Good article. It is hard to
Good article. It is hard to change people's minds. The best way to promote electric cars is to have people test drive them. The Volt is a hoot to drive. It has incredible pick-up at speeds up to 50 mph. So quiet and very well built. It could easily have had a Cadillac name plate on it.
I know no one else with a Volt and except for a few questions at the local post office or market we talk to no one about it. My wife loves the car and drives it every day as do I. We have just past 12,000 miles and have used 60.7 gallons of gasoline. 200 mpg is a good thing. We have solar at our house and have not paid for electricity in four years. This is true even after purchasing the Volt. We have a charging station that the state of California paid for.
Two notes: GM claims that the use of premium gasoline is so that it does not go stale ( we put 5 gallons in about once a month). Also, one does not have to charge the Volt fully...we sometimes charge for an hour and off we go on short errands.