With all the technology that is in the volt, one thing that is mystifying me is why the manufacturers decided to not have an 'auto off' feature for the car power. As the car it complely silent it is all too easy to forget to press the power button and exit the car with the power left on. It...

Last night I started a thread about my scary experience when I accidentally shutdown the Volt on a dark road. A couple of things I said in that thread were either vague or (unintentionally) inaccurate as shown in the test I just completed. Here is what happened when I "accidentally" shutdown...

I had just let my brother off at his house tonight after showing him my four-week old Volt for the first time. I was on a dark two lane road with no shoulders. I noticed I was still in sport mode (sport mode is for impressing skeptical ICE fans). So I knew I could get into normal mode by...