The swirls of matte-finish plastic and tasteful chrome accents convey motion and excitement, while the colorful dash panels provide all the information you need to monitor your driving. My Premier tester had the upgraded features you’d expect and felt much plusher than the first-generation car. The Volt comes in two levels-LT and Premier.
Chevrolet claims that “on average, new owners of the Volt travel 1,100 miles between fill-ups with regular charging (based on 2016-2018 model-year owners.)” I didn’t take any long weekend trips, so during my week-long test I used exactly zero gasoline. My 18-mile-each-way commute was easily handled, using the ChargePoint Level 2 (240-volt) chargers at work and household current at home overnight. My test Pacific Blue Metallic 2019 Chevrolet Volt proved the point. An All-Electric Commute The interior is upscale and filled with tech You could use this arrangement to go hundreds of miles, so the range anxiety of the Leaf’s 73-mile range was not a factor. Unlike a traditional hybrid, the car was essentially an all-electric powered car, but when it ran out of juice, the small engine kicked in to charge the battery, not to drive the wheels. Based on research that said that most car owners don’t drive more than about 40 miles a day, GM provided the Volt with a compact battery pack and included a small gasoline engine as a range extender. While the Leaf jumped into the EV market with both feet, the Volt was a calculated compromise. A hatchback masquerading as a sedanĮlectric vehicles entered the automotive marketplace at the beginning of this decade, when Nissan’s all-electric Leaf and GM’s first-generation Volt arrived with big fanfare. Now in the fourth year of its redesigned and improved second generation, the Volt, despite its high-tech powertrain, is the latest in GM’s long history of compacts, from the Corvair to the Chevy II, Nova, Cavalier and Cobalt. The Volt