Chevy Volt Test Drive By Independent Source

[BusyAfternoon]

Chevy Volt Test Drive By Independent Source

Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money) test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.

For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine. Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery.

So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles. It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph. According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10-12 hours to charge a drained batter.

A trip from Detroit to St Louis, Door to door, takes about 10 hours and is 610 miles. With a volt I could almost make it to Indianapolis and I'd have a 10-12 hour layover to charge up. The next leg would leave me somewhere short of St Louis leaving me another 10 hours to wonder why the hell I bought the Obamamobile. Day three I could make it to my destination, visit till my battery was again fully charged and retrace my tire tracks home. Yeah, another good government design.

So Obama wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car (Volt--$43,000, comparable gas driven sedan $15,000) that takes 3 times as long to drive across country. Add finding a charger station, extra meals and hotel accommodations, more frequent gas stops and possible repairs; why bother.

 

[JohnnySavage]

1. How is Eric Bolling of Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money an Independent Source?

2. The car isn't suitable for a trip from Detroit to St. Louis. I'll make a note of that, should I ever (god forbid) find myself wanting to make such a trip.

3. If you are country folk who live out in fly over land and have a 300 mile daily commute, the Volt isn't for you, nor was it designed for you. Thankfully most people don't live in such places.

4. The Volt is excellent for urban dwellers who only drive a few miles a day to and from work - like the majority of Americans. It'd be nice to get the city folk out of their Porsche or BMW SUVs... I mean... really? A Porsche SUV?

5. Hi Powerdouche!

 

[Saint Peter]

I mean... really? A Porsche SUV?

I love my Cayenne!

 

[JohnnySavage]

I love my Cayenne!

Yea, but you're a Dandy.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

If America was serious about alternative energy Owebama would do like Roosevelt did, and lock a legion of brainiacs on an Indian Reservation till they came up with a real plan.

Put them on a reservation or Guantanomo, surround them with Marines, and shoot one scientist a week till they hatch some good ideas.

 

[off2bed]

If America was serious about alternative energy Owebama would do like Roosevelt did, and lock a legion of brainiacs on an Indian Reservation till they came up with a real plan.

Put them on a reservation or Guantanomo, surround them with Marines, and shoot one scientist a week till they hatch some good ideas.

As long as it's the climate change scientists I'm good with that.

 

[phrodeau]

Chevy Volt Test Drive By Independent Source

Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money) test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.

For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine. Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery.

So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles. It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph. According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10-12 hours to charge a drained batter.

A trip from Detroit to St Louis, Door to door, takes about 10 hours and is 610 miles. With a volt I could almost make it to Indianapolis and I'd have a 10-12 hour layover to charge up. The next leg would leave me somewhere short of St Louis leaving me another 10 hours to wonder why the hell I bought the Obamamobile. Day three I could make it to my destination, visit till my battery was again fully charged and retrace my tire tracks home. Yeah, another good government design.

So Obama wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car (Volt--$43,000, comparable gas driven sedan $15,000) that takes 3 times as long to drive across country. Add finding a charger station, extra meals and hotel accommodations, more frequent gas stops and possible repairs; why bother.

He didn't buy an Obamamobile, he test-drove a Volt. Some journalist, who can't keep his story straight.

 

[BusyAfternoon]

1. How is Eric Bolling of Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money an Independent Source?

2. The car isn't suitable for a trip from Detroit to St. Louis. I'll make a note of that, should I ever (god forbid) find myself wanting to make such a trip.

3. If you are country folk who live out in fly over land and have a 300 mile daily commute, the Volt isn't for you, nor was it designed for you. Thankfully most people don't live in such places.

4. The Volt is excellent for urban dwellers who only drive a few miles a day to and from work - like the majority of Americans. It'd be nice to get the city folk out of their Porsche or BMW SUVs... I mean... really? A Porsche SUV?

5. Hi Powerdouche!

wow, ah dude, you are so sufficated, or is it powersufficated?

powerdouche? Really powerdouche? That's so 32 seconds ago. You need to upgrade if you want to stay a "real hep cat."

 

[richard_daily]

He didn't buy an Obamamobile, he test-drove a Volt. Some journalist, who can't keep his story straight.

Sounds like an "independent source" to me!

 

[richard_daily]

Yup, definitely an "independent source". Kind of the like all the "free thinkers", and "not republicans" on here.

He has also been a regular fill-in host on The Glenn Beck Program, The O'Reilly Factor and Fox and Friends. On February 16, 2012, Bolling attracted media attention when he advised Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a black congressperson, to "step away from the crack pipe" because "you saw what happened to Whitney Houston." He later clarified the comment saying he was "just kidding"