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Originally Posted by Jeff Alton
Also would love to know from owners what impact a charge had on their electricity bill. Assuming 4-6 full charges per month?
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I wish I could help. I've tried to keep track, but it's complicated. My wife's Volt has only been driven about 3K miles since August. In that time she's used a bit over 4 gallons of gas (160 miles), the rest has been from the charger at home where the power is $0.143 per kw/hour. She has a light foot and the car sleeps in a garage where it's warm. She gets about 4 miles per kwh, so she's paying about $0.036 per mile for fuel. Theoretically our electric bill should have gone up about $27 over the period ($3.35 a month).
I've driven my Volt 4762 miles on electricity and 12,046 on gas. It stays in a cold garage so I have to heat it up on cold days. But I do about 75% of the charging at the office where the power would be $0.08 per kwh if I paid for it (I kind of do, but with before tax dollars). I guess I've paid about $10 for electricity and whatever 300 gallons of gas cost me.
We just got our tax forms back from the accountant. We got $15,000 in tax credits from the cars. In our situation the economics of owning a Volt are astounding.