![]() ![]() The spacious four-door hatchback will go on sale in 2017. The car will travel 200 miles between charges and sell in the low $30,000 range, after government incentives, GM executives said. The engine is inefficient while warming up. As in, you made most of your trip on battery and just used gas for the last couple of miles. It will be less if your recent gas driving was inefficient, which it would be for short trips, for example. “The 53 miles of all-electric range could make a lot of people very happy.”Ĭhevy parent General Motors announced this year that it was developing an all-electric plug-in car, to be called the Bolt. When my 2013 is full, it usually shows a gas range around 285-300. “This will certainly help sales,” O’Dell said. The combination of a longer range and a lower price should mean better sales, said John O’Dell, fuel efficiency specialist at the online car-buying site . Based on 45 highway, 55 city driving, 15,000 annual miles and current fuel prices. The Chevy Volt is the exception with its 53 miles of EPA range. Sales of the current model were just over 1,300 units in July. That could boost sales for the admired but not wildly popular plug-in. That’s up from an estimated 380 miles on the 2015 model.Ĭhevrolet previously announced that the 2016 Volt also would sell for less than the 2015 car, with a starting MSRP of about $33,170, before federal and state tax credits that can reduce the cost of the vehicle by as much as $9,000. ![]() With a full battery and a full tank of gas, the Volt will have a range of 420 miles, Chevy said. “This means that the average Volt owner may expect to travel well over 1,000 miles between gas fill-ups, if they charge regularly,” the company said. The Chevy Volt is a hybrid electric plug-in vehicle that is EPA-rated of either 38 or 53 miles of all electric range when new. The company said in making the announcement that many Volt owners will be able to use the vehicle for 90% of their daily driving and can expect to drive enormous distances between visits to the gas station if they consistently recharge their vehicles between trips. Ability to switch to gas-power when needed for longer trips Federal tax credit between 25 as well as city and state tax credits The Chevy Volt's all-electric range is more than. In total, the new Volt will be able to achieve a miles-per-gallon-equivalent rating of 106, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It takes about 15 minutes to put 14 estimated electric miles of power into the battery and uses about 0.36 gallons of gas to do it. Chevrolet estimates that the small four-door, four-person vehicle also will get 42 miles per gallon fuel economy on the highway under gas power alone. Be aware that you can also switch the Volt’s driving mode from Normal to Mountain Mode to partially recharge a depleted battery, and you can do this while driving or while parked. ![]()
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