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Featured Volt gen II - 106 mpge aer 53 miles, 42 mpg.

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by austingreen, Aug 3, 2015.

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  1. cycledrum

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    The other day, I made a trip from Union City, CA to Martinez and (after 15 minutes) back which is 95 miles r/t. A Leaf could not do that. I had no time to goof around, wait around charging even if there was some fast charger right there at RSG in Martinez.

    These days at 372 pennies a gallon, delta between 50 Prius and 42 Volt is a whopping 1.42 cents per mile. Let's say the g2 Volt copped out of EV at 50 miles. So, I would be spending 64 cents more on gas for those 45 miles than in a Prius or PiP (which would have been running on ICE within the first mile and a half away from my house).

    64 cents. Wow, that's 'big' money.
     
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    I don't get the question. Do you regularly drive 95 miles a day, but could charge at night? Which car do you like driving the prius or the volt (pip is probably not going to be the choice here). I don't know what you pay for electricity, but fuel is a little cheaper for the volt in that scenario but not much. 1.9 gallons of gas versus 1 gallon of gas and 17 kwh of electricity if you get epa on both cars. If you pay $0.15/kwh then you would spend $7.07 for gas in the prius, and $6.27 on gas and electricity in the volt. Not much of a difference in money. If you are using pg&e for power for your charging electricity your ghg will be slightly lower, but again not that much.

    Yes, not much money or ghg difference. In Massachusetts with cheaper gas and more expensive electricity, the prius will be a little cheaper and the volt will lose it's ghg advantage.
     
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    No questions. I could charge at night if I set it up. My regular commute is 30 miles round trip. I'm off work for a couple weeks and have been repairing our roof. I needed to go to Martinez to get 2 more bundes of shingles (our 3 tab asphalt shingles and color are not popular) to finish repair area of roof ASAP.

    If my one and only car was a Leaf, I would have had to spend time renting a car to make that 95 mile quick turn around trip. Unacceptable. I just would not have a single car with an 80 mile range. No.

    A gen2 Volt, I could make that 95 mile round trip, no problem. No inconvenience of renting another car. Plus, I could easily EV to and from work I suppose for the joy of EV driving. It's all personal preference car buying is and what one wants and can afford.

    I made the trip in my Prius and I have to say it does really well up over 70 MPH on highway / freeway. Sometimes I would hit 80 and have to conciously slow down.
     
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    i thought you were fixing the roof.:p
     
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