An adviser greeted us immediately, processed the car and gave us an estimate of three hours to complete the work. (It's way better than the grabby brakes in our long-term Tacoma, just for comparison's sake.). Calvin Kim. And it's nice and square. Rather than take a flight up to California's wine country for a work trip, I opted to drive the 425 or so miles each way. It works quite well, in my opinion. Again, lower is better. Why unwind the Volt's Level 1 cord when my daughter's Fiat cord is already plugged in and ready to go? I'd prefer if it had a paddle that you could modulate, like current gaming controllers that let you trail the brakes into a corner and roll into the throttle on the way out. The instant torque surge is intoxicating. It is a system easily sabotaged by simple oversights. It gave the high-tech car a decidedly low-tech feel. Nor is the Volt spewing undesirable pollution out its tailpipe under electric power. And I continue to be disappointed by its lack of long-distance driver seat comfort. It's probably not noticeable to anyone else in the car (at least no one who's ridden with me), but it's apparent from the driver seat. Once the interior is cooled down to your temperature of choice, the Eco mode does a nice job of maintaining the temperature and you probably won't feel like you're making a huge sacrifice in the name of fuel economy." What Kind of Fuel Economy Did It Get? "Bring it around and we'll put it on for you. But kids are a different matter. Jonathan touched on it in an earlier post here. Comments Acceleration: (Electric-only mode) Accelerator response is immediate with nice amount of torque right off the line. Sure, a higher-power onboard charger would be far more convenient, but at least the Volt has a gasoline engine to fall back on when its juice runs out. A glance through the windows in any direction was obstructed only by a harmless layer of dust. A dead 12-volt battery left us hanging for the third time during our test, though we eventually limped it to the dealer for replacement. Sizeable roof pillars hamper rearward vision as well. The Blazer EV gets 59.2-cubic feet of space with the 2nd row folded down. You can't modulate it. And everyone would enjoy instant-on electric propulsion that really thumps in the heavily trafficked zero-to-40-mph range. Compared to other hybrids, the Volt fares pretty well. It's not a huge change, but it's an important one. I hit it once more and timed the response: 40 seconds! "[The interior] is more upscale than the previous model's, with two-tone color schemes, easy-to-use audio and climate controls and a pair of 8-inch information screens. The LT's interior can be optioned in either Jet Black or Light/Dark Ash cloth seating with chrome and gloss plastic trim as standard, although $460 will upgrade the interior to feature a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob from vinyl, and adding leather-appointed seat upholstery. And let me tell you: When you're sitting in the cab of a tow truck plodding along through traffic to a Pep Boys, the benefits of a compact spare take far greater significance over the added trunk space and ever slight increases in fuel economy that a small air compressor and a can of goo provide. A failure to record the switchover from electric to gas modes means a loss of useful data. Nope. Getting cargo in and out of the Volt's hatch is relatively easy. My panel isn't too far from the outlet, separated by a couple of bedrooms, maybe 30 feet. Most commute statistics say that the majority of people drive no more than 20 miles each way to work. But it's. Starting nearly $1,200 less than the 2015 Volt, it's more affordable, as well, with an LT trim featuring a base price of $33,995 (including destination fee). But I digress. I don't remember feeling that way about the previous Volt. He said they do indeed and also have a Tesla-specific charger. 2) Smartphone integration. My 5-foot-6 wife, on the other hand, complained about her comfort in the passenger seat." For example, the Leaf SV and SL have a 6.6 kW onboard charger that cuts the charging time to five hours despite also having a larger battery pack with greater range. Chevrolet Seating and Interior Space The Volt is equipped to seat a total of five passengers - however, with limited overall rear cabin room, only two small adults or three children will. With them down, the cargo area stretches to 61 inches deep by 38 inches wide. After all, the engine comes on quite frequently in non-EV operation, and that's how I've been driving it for a number of days. Normal and useful has replaced future-tech goofy. It's up to a substantial 53 miles (EPA-estimated), compared to 38 miles with the first-gen Volt. The seatbacks fold 80/20 and flat. Innovative tech. MPG "In theory, you can drive the Chevrolet Volt like a regular hybrid just don't ever plug it in! We headed to CarMax and accepted its offer of $20,000. Chevrolet Volt Cargo Space The Volt has a rather slim 10.6 cubic feet of trunk space, but its wide hatchback makes it easy to load and unload items. The Premier is offered as a more premium and comprehensive package, featured as standard with leather-wrapped interior appointments, a six-way power-adjustable driver's seat, a heated steering wheel, and front and rear outboard seats. With cargo space concealed storage you don't have to choose between bringing all your valuables with you or leaving them in the car and risking . Will the luggage fit? Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Cargo "I picked up two sheets of 3-by-5-foot cement backer board for a home bathroom remodel. My trip north was the first time we've driven our Volt in conditions with plenty of precipitation, including snow. For this pimple to happen it would have had to been caused from inside the car, right? Even though the Volt seats five, its middle seat should only be used in a pinch, as the cars center console extends all the way back to the seat cushion, so anyone riding in the middle rear seat must straddle the console. Unlike with a traditional gasoline-powered car, you're not losing all that potential energy due to heat loss (the heat generated by the burning of the gasoline). The 8-inch MyLink infotainment display gets the latest generation of Chevrolet's tech, which is also quite good." After 28,992 miles, the Edmunds TMV Calculator valued the car at $19,763. There's not enough room for the two grocery bags shown in the photo to fit lengthwise. You may be wondering why my daughter is using a Level 1 charge cord in the first place. Nothing happened. Forget the usual small hump in the floor; this is a straight-up beverage cart between your thighs. Oh! It was a piece of cake. Load bay volume: 15.6 cubic feet. No noticeable difference in the way the car drove. So I drove around the remainder of the weekend on the Volt's 101-horsepower gas engine and was very impressed. Above are shown two possible origins of the squeak. A small, pluggable hole that they fixed for $20, and another reminder that spare tires are wonderful things. Those are awfully convenient to have on the traffic-congested freeways of Los Angeles. Large . I'd like to see other manufacturers go hard at the Volt with comparable capabilities and sexier designs. A 120V Level 1 charge takes a long time; no more than three or four miles of driving range are accumulated each hour. With the second-row seats folded we fit all of our luggage with room to spare. It certainly wasn't dramatic, but it still moved the needle. His slog between home and Edmunds HQ is a round trip of 120 miles to my 80. Both the LT and the Premier are fitted with an eight-inch HD color infotainment touchscreen installed with Chevrolet's infotainment 3 Plus system, with a Volt-exclusive Energy App and 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot capability. The old saw "time is money" has never been more true. Have you ever been lying awake in bed listening to a torturous faucet drip? According to our calculations, 42 percent of our time was spent in EV mode. No big deal since Waze alerts come over the car's speakers if the phone is plugged in. But the Volt was full Monday morning because I hadn't started with a completely drained battery. But it's still noticeable how the highway and engine hum is nicely damped and attenuated in the new Volt. Behind the first row there's 68.3 cubic feet, 36.3 cubic feet behind the second row and 17.2 cubic feet of space is behind . But this is a car that, government rebates aside, stickered at $40,620. We drove it for 13 months and put 15,063 miles on it. --, "CarPlay allows users of iPhones with Lightning connectors to access Siri: Eyes Free text-message alerts, Maps, iMessage, Apple Music, and, of course, the phone itself. There was very little traction available. Since I don't have a Level 2 charger at home, I'd be stuck with the trickle-charge economics of a 120-volt outlet. I couldn't get an app going to monitor the Volt's charge (someone has since told me you can do it on the Volt's OnStar site), so after an hour and 20 minutes, I packed up and headed back to the car. Takes corners nicely, too. I was then off on a voyage to Corvallis, Oregon, and back a week later. We spent most of March driving our 2016 Chevrolet Volt on gasoline. Erm, well, that's a good point. We wrote a check for $38,114 and the 2016 Chevrolet Volt Premier was ours. Whatever they did worked. There was a thin layer of exterior grime on our 2016 Chevrolet Volt when I grabbed the key six days ago. The