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Would someone help me understand how the "energy usage score" actually provides you a score. Outside Temperature has been pinned on 5.0 in hot (80+ deg.) weather. Is a 5.0 a good thing or a bad thing? What do you want it to be if you had a choice? The Outside temperature is the one that...

FleetCarma is hosting a challenge to give EV owners the opportunity to best champion their plug-in. Competing vehicles are the Volt, iMiEV, Focus Electric, and Leaf. Do you think that your Volt is the best plug-in out there? Take this opportunity and prove it. Participants will receive three...

Hey everyone - I'm new in the forums here! anyway - I am a fan of alternative energy cars because I love the idea of finding better ways to do things - not because I feel that gas powered cars are bad, etc. (But seriously - it has been almost 100 years since the invention of the automobile -...

I got to drive a Leaf about a week ago, and for the most part, it validated my preference for the Volt. One feature I really liked, though, was a digital gage to see the kW usage, similar to a meter showing RPM on those old school gas guzzlers. As you accelerate more, it shows more kWs used...

Recently Tony Posawatz, the Volt vehicle line director, indicated the Volt would use more than 8 kwh of battery energy to achieve the E range goal of 25 to 50 miles: http://gm-volt.com/2010/10/08/chevrolet-volt-uses-more-than-8-kwh-of-stored-battery-energy-to-achieve-ev-range/ This is more...