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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
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I'd like to talk to the guys who designed them. It is an amazing car, but there are a couple of annoying - even dangerous - things about it.
They put the power button right below the mode button and twice I've turned the dammed thing off while trying to change modes. Seems like every Volt owner does this sooner or later. Strangely, (and fortunately) while the motive power dies, the power steering and power brakes still work. They should put the power button in some remote place, since you only use it twice per drive.
The whole dashboard follows the recent trend of making it necessary to take your eyes off the road to change anything, which i don't like. It's not as bad as BMW's iDrive, but it's never the less dangerous and annoying. It's hard to find a car without it anymore. Someday someone is going to design a safety "drive by feel" dashboard that lets you control basic functions by the feel of the control and lets you keep your eyes on the road.
I also wish they would have an automatically closing charge door. I forget and leave mine open most of the time. Have to stop the car and get out and close it.
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Wow - 2 Volts - 2x cool!!!!
I am in the land of cold and snow - I love mine - heated seats... decent traction control, and I think all the battery weight running down where the tunnel is on 'other' cars really helps in the snow as well. Yes, for everyone who wondered if you lose power in the winter, you do. In fact, when it gets below about 30°F the IC kicks on for short periods of time to help heat the cabin, if nothing else internal combustion engines are great at making heat, while heat via battery - no so efficient. So, the car figures out that rather than heating the cabin inefficiently with battery power, it will start the IC for a couple of minutes, saving battery power to be used more efficiently powering the drive train.
My car tells me when the recharge door is open - there is a red warning that comes on in the bottom of the dash read-out. Plus, your gas door on your regular car doesn't have 'power close', I think you just have to get use to it, I shut mine as soon as I pull the plug.
Also - I think you have to push the power button twice to get it to shut down while in drive - there is a warning that also comes up when you do it the first time - says shift to park to shut down, if you hit it the 2nd time - it will shut down while in drive.
And while haters gotta hate - I bet every single one of them takes every single credit they can on their taxes (or we have some mighty foolish people on this forum). Do all the childless people on this board ***** when those of us with kids took off everything from the child credit to dependent child care to college tuition credit? How about all of those of you with mortgages - should those of us without mortgages ***** about your tax credit? Medical, church donations, heck, there are lots and lots of credits out there.... I bet everyone casting tax credit stones has a 1040 house built of glass. Oh, for all you haters, between the fed and the state credits - my Volt cost me $15,000.... and that is before the weasel pee credit
