CHEVY VOLT RANGE EXTENDER MILEAGE DRIVERS

Of all those Volt miles, about 81 percent were in all-electric mode.Īdditionally, Volt drivers recharged about 1.5 times a day, while Leaf drivers recharged about once a day, and about 85 percent of that charging was at home. Overall, the average Leaf is driven about 15 percent less than the national average of about 11,300 miles a year for all vehicles, while Volts are driven about eight percent more. Additionally, Volt drivers obviously have no fear of running out of electricity, so they were far more likely to max out on that range than some Leaf drivers. The logic makes sense considering typical US driving habits, in which a vast majority of people commute less than 35 miles a day. In short, even though the Volt's all-electric range of about 38 miles is less than half that of the Leaf's, the Volts' collective all-electric driving was just six percent lower than the Leaf's (the next-generation Volt will be even more electro-generous, with a 50-mile range). Idaho National Laboratory (INL), which tracked about 8,700 cars during a three-year period, including a bunch of Volts, Leafs and Smart EDĮlectric vehicles. Such were the findings of a study conducted by the

Range anxiety? What range anxiety? The concept is a foreign one to those drivingĬhevrolet Volt extended-range plug-ins, and as a result, that vehicle's all-electric driving miles are actually pretty close to that of the all-electric

Chevy volt range extender mileage