gswitzclintmartinI'll be curious to find out how much your electric bill goes up. If I remember correctly the Volt has a 40 mile range (for electric only). I live 19 miles from work. So if I charged up everyday...how much would my electric bill be compared to gas? Nice car...I like it!We expect to pay around 1/3 the money per mile for electric miles. We hope for roughly 75 percent of our miles to be electric.Price is effected also by when you charge and how fast you can charge. There is 8 and 12 amp charging speeds at 110 as well as a 220 speed we haven't yet been able to try as it requires new hardware.The car can be scheduled to charge when rates are lowest, but this presumes you are able to charge quickly. If you have to charge all night, there is little benefit to scheduling the charge.I'll post our miles at first gas fill up. I know we charge as we go, but this should give us a sense of electric miles over total miles.My math suggests saving 1000 per year in powering the car is a conservative estimate.We paid 32K for the car and get 7.5K relief on taxes since we pay more than that in taxes. So, the car will end up costing 24.5K and we save 1K per year of ownership.
clintmartinI'll be curious to find out how much your electric bill goes up. If I remember correctly the Volt has a 40 mile range (for electric only). I live 19 miles from work. So if I charged up everyday...how much would my electric bill be compared to gas? Nice car...I like it!
craigbI wonder how much more fossil fuel will be used to create the electricity...
bitmanCan you get a sufficient amp in and out of it? That is ALL important.