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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
My guess is that most people will plug the car in the second they get home at 6:00PM and that's still in peak hours. Everyone will be running their lights and playstations and big-screen TVs at the same time.
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I guess they didn't get it quite right either. There should be a mode to recharge the battery (from the gas engine) to a level that you can drive the car with if the battery goes too low. Unless they can drive the car purely off the generator, this seems like a good idea.
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The Volt can run as far you want with a "dead" battery. You drive for 40 miles on pure electric power and then the gas engine kicks on. you can drive on forever as long as you keep adding gas. If you wanted you could drive the Volt everyday without plugging it in.
The point of the Volt is to have a car that run in electric mode for the majority of time that most people use a car, driving back and forth to work, and then plug it in at night. But when you need to take a cross country trip you don't need a second a car because it will then use the gas engine to keep going.