Well-Suited for Longer Road Trips - 2016 Chevrolet Volt

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Well-Suited for Longer Road Trips - 2016 Chevrolet Volt

Taking a road trip in the Edmunds long-term 2016 Chevrolet Volt.

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throwback

Well, the electricity on the return trip was free for you, no?

kirkhilles1

Thanks for the update and details. Good to know these numbers.

schen72

I live very close to Los Gatos and I've heard Manresa is excellent. But alas, I'm too cheap to spend a month's worth of groceries on a dinner.

legacygt

I'm a little confused. Based on my reading your mpg are based on the total miles driven divided by the gasoline consumed. But gasoline wasn't consumed during the periods of electric-only driving. So the mpg number isn't especially meaningful. Based on the numbers given here the only actual mpg we can calculated is 258 miles (300-42) / 7.657 gallons which comes to about 34 mpg. If you had to get back in the car and keep on driving without a chance to recharge, I guess this is the mpg you could expect for the rest of your long distance trip. I think this is pretty impressive given that the Volt isn't optimized for these conditions, but you'd do better in one of many similarly sized gasoline-only cars if you had to drive on a long road trip without opportunities to charge.

ebeaudoin

legacygt said:

I'm a little confused. Based on my reading your mpg are based on the total miles driven divided by the gasoline consumed. But gasoline wasn't consumed during the periods of electric-only driving. So the mpg number isn't especially meaningful. Based on the numbers given here the only actual mpg we can calculated is 258 miles (300-42) / 7.657 gallons which comes to about 34 mpg. If you had to get back in the car and keep on driving without a chance to recharge, I guess this is the mpg you could expect for the rest of your long distance trip. I think this is pretty impressive given that the Volt isn't optimized for these conditions, but you'd do better in one of many similarly sized gasoline-only cars if you had to drive on a long road trip without opportunities to charge.

What we need to find out is when they reset the trip meter. If I had a plug-in hybrid, I would use Fuelly to track my fuel consumption. I would reset Trip A every time I filled up and divide total miles driven by gallons pumped. That's how a Ford Fusion Energi owner is reporting averaging 67.4 MPG, with a best tank of 154.1 MPG.

desmolicious

$450 per person (including wine pairing) for the dinner? Guess you do need to save on gas!

ctpaul

desmolicious said:

$450 per person (including wine pairing) for the dinner? Guess you do need to save on gas!

expense account?

ctpaul

I agree with above comments regarding the MPG, would be more interesting to have separated out the gas engine portion and the electric portion rather than just the total MPG.