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.
A big hindrance is the recharge outlet. That will cost another pretty penny for most owners.
What are you talking about?
I plug it into a wall outlet.
Should be interesting to re-do that energy consumption analysis you did a couple of months ago now that you have the Volt.
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.
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.
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.
