cts | Volt a Day | 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 degrees here in Southern California.

Most of the fuel-powered miles were driven by the GM folk that had the car before me. Even so, I would be pretty happy with 283 miles on every gallon. That means I would burn twenty-seven gallons on a year. I don't want to be part of the oil equation anymore, but I know that we'll probably have to back out of it a little at a time.

I think that more active management of the temperature of the pack would improve my range. There's no reason the batteries have to be fifty degrees at the start of the day.