If only the ELR didn’t have a price that was within spitting range of a Tesla Model S. As amazing looking a car that was, its hard to justify paying $75k for a pretty 2 door Volt. GM screwed that up royally

I guess when I said dropped the ball, I meant that GM could’ve had a slew of Voltec powered PHEV vehicles back in the early 2010's and public adoption of PHEVs and subsequently BEVs would have been a lot sooner than now. For reference, a 2020 Prius plug-in still can only do 25 miles of EV range while a 1st Gen Volt…

Man, GM REALLY dropped the ball on this one. They’ve had the Plug-in Voltec drive train (Chevy Volt drive train) on the road since 2010 and they never bothered to put it into a CUV or a Cross over?! Or even just develop it properly for their trucks/SUVs. Imagine the money they’d be printing and the nice CAFE numbers…

It gets 35-40 MPG has. But if you drive it nicely, like I do, even on E50 blend, it gets 42 MPG on the highway consistently!

So turns out that after 400k miles (around 460k miles I believe), Erick Belmar (the 477k mile volt owner) hit a 18-wheeler tire on the highway going around 62 miles an hour TWICE (on separate occasions) and that messed up the underside of his Volt bad! The sub-par Chevy dealership charged him a bunch to fix the…

Dang, that sucks! I haven’t seen his feed recently although his Volt Stats page was showing something weird about his EV usage. Wonder what happened

You can also hook up a 1500W inverter in the trunk of the 1st Gen Volt and even deliver the Pizzas Hot! Or Have your own personal oven in there to “snack” a little. There’s a guy in Ohio with a 2012 1st Gen with 477k miles and still counting, no battery degradation that he can detect. These will outlive cockroaches

The Dirty South is where its at! The 4BT is a heavy beast but if you can source the parts for a reasonable price and it cuts down your work then that’s the way to go!

Cummins R2.8Cummins makes a 4- cylinder diesel crate motor called the R2.8 Repower, that will fit the bill better than a 4BT AND be emissions legal!

Actually, that payload capacity would be great for a real heavy duty camper like a smaller EarthRoamer or something similar!

I think that the whole story is a bit different. The MOST that panel could put out is 100W-150W Max at peak sunlight. Over 12 hours that’s MAYBE just over 1kWh. So at most 4 miles of range on a fully sunny day.

That’s used Dodge Viper money! CP!

NP for $5,900:

So a 2010 Chevy Volt with less electric range, in 2020. Nice.

At that price, it better be the E36-based Alpina B8 4.6!

This range increase is in line with what Chevy did for the 1st Gen Volts. 2011-12 Model Year Volts had a range of 35 miles (16 kWh pack / 10.3kWh usable), 2013-14 Volts had their battery chemistry changed up and that increased the range to an EPA rated 38 miles (16.5 kWh/10.8kWh usable) and the 2015 (final year of the…

That’s what a lot of proper plug-in hybrids do, like the Chevy Volt.

You mean Odin-son!

with a 10kWh battery? That’ll probably only have a 30 mile range with a good tailwind!

So I probably rode the latest Bird scooter littered across Mission Beach and most of San Diego only 2 weeks ago. I’m around 200 lbs and with a backpack maybe 220 lbs, I managed to hit 20 MPH consistently on the LCD display and rode 6 miles on it in 28 minutes to the SAN airport because I couldn’t find a single…