As an owner of a Chevy Volt
As an owner of a Chevy Volt 2019.
Unscrupulous Dealers, Chevy has a problem with name and the biggest reason is the dealers they have selling their cars.
Cost of purchasing the Volt.
Not having trained mechanics to work on these cars.
Putting into the cars things that cost a monthly fee to use and making them a vital part of the car. Example not informing the people who purchase the car about the lack of a map gps in the car but a requirement of having a 35 dollar a month fee on top of a car payment for a 35,000 car. Or having to have a cell phone, and use of an antiquated program to access the map gps in the car. And having to plug in your phone to use the map gps which is actually a Google Map GPS program in your phone.
Lastly using faulty electronics in the car. The stuff you need has lots of problems. I have a problem getting the car out of park.
The idea of the volt is good and basic. I drive 3000 mile trips all the time and having a map GPS is very important in any car i own but I refuse to pay more for map GPS directions by having to purchase a cell phone and a contract to use it each month. Most are about 100 a month.
But it is needed in any car i own.
Volt gets about 50 miles on a charge and that charge changes each time it is charged sometimes 47 miles sometimes 60 miles on a charge even saw 63 miles one time on the dash for the number of miles i could go. But the excess over 53 miles is bull shit. It quickly burns off within a mile or so. When departing my home.
So we have a car with a electric motor and we have a engine in the car to charge the battery's and run the car with electric battery runs out. Simple straight forward!
Not with the electronics in the car now. Many computers run the car. Not a good thing.
Chevy should focus on making a basic model for those who want to keep the environment safe and allow us to have enough oxygen to breath and to quietly live out our senior years. But this 35,000 for a LT model is really sad.
The car is viable and will sell because it saves money and trips to the smelly gas station all the time and I am lucky because most places i go are less than 53 miles round trip. And if i can get the things in my car that are wrong with it fixed this will be a good car. But I have wanted to return it since i got it. But GM will not comply. They are mad because i want my money back because the car was not doing what it was suppose to do.