You can buy a Toyota Corolla and you would pay much less money than the volt and it gets good gas mileage.
Your cost per mile in a 4 year period will be lower with the Corolla.
That's misleading. If my commute is under 40 miles or so that's zero gas on a day to day basis. Plus, in CA you get HOV lane access so that saves some commute time too.You can buy a Toyota Corolla and you would pay much less money than the volt and it gets good gas mileage.
Your cost per mile in a 4 year period will be lower with the Corolla.
That's misleading. If my commute is under 40 miles or so that's zero gas on a day to day basis. Plus, in CA you get HOV lane access so that saves some commute time too.
My commute is 60 miles round trip. Even if I can't charge at work I'll still use less than a gallon a day.
Glad to see they are getting off the premium fuel requirement-to the class of potential purchasers (like me) that was really a turn off.
Range anxiety is still a killer though. This would never do for us as my daily driver, perhaps as my wife's car if the price keeps dropping like it has been.
IMO electric cars will never become mainstream until you get at least an honest 150 mile range.
You can buy a Toyota Corolla and you would pay much less money than the volt and it gets good gas mileage.
Your cost per mile in a 4 year period will be lower with the Corolla.
But what happens when I want to drive to Vegas or San Francisco? Or if I'm sitting in traffic or run some errands after work. Range anxiety sucks.
I still don't see how you can visit a Chevy dealer, compare the Cruze and the Volt, and then buy the Volt.
Unless it's just that you want to be trendy and the Volt is cool.
With the price of gasoline now well under $3 a gallon, it makes the economic justification much harder than it already was, imo.
Too much silver plastic...it looks cheap!
Fixed that for you.
how so? even if we use the msrp of about 35...
35k purchase
- 7.5 tax credit ( assuming you make enough to get it)
=26.5k
if you use 40miles of range per day with a gas price of 3 dollars a gallon in a car that gets 30 mpg you will save 117 per month. i'll take off the 17 for electricity.
a corolla is about 20k new. ( with less features than a volt)
so that's around 5 years payback.
plus the cool factor, and the fact you don't have to take the time to get gas nearly as often.
We bought one because it will save me driving my truck to work at 15 mpg. We use the truck a lot for projects, ski trips in the mountains, camping, off road travel and such. our payback for my 50 mile commute is very short, saving something like 300 a month in fuel. after the cash down on it, we are saving nearly what we pay per month, making it a very cheap car to own in our particular situation.
we avg around 40 on the highway going 80 mph in the volt.
cost justifications on new cars are stupid anyway, a used car will always win, sometimes you just want something new and fun.
the first thing we did was plasti-dig the silver grill on ours. looks much better.