Review: Chevy Volt -- electrifying

Susan Carpenter test-drives the Chevy Volt. She says GM has succeeded in making an outside-the-box electric vehicle that's alluring almost any way you look at it, including under the hood.
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[ra5928]

Got my notice from GM & NHTSA. No recall necessary. However, because of all the negative crap coming from Faux News viewers, GM upgrade the cage surrounding the battery. It is optional to upgrade. However, the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety (which gave the Volt a 5 star rating after the 1 fire), says the ins. rates for upgraded cars have to be less than those not. My insurance rate will rise if I don't get it. It's free. It's only 1 day. Guess I'll get it.

[WDPlumbing]

@xBloodfatherx Where I live diesel odly is hard to find in our county, even in Los Angelos so we tend to stay away from diesel cars because of the difficulty of finding fuel at stations. But we do have it, just hard to find em. Especially while out of your town and you don't know the are, and why the hell is it soooo expensive over regular gas when it doesn't need to be?? that's bullshit.

[WDPlumbing]

@xBloodfatherx Nahhh just media exaggeration, ask an owner of one, no recall. Don't you just love how the media has to get viewers by exaggerating an issue, sucks I know.

[SwPiotrek]

@xBloodfatherx 50% cars in europe has diesel engines.

[xBloodfatherx]

did anyone hear about the recall for this car. you could posibly die from the car exploding. i dont remember why but i think it was like battery overload is likely to happen

[xBloodfatherx]

@SwPiotrek car corporates should just change to diesel. vw does it for their cars. and i mean like every car and truck. we have plenty of coal for 200 years or something. and diesel is much more eficient and better for environment.

[WDPlumbing]

@1MeanMike I'b betting you mean 1000 miles without plugging in? if so, maybe around 40mpg or 50, but of course not plugging it in at night would just be wasting the technology that you bought.

[BowHunt1229]

@somerandomvideo .....all gas nowadays has 10% ethanol......

[somerandomvideo]

@BowHunt1229

Volt's engine is premium only. No Ethanol for this!

[MrEnergyCzar]

@1MeanMike Half my driving is on the highway, 97% is in electric mode because I only drive 40 miles a day.... If you never charged it, and only purposely used gas, the EPA rated it 37 mpg which people get.