18 Jul '12, 12pm

If 63% Of Volt Miles Are Electric, Isn't It An Electric Car?

Rest assured Volt owners: the car IS an electric car since its wheels are (essentially) always being powered by electricity, nothing else. If one argues that is uses gasoline to produce that electricity, well, so what? How do you think an all electric car's electricity is produced? With pixie dust? The Volt is merely carrying its own little power station aboard the car, which has the added benefit of avoiding energy power losses always encountered when drawing power from a source many miles from the device and avoids most of the cost of batteries.

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