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The Prius Plug-In and Leaf are both unique looking and make a statement about "Being Green". While the Volt will go up to 40 miles in electric mode, the engine doesn't drive the wheels, and the Volt only gets 36 miles per gallon when it runs out of battery-while the Prius Plug-In gets 50 MPG.įinally, the Chevy Volt looks too much like an ordinary car. There's more headroom in a Prius than a Volt. And I'm a big guy, so it was harder for me to get in and out of the Volt. It's only a four-seater the Prius has five seats.
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I can't make it there and back in a Leaf, even on a full charge, but I can in the Plug-In Prius.Īs for the Chevrolet Volt, I test-drove it. What helped make the decision against the Leaf is the fact that DFW Airport is 43 miles from my home. It's nice to know I can drive the Plug-In Prius across country, and where there IS a charging station along the way, I can charge up and save a little gas. I liked its dash and the futuristic sounds. The range anxiety kept me from buying one. I test drove a Nissan Leaf, which is a little small. One reader and early buyer of a Prius Plug-In Advanced model, Jim Bradbury of Rowlett, Texas, agreed to share his thoughts with us: As it turns out, they do indeed last and hold their value quite well.Given all that, we'll be very curious to see what the sales mix of these three plug-ins turns out to be-and how buyers evaluate each car against the other two. You are probably looking at 10 years before these hybrids end up being cheap enough to get at a wrecker based on past experience with toyota's prius. Would be interesting to see if they hold true, because their price is also bound to be much less than the volt.
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The chinese BYD claims to have full series hybrid mode in addition to 80 miles all electric range. My understanding is that the new honda insight is also in the mid to low 20s for price. No doubt toyota has the capability to deploy a larger battery if needed later on, but I suspect they won't have to for the sake of competing with the volt. Isn't the prius a much cheaper, lighter, and more aerodynamic?Ĭonsidering how cheap lithium is getting, the smaller battery in the prius might not matter much because you can buy a LOT of lithium for the ~$20k price difference (some one correct me if I am wrong on the price spread between the volt and prius).įrom what I understand it is capable of running up to full highway speeds on battery power alone. Then our EVs would do everything we would want them to.
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I think there would be a reasonable market among DIYers if someone were to produce a (streamlined) generator trailer that efficiently put out 144/120/96VDC and maybe a 72/60/48V one for motorcycles. The problem with existing small engines is that it is hard to get them to output the high voltage DC that we would need. You could just hire it when you needed to go on holidays, especially if the trailer had room for luggage as well. If GM offered the Volt like this in stock form, then you probably wouldn't even need to own the trailer. It would be something to consider in say five years when the warranty is over and enough Volts have crashed into trees for you to get a spare pack or two from a wrecker's. I think the volt is pretty close but I think people would realise after buying it that they are carrying round this big engine all the time for pretty much nothing except to go see grandma for Christmas. Its probably not something I would ever actually do, I was just thinking about what the ideal car for the mass market would be in terms of the concept.