interior's dimensions are unchanged, which means the back seat is still tight for adults." Oh well. Recall P0442: Correct emission pipe contacting A/C hose. We were also pleasantly surprised by the Volt's composure on the road. The Volt seats five people in two rows, but the middle seat is barely useable. In my head I was nodding in agreement like Angus Young. That's about enough room to haul along a desktop PC, screen, and everything else you'd need for a good old fashioned LAN session. My commute is dreadful. Check the cargo space for other makes and models So that's why I didn't buy a Volt. 1: Seats: Seat bottoms are too short, as in two hand-widths from seat bottom to my knee short. It may look like a Cruze/Civic mashup on the outside that's the biggest weakness, in my opinion but the driving character is appropriately upscale. The meat of the system is an 18.4-kWh battery pack powering two electric motors. --. Don't forget that the Volt spends a lot of time in notorious L.A. traffic, which is worse than the city driving pattern used by the EPA.". Due to some confusion at 22,500 miles, we paid $45 even though the visit fell within the free period. We also added navigation, Kinetic Blue paint, an illuminated charge port, a cargo mat and a cargo net. It's the design of the cargo area. Others simply coalesce into a big pot of nope. I tried to keep this number as high as possible over the next week, but I couldn't stay tethered to ChargePoint stations forever. This, of course, is the first vehicle of its kind, so these weaknesses are likely to disappear especially since the concept has so much promise.". Based on my experience with our old 2014 BMW i3, I estimated I would make it out of the office with the Volt around 10 a.m.. I did this a couple times before I got the hang of it and felt so embarrassed." --. I tested both methods several times and was met with the same result. Max electric-only range upward of 70 miles. 3: When you shift into drive, the Volt locks itself. By contrast it was one of our higher electric-use months, with 398 miles, or 37 percent, of the total distance traveled on the juice. She was not nearly as impressed. It only slows to creep speed (like you get with a regular car with an automatic transmission). To answer the question as to why I didn't buy an i3: too few gasoline miles and a weak motor. That's why the Volt is so exciting. Traffic was still moving perfectly when I zoomed past my destination, solely focused on driving 75 miles for no real reason. Traffic was heavy without stopping and running somewhere less than 45 mph. And the 5-foot-8 rear passenger even remarked that there was decent legroom and headroom, which is not something I remember hearing about the first-generation car. Available through the touchscreen, it shows the miles driven and the kWh energy used to drive that distance. "A more questionable aspect, however, is headroom. My first stop for learning more was fueleconomy.gov. I tilt the seatback a couple of notches to compensate for the excessive padding against my shoulder blades with some success. Here's the question I'm left with: Why aren't more car companies building cars like this? 2016 Chevrolet Volt (56 listings) 2 Great deals starting at $13,349. It maneuvers through traffic with ease and simplifies passing maneuvers. The rear seats fold down to provide extra room if you need it, and the Volts hatch makes it easy to load and unload cargo. Driving the Volt primarily like a hybrid, running solely off the gas engine, isn't really in the spirit of the thing, but I don't have a Level 2 charger at home and I suspect the next-gen Volt would be here by the time I could replenish the battery from the garage outlet. This is not a do-it-yourself piece. SiriusXM 3-month trial subscription. That works out to 29.7 kWh per 100 miles. Center console? Mike Schmidt, Senior Manager, Vehicle Testing, Interior "I like that the Volt's T-shaped battery pack is the EV Age's equivalent of the muscle car's driveshaft tunnel. The i3 had a 22 kilowatt-hour battery and an all-electric range of 72 miles. After all, with anywhere from 50 to 70 miles of electric range, you can drive for an entire day on electricity without even thinking about it. Interior dimensions with the second-row seatbacks in place measured approximately 29 inches deep by 38 inches wide at the wheel wells. It feels similar to when you press the brake pedal harder in the last few feet of a regular stop. The 2018 Chevrolet Volt has a quiet cabin, and its well-designed. Seventy miles in the new Volt is not as impressive as 54.6 miles was in the old one. Fleetmaster Schmidt informed me that our 2016 Chevrolet Volt was due for a service before I took it for the long Labor Day weekend. Traffic cleared about halfway home and started to move along at the 65 mph speed limit. Contact us online or call for more information. A Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid, which has Volt powertrain guts but without the giant battery, gets 49 mpg city (46 mpg combined). The plate bracket itself has all the necessary directions molded right into it. Two ways to brake! Turns out the car was prompting the phone to download the necessary Android Auto software and get me to accept some Terms and Conditions. I spent a lot of time in our long-term 2016 Chevrolet Volt recently. So a few weeks ago, before we bought our long-term 2016 Chevrolet Volt, I walked into a Chevy dealer to buy one for myself. Constantly switching back to XM after every Waze alert grew particularly aggravating on my long trip. My family currently includes my wife, 5-year-old son, 9-year-old daughter and 17-year-old female foreign exchange student living with us. There are other ways to reduce speed in the Volt. Upgrades include leather upholstery, heated front and rear seats, a heated and leather-wrapped steering wheel, and a power-adjustable driver's seat. I've also been keeping an eye on what is effectively the Volt's in-car "fuel economy" gauge for electric drive. Instruments and controls are easy to use, much improved over the previous generation of the Volt. when driving the Volt home is to milk the charge as far as I can, then run it off the engine until the next time I can get it back to the Edmunds garage charger. What this means is, I can use the Fiat 500e Level 1 cord to recharge the Volt. Since minute variations in throttle position produce a profound effect on velocity in that mode, I'll go with "D" for highway driving. I try wrestling the manual seat-bottom adjuster fore and aft. On every turn, I thwacked either the center console or the armrest with an elbow. Nope. Carlos Lago, Miscellaneous "The only downside is the smell. As I'm driving around, I'd like to get as much electric range as possible, but using the existing paddle exclusively creates a lot of clumsy decelerations. "That's one way to brake! This particular issue crops up because a hybrid vehicle can utilize two different systems to help slow the car down. Cloth upholstery and manually adjustable front seats are standard. More like a Civic. front and center, even if it's the first time logging into that specific vehicle. This, in turn, butterflies my legs and leaves me with few options to stretch out, which only amplifies long distance discomfort. 6: Ride's not great over bumps. Our 2016 Chevrolet Volt started November strong, with most of the drivers only tapping into the gasoline engine for 20 to 30 miles at a time before plugging into a charging station. With more alternative-fuel vehicles on the market, including the BMW i3 we're currently testing, the 2016 Volt faces more competition, and perhaps a tougher audience, this time around. The Volt has Apple CarPlay, which is fine, but CarPlay doesn't put Waze on the Volt's screen. "That's four, four ways to brake! But I don't need to break down the numbers to know there's more in there. While it may offer the worst-all-electric range of any of the plug-in cars currently . All of the above charging times assume a connection to a Level 2 charger. In case they don't sell them where you live, the "e" stands for electric. I've got chargers at my home, office and frequented shopping centers and I've got disposable income. The Volt does not. The reason for that: it's basically a 2016 Chevrolet Volt without the plug. It's not that kind of car. Up front, forward visibility is not as good as what you'll find in some other hybrid and electric cars, like the Prius Prime and the Bolt. They even managed to squeeze the seat heater buttons in there without overcrowding things. How much more efficient can the Low/paddle two-step be? The salesman and I headed out to the lot to inspect their first delivery of Volts. I have and I am right now. I'm still figuring it all out, including which apps are supported and which aren't. Most was in hybrid mode. She doesn't drive many miles a day, so we've found that the standard 120-volt Level 1 charge cord that came with the car is more than adequate. It will seat 5 full sized adults with ease and has loads of storage space in the back. Things like climate control systems should be usable at a glance regardless of the car. Leather upholstery, heated front and rear seats, and a heated steering wheel are available. Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Technology-Audio "It seems as though audio functions are inconsistent between the steering wheel controls and the on-screen 'skip' buttons. Show New Vehicles. 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