That's awesome! I'm curious to see what they're going to cook up for next year's model.
Do you feel that it's slow? I've read reviews that said it's a slower car, but my buddy who has one says it's just fine.
we love our 2013 volt. no range anxity and running on mostly electric. used 2 gallons to go from boulder to vail when we used to use about 6. and about 1.5 gal on the way down. once we have more stats ill let you guys know.
That's awesome! I'm curious to see what they're going to cook up for next year's model.
Do you feel that it's slow? I've read reviews that said it's a slower car, but my buddy who has one says it's just fine.
Ironically we had electric trams all the way back in 1880. What's old is new again.
Our 2011 doesn't feel slow at all. The power comes on smooth and linear. In sport mode it comes on even quicker. It really doesn't drive like any other car.
You should take a test drive. Even if you don't ever plan on getting a Volt, you should do it just to see what it is like to drive an electric car. It really is a revelation zipping around without all the "sound and fury" of an internal combustion engine. Just make sure it the batter has a charge, or you will hear the onboard generator running, which takes away the fun of running silent.
What would be nice, and I don't know if the Volt does this, is if you set the GPS to someplace farther than the on battery range, it works in hybrid mode and doesn't go into all electric right away, thus saving you some battery when you get there.
I took out a lease on a 2014 Volt exactly a month ago. My normal commute is about 20 miles daily. A few times I exceeded the 40-miles battery range. This past month I put on about 900 miles and used 6.9 gallons of gas (3 gal left) according to the onboard computer. This put me at around 130mpg. I havent fill up the gas yet as Im still on the original tank from the dealer.
I was one-year into my Acura ILX lease and traded it in to a chevy dealer at a wash as trade-in was same as pay-off. The monthly payment on the volt is about $8 more than the ILX. The ILXs onboard computer shows about 23mpg.
The Volt was $520 drive-off and $273 a month after tax. I applied for the $1500 California rebate for leasing an EV and was approved. So the state is paying me about $1000 to lease the volt for 3 years plus additional gas savings compared to my last car.
Driving it has been a blast. Off-the-line acceleration is quicker than what most people probably expect from a hybrid with the 270 ft/lb of torque from a dead stop.
yes, the volt is acutally quite quick off the line. and I have no trouble passing people at 80 on the highway! we traded in at 05 outback and also have a seirra 1/2ton truck.
we really love ours. got a full size adarondak chair in the back once, and a med. size vanity cabinet another time. It really has a lot of usable space with the seats folded down. i actually love the buckets in back. i cant remember the last time i had 5 people in a car anyway, and the back seats w/arm rest and such are way more comfertble than a bench.
we figure right now we are saving about 150$ a month in gas, and it will be around $300 (about the payment) when i start my new job in a few months. I will have a 60 mile commute and it will save heaps over my truck.
Lexus has a pretty good anti-EV, pro-Hybrid ad:
http://green.autoblog.com/2014/09/09/lexus-attacks-evs-again-in-new-ad/
Well, they're not wrong...
It's weird Toyota is so anti-EV considering they still used the Rav4 EV to boost cafe standards (however you'd word that):
http://www.toyota.com/rav4ev/
Surprised Kaido hasn't posted about this yet: Electric Soul has a price. Given his love for both electric cars and the Kia Soul, I would have guessed he'd be all over this one! http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/11/kia-soul-ev-pricing/ $34k, not awful. And the lines look better than the previous Souls IMO.
LOL He did on 9/11.