miles per kwh

I'm really curious how the heck anyone gets 50-60 miles on one charge as I've read on this forum. I got my Volt on Sunday, it was a factory car with 950 miles already on the car. Every morning this week I have gotten in the car fully charged showing 32 miles on the charge... I have kept the...

Today I drove 62.9 miles on 12.5 kWh, or 5.03 miles per kWh. Some quick calculations. Economic equivalent mpg: Assuming electricity is 12 cents per kWh and gas is 3.60 per gallon, thats the economic equivalent of 150mpg. Co2 equivalent mpg: Assuming pure coal power at 2 lbs of C02 per...

Hi all, We have a new Volt and enough solar panels on our roof (hopefully) to bring our PG&E bill down to zero. I love the way we can use the electric rate feature on the Volt to start charging at midnight and stop charging at 7 AM to ensure that we pay only 3.5 - 4 cents per kilowatt hour...