Jay G started this. Read his post first.
The draw on a Chevy Volt is 3,300 watts charging from the 240v charger that's required to get that range in 4 hours.
13.2 KWh per charge. What does your electric company charge per Kwh? Mine's pretty complicated, but it would cost me $1.312 per charge most of the time. That's an extra $39.38 a month to my electric bill assuming that I am running under 1,000 kWh a month total. Since I never come in under 1,000 kWh, adding a Volt would be adding electric use on top of that, so it's really $1.696 per charge.
$619.16 a year that my normal powered car doesn't cost me. That carries me 12,775 miles optimally.
Lets assume that I only drive that 35 miles every day and never go farther.
A brand new Civic EX sedan gets 39mpg and is under $21,000. So I have saved $25k on the car itself. At $3.219 a gallon that's 7,766.4 gallons of gas! Which is 302,899.1 miles. A 23.7 year supply of fuel in the difference in the purchase price. Owning a Civic for 23.7 years SAVES more than $600 over a Volt. Even if fuel spikes to $4.009 a gallon I still have a NINETEEN year supply of fuel from the savings of the actual purchase (and I still save that $619.16).
Will a Volt even last 19 years? I've seen lots of 1991 Hondas still on the road; no so many Chevys.
And let's look at something else.
My 1991 Biscayne gets a whopping 15 mpg in and around town. It's paid for. While I would have to pay $3,414.33 a year in gas to get those 35 miles a day like the Volt does for $619.16; I saved $46,000 when I didn't buy a new car; and that assumes I paid cash, doesn't account for tax, title or license doesn't take in interest on a loan... There's your real math kids. My land yacht is $43k ahead of a Volt in the first year; plus it's done depreciating. Even if something major breaks I have at least ten years of driving the B-Body before I hit the purchase price of a new Volt. I have every confidence that the Biscuit will make it to 2021 too. There are still 1955 Chevys on the road because there's a Hot-Rodder community for them, just like my car. I just don't see such a community popping up around the Volt.
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