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Originally Posted by motorhead
No matter how people try to work numbers in the volts favor it's not a good purchase.
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A good purchase for who, exactly? Because that needs to be qualified before this conversation even has an *inkling* of validity.
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Originally Posted by motorhead
I hate to tell you but electric is going up also and who knows what kind of upkeep this car will require.
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I do! None more than a regular car. The battery is warranted to 8 years and 100,000 miles, and through testing and validation is shown to maintain something like 80% of its capacity after that time period. GM is also currently researching the potential of 'recycling' the batteries back to "almost new".
It's not nearly the voodoo some people seem to consider it.
And so is gas prices....at a great rate. Not only that, but prices are much more volatile.
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Originally Posted by motorhead
and I did use the volt's the maximum rating by figuring it at full electric which for me and most other folks across the land would never be able to do with it's very limited range on electric only.
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Actually...that'd be quite wrong. At least the last portion. Studies conducted at the beginning of the Volt program show that 78% or more of American's daily commute is no more than 40 miles. Since we all know that no car can satisfy 100% of consumers...I'd say this is a pretty good range of effectiveness.