40+ Miles Club

[csimoes]

Excellent writeup tboult! Thanks for sharing, it is always interesting to know the conditions others are driving under.

[tboult]

My wife laughs everytime I update my spreadsheet. Commenting about the new toy for her engineer. Had my volt for about 4 weeks, just over 600 miles. .

Do yo guys know about voltstat.net done by a gm-volt.com reader. Its very useful and free. With that I don't have to update my spreadsheet, I just download it (though I do keep one with comments and merge the two.

[WVhybrid]

HI Everyone!

I' m in my 2nd week of ownership. Got mine by sheer luck! I was driving back to the office - saw the Volt in the show room - pulled over immediately and bought it on the spot. I was later told that this car has been received by the dealer one hour before!

Great story, Charles! I hope you enjoy every one of the thousands of miles you have ahead of you.

WVhybrid
Red Volt #1715

[Mybatcar]

After 9.5 months I have finally exceeded 50 miles on a charge yesterday. I hit a new personal high of 52.1 ! On many occasions I achieved high 40's, or, was predicted to surpass 50 but arrived at location that was shorter than a 50 mile drive.
The morning temp was in the lower to mid 80's and all but 4 miles was interstate travel.

[tboult]

Congrats. Good to see you'e resisted the temptation to get the 50 by wandering around aimlessly on a high-40 day. I actually did it for my first 50+ day, then felt a little guilty for wasting the energy just to satisfy my ego, especially when 2 days later I did it when I really needed the 50+ miles.

[Deanzsyclone]

54 miles???

Just got home tonight and noticed my energy use screen showing that the last charge took me 54 miles, with 2 miles left on the battery, huh? I don't even think that's possible. Some sort of glitch? Next time I'll reset the trip meter to varify. Anybody run I to this error?

[RScott]

54 miles???

Just got home tonight and noticed my energy use screen showing that the last charge took me 54 miles, with 2 miles left on the battery, huh? I don't even think that's possible. Some sort of glitch? Next time I'll reset the trip meter to varify. Anybody run I to this error?

A couple possibilities:

[1] You did go 54 miles on one charge, and were very efficient,
[2] You didn't full charge the last time, so you got 54+ miles from a full battery and a partial recharge,
[3] You used "Mountain Mode" which skews things (it uses the gas engine to recharge the battery, and the miles you drive on the battery count as EV).

[Deanzsyclone]

A couple possibilities:

[1] You did go 54 miles on one charge, and were very efficient,
[2] You didn't full charge the last time, so you got 54+ miles from a full battery and a partial recharge,
[3] You used "Mountain Mode" which skews things (it uses the gas engine to recharge the battery, and the miles you drive on the battery count as EV).

I'm certain is was option 2 that gave me the false reading, realized it after my post. Thanks!

[Jmattioli]

Only my first week and already beat 40 using fan only since its cool outside. (42.1) Even my EV meter shows 41 miles now on full charge. Was 38 when i took delivery with full charge.

[dgruber]

One week with our new Volt and got 45 miles today in ECO climate mode and normal suburban driving, including a variety of speeds and up/down hills. It was a loop trip with a number of stops, so no net uphill or downhill. Very impressive.