It's ingenious and mine just hit 213,00 miles
It's an early model PHEV. It defaults to running off its 40 mile range battery. GM discovered 80% of US drivers drive less than 40 mi/day. It has an efficient ICE generator and a 9 gallon (premium only) tank. We have a 240 V charger at home that fully charges the battery in 4 hours. A full charge costs $1 where I live. I buy gas on road trips like this 800mi Santa Barbara trip. It gets 37 mph running on the generator. When I fill up I buy 5 or 6 gallons: a sip. The car tells me to change the oil every other year. I had to add windshield washer fluid and recently 4 oz of coolant for the high voltage system. That's it. The all wheel disc brakes are used in emergency stops or when the speed is below 10 mph. The rest of the time stopping is an act of regen: charging the high voltage system. On a hot summer day at a stop light, when all the muggle vehicles are emitting heat from every pore and running fans to cool their engines, volt sits cool as a cucumber, wasting no energy, making no noise, not warming the planet. Long mountain road descents can charge a highway full of EVs. $Free99. I love it, even though some twit riding in a Tesla had the huevos to say, "Volt, wow, that's stone age!". It costs nearly nothing to operate around home. I don't have to plug in on long trips. It uses gas sparingly on road trips. It doesn't stink the place up. It's never in the shop. Mine cost $8,500 used, with 45,000 miles. That's $.05/mi. How many trouble free miles do you need to get that cost per mile on a muggle vehicle at 10x my cost?
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