Comments on: Official: Chevrolet Volt Battery Warranty is Eight Years/100,000 Miles

By: Dagwood55

Dagwood55 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:13:01 +0000

250 volts: From whence you came so shall you return. Once a camel jockey back to a camel jockey. In 20 years time, perhaps sooner, you’ll all be back to your Bedouin ways, fighting amongst yourselves for the worthless sand you’ll have left so enjoy it while it lasts. Heheheheh (Quote)

Not for the first time, I find myself thinking a "Report Abuse" button would be a good idea.

By: 250 volts

250 volts — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:00:12 +0000

From whence you came so shall you return. Once a camel jockey back to a camel jockey. In 20 years time, perhaps sooner, you'll all be back to your Bedouin ways, fighting amongst yourselves for the worthless sand you'll have left so enjoy it while it lasts. Heheheheh

Hashish Hussein al-Jihadi: This Volt battery won’t last and your dirty forty will yeild to our rich gasoline that the Volt still requires for any legitimate travel.Failure to drink our liquid gold will have dire consequences for you liberal americans.Our King will not sit idle while you toy with your gasoline addiction. You have been warned by the nation of Islam. Heed this warning or you shall perish.

By: Red HHR

Red HHR — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:44:10 +0000

James: Somebody call Red HHR and tell him to sell the Miata!

Anybody want to buy a Miata? It is from the first months production, April ’88.
First month of Volt production coming up. Maybe I will get one of those also (in 20 years;) ).

By: Gsned57

Gsned57 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:26:58 +0000

Kdawg, I remember that conversation and gave you a +1. Based on the IMO over engineering of the battery it may be hard to cause the battery to fail before 100,000 miles even if you want it to. I sure hope it has been over engineered. 200,000 miles and 20 miles EV range would be fine with me

kdawg: 49 kdawg Vote -1 Vote +1 kdawg Says Jul 14th, 2010 (10:12 pm) James: Wow, Hey Statik, please disregard the addition of that kdawg quote ( I actually gave it a -1), I must’ve not rechecked my post for errors since it was so short. I was agreeding with Jackson, not Kdawg’s quote, not sure how that got on there – Looks like I’m a bit rusty since I haven’t posted for awhile. RECHARGE! James Don’t bother w/the negatives, since it was more of an inside comment to Statik referring to a post several months ago where a few of us talked about the baked in battery costs. Statik had mentioned doing whatever he could to get a new battery before the warranty ran out since it had been suggested that the Volt’s price included (2) batteries. I was just curious if that was still his plan (w/either a Volt or a Leaf).

By: edvard

edvard — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:31:14 +0000

100,000 miles seems reasonable. Even though they are totally different batteries, Our Prius is now almost 9 years old with about 130,000 miles. It spent the first 7 years of its life in upstate New York in frigid sub-zero winters and has been out here in Cali for 2 years. So far it seems the battery has held up fine even though this was the first generation Prius with a few glitches that had yet to be worked out. Surely battery technology has gotten better to the point where the Volt battery will last a lot longer than 100,000 miles.