a garage, that might defeat the savings of supposedly running a volt. The volt also has a gas motor, which you would need to run a little to warm it up when it was cold. I am not sure but it does sound complicated.

2. Will it pull my 5th wheel trailer?

I doubt it. The car uses an immense amount of added wait on the battery alone. Which is why I mentioned capacitors in an earlier post. Capacitors don’t carry weight from a complex network of power cells and chemical solutions within like a battery does.

3. How does the price, including replacement cost of batteries, compare to similar fully gasoline engine automobiles in its class?

I would say that a regular gasoline automobile would be cheaper to you upfront. This isn’t including the possible payments you would need to make on whatever loans you took out to buy the car. Gasoline cars were the key to making automobiles perhaps the most personally owned vehicles ever. Not even horse-drawn carts were as commonly owned as Henry Ford made the automobile. The Volt Price is over $40,000.00 as a starting price, compare that to just about every other car you see advertised such as in the paper or your local dealer.