Volt Fleet Gas Savings Rate: 15000 Gallons a day and 5.5 Million Gallons a Year

[jeffhre]

Between the Leaf and the Volt that's probably a billion dollars off the trade deficit!

Well, perhaps someday

[DonC]

Well, perhaps someday

OK. I'm off by 10X. LOL It's those pesky zeros. (Seemed too good to be true).

[freddmf]

<<Its a start but we've got a long way to go to oil independance. 15000 gallons equates to 357 barrels a day. We still import about 9,000,000 barrels a day. 15000 gallons a day also equates to $50,000 per day staying in the US economy.>>

....that create US jobs not only making cars but in the utility industry, electricians, and down the road a LOT of jobs in every aspect of our economy to build new, distribution, transmission, and power plants! The ripple affect will be stunning at some point if you keep 'energy' money in the US.

[ari_c]

The only negative effect will be for the roads. With less gasoline being sold, there will be less tax collected for federal, state, and local coffers. Of course this is a problem I would like to see. I wonder if this could lead to taxing based on miles driven, instead of gasoline used. Washington State added a $100/year tax for EVs.

Well I'm doing my part. I figure I am saving 2-3 gallons / day as I am averaging 60 EV miles / day.

[magnushawk]

GM could end all their commercials with the current estimated number. So every day it would go up.

That is a great idea. Have to give that a +1!

The only negative effect will be for the roads. With less gasoline being sold, there will be less tax collected for federal, state, and local coffers.

This isn't a problem now, but by the time it does become a problem it will have long since been fixed. Have no fear on this one.

[gieso]

I just thought of another cool counter we could have. Miles on Electric.

Just the Volt are now at a rate of 120 Million miles a year on Electric. Lets get it to a Billion.

GM could end all their commercials with the current estimated number. So every day it would go up.

They could also have a goal in Miles and make a big deal out of it. That could be a new positive marketing slogan.

I really like this idea. It is similar to what Apple just made a big deal about; their passing 25 billion apps downloaded. Apple got a lot of very positive press about this. Apple had a ticker on their website tracking the count up to 25 billion. Since OnStar has data from our Volts, they could easily put up a ticker updated daily reflecting the total EV miles driven by Volts. They could also calculate the gallons saved, tons of CO2 saved and even an estimate of dollars saved (cost of gas saved *current average gas price - KWh used * average KWh cost).

This could be really easily done with data already available and very powerful to explain to the masses how a Volt saves you money as well as being green, supporting the US economy, etc., etc., etc.

If this can't/won't be done my OnStar, maybe Mike could consider adding this to VoltStats.net.