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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
It's still the best car in this segment. The Leaf won't use gas at all but will leave you stranded at the end of a 100 mile trip, and remember how fickle EV ranges are. You could think that you have enough battery power for a 100 mile round trip but end up stuck 20 miles from home when outside conditions reduce the total EV range to 80 miles. The Volt doesn't have that problem because the Volt isn't a completely half-assed car, as is the Leaf.
So did GM kinda renege on the whole "Solely powered by electricity thing?" Yeah, sorta. Depends on how you look at it. The Volt will still be powered by electricity 99% of the time. If you need to pass someone on the highway, then the ICE will kick in and help out, which is the more efficient solution than straining the battery/electric motors. Once that's over and done with and you're back to cruising at 70 MPH or below, then you're running on electricity only again.
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I don't understand why people don't "get" the whole "battery only = BAD IDEA" concept... I mean we have all been using Cellphones and Laptops daily for years and we all have run into the occasion where we do the same thing we did every day before but at the end of the day we go to use the thing and it's flashing that battery warning at you and you're praying it lasts long enough to get done what you needed to do or you are plugging it in. Batteries don't behave the same way repeatedly when conditions change, and there's nothing saying that a EV is going to be any different in this regard. Plenty of people are going to get stranded by these things. One day someone else will invent an EV with an ICE and claim that they solved the problem, and perhaps the Volt will be long gone by then and nobody will correct the new "inventor" for this lie.