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Published on May 5, 2011 By Draginol In Car Reviews

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After years of waiting, I’ve gotten the Chevy Volt.

I’ll be doing a more thorough review shortly after I’ve had more time to evaluate it.


Comments
on May 05, 2011

A big hindrance is the recharge outlet.  That will cost another pretty penny for most owners.

on May 07, 2011

What are you talking about?

I plug it into a wall outlet.

on May 07, 2011

Should be interesting to re-do that energy consumption analysis you did a couple of months ago now that you have the Volt.

on May 09, 2011

Frogboy
What are you talking about?

I plug it into a wall outlet.

Your house is not 30 years old either.  It would require a panel upgrade for me, and I am not going to fork out an extra $2-3k for one.

on May 10, 2011

Your house doesn't have 110 volt outlets? It's a standard plug. It's nothing fancy. You just plug it into the wall, even in a 30 year old house.

on May 10, 2011

YMMV, and since I do not have one (nor the inclination to buy one), I can only assume that the hype and stories were erroneous.  I was basing my comments on this (from the horses mouth I would assume) and this

on May 23, 2011

Dr Guy


YMMV, and since I do not have one (nor the inclination to buy one), I can only assume that the hype and stories were erroneous.  I was basing my comments on this (from the horses mouth I would assume) and this

Last paragraph in your link "from the horses mouth"

The 240-v charger is optional as the Volt can be recharged using the standard 120-v wall socket charger that comes with the car.  This would take about ten hours.

The optional charger described in the link would charge a depleted battery in about 4 hours.