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Originally Posted by dyna mo
If you can drive and keep the car in full electric mode it gets a much much better equivalent but it seems it's extremely hard to do and to add, it's difficult to calculate with these hybrids but yeah, I was surprised too.
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This will actually be a part of the fun for me. In My Camaro, I am always looking at the amount of Litres-per-kilometer, and trying to get it as low as possible by adjusting my driving habits. The car is a standard shift so you get lots of control over this, but its also easy to fuck up too.
For example, if I drive 100 kilometres per hour in 6th gear, it drinks about 8 litres per kilometre. But if I speed up to 140 Kilometres per hour, my usage creeps up to about 11.9 litres per kilometre. Driving 40% faster uses fuel 48% faster. I am assuming the extra 8% is thanks to increased drag, but that would be only a guess.
With a Volt, I'm going to watch it really carefully and try to squeeze out every volt from that battery (haha, I'm such a wit).
I promise to post my results, good or bad, in this thread. If I end up hating my purchase, you know I'll be honest about it.
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Originally Posted by Supz
Thats very 'French Canadian' of you
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It is? I don't know about that... It's very hippy / liberal / democratic / tree-huggeree asshole-ish of me for sure, but I don't know if it is French Canadian of me.
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Originally Posted by Ed Hammer
Its fun to floor my Escalade next to these types of cars. oops, just canceled out your environmental bs  |
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