As my dear mother used to say in mock dismay, "two seconds out of your young life".

The Volt battery has 1 billion temperature sensors and its own cooling and heating loop. If the temperature is not right for charging the Volt's computers will make sure the temperature becomes right...

Running the engine when it's very cold is not for heating the cabin. It's for heating the battery up to a temperature where it can work without harming the 8-10 year lifespan they've engineered. ...

The Volt will not leave you stranded if it's not shut down and the fob walks off: the drop-off-at-airport syndrome that you simulated before dinner. Your wife forgot to turn the car off as she...

I figure to have my Volt for ten years so a higher rate charger for a future car isn't on my list. The one thing I love about the Voltec charger, and this isn't trivial inside a garage lit only by...

We had a mild winter this year, my first with the Volt. Compared to 2011, month by month, by bills were lower this year. Realistically, I'm probably paying under $20/month charging only during cheap...

240V in my garage almost exclusively. Have used 240V free public chargers at White Marsh (park & ride lot), Towson (parking garage) and Locust Point (Harris Teeter grocery store) in and around...

I listened politely to the spiel for dealer options, politely declined all of them, paid for none of them, and then discovered that the word didn't make it down to the service department. So I got...

Very handsome car. I especially like the lower body cladding being painted to match the rest of the body.

Can you charge at 230 V, 15A with the supplied Voltec charger? Do they have such higher...

Yes. They indicate that all is well with the supply and with the charger. I just added the second sentence because "yes" seemed curt haha.

I miss the front passenger seat that I had in my Pontiac Vibe. The seat back folded forward and totally flat, just like a rear folding seat back. The distance from the dash board to the closed rear...

I haven't had to use the A/C yet in Maryland, but, as you walk back to your car, you can press and hold the unlock button on the key fob to roll down all four windows. Gives a chance for a lot of...

So much better than any ad that has run for the Volt so far. Gets across the point that the Volt is equal to a pure electric car initially, but doesn't stop when the battery range is reached. Good,...

I don't think they intend you to open the coolant tank. The batteries caught fire when coolant leaked into the electronics atop the battery when the crashed car and the test batteries were rolled...

In Maryland, they basically just plug the testing computer into the onboard diagnostic connector. The car's computer describes its measurements of the emissions control performance. We used to have...

I was offered all sorts of options. They were very gracious as I turned down all of them but nobody told the shop. Got home and realized that my car had wheel lock lug nuts and the anti-theft...

There was a post in the past day or two of an Ampera review. Inside was a pic of a right-hand-drive interior, the first I'd seen. On the center stack, they actually flipped the starter and parking...

If it's the anti-tamper coolant reservoir bracket, it may have been put into the car during assembly so as to be immediately available to the dealer for installation.

BTW, the day I went to pick...

Thanks for the tip. This would have helped no end earlier this winter when the car would alert me to possible road ice whenever it was below freezing. I couldn't get rid of the alert and get back...

Sure, put some in. You'll be wasting your money and increasing your personal cost of owning a Volt, but what the heck.

BTW, the use of premium gasoline allows the engine to run slightly more...