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Charity Volt

December 01, 2010
This is quite nice. The very first Volt off the line in official production is going into a museum. (That car is known as Job 1, so it's important.) The SECOND Volt is being…

I'm a TWiT!

December 02, 2010
Er, maybe I'm ON TWiT. This Week In Tech . I clicked on "Download Video" to see it, but maybe your browser will be smarter. They misspelled my name, and that was after I wrote it…

Building Cars is not Publishing Software

December 03, 2010
Really, one hopes that GM has looked carefully at the example of Eclipse Aviation . This is the story of a software business expert (Vern Raburn) who believed that he could copy… read more

A Losing Proposition

December 04, 2010
Ah, where the rubber meets the road. GM loses money on every Volt they build . That's a little painful to read, especially when every time I talk to someone about the car they… read more

So Far

December 05, 2010
This was the download from last Wednesday. It does look like in this cold weather the range drops to a little over 30 miles. That still works for me, and it is almost never fifty… read more

Click to Upgrade

December 17, 2010
On December 4 in Torrance the Southern California CAB members had a great meet up at GM's facility in Torrance. That's written up on the GM Volt CAB site . While I was there one… read more

Video Stardom

March 31, 2011
Not really. But I am in a tiny section of this video by Alexandra Paul. I need to write about turning in my CAB car and getting my own. I've been busy tooling around in the…

the Nest

November 19, 2011
This is not strictly a post about the Volt, but I have decided this is my all-purpose technology blog as well. As a brief update: I have 6,500 miles on the Volt and I have put in… read more

Fame!

June 08, 2012
SolarCity came by with a camera crew and talked with me for forty-five minutes about the system I had installed back in 2008. They are going to use this on their website.

Smart Comparison

June 18, 2013
I really enjoyed this: http://www.cockeyed.com/science/electric_car/electric_car.html

Finally Ignored the Gas Engine Long Enough

June 18, 2013
Your Gas is Old Even though I wrote a post about it , I was still surprised to see this message. I managed to run the car around only on batteries for the entire month and… read more

The Sad End of the Volt

April 28, 2014
Three Happy Years That was a great car. When I was asked in Detroit if I thought the Volt would be a good car for me, I answered very honestly and said, "As long as I can do my… read more

Buy the Bolt

March 26, 2017
This will eventually be the first entry in my new blog about having a Bolt, which is amazingly close to the perfect electric car and the vehicle that I imagined when I was driving… read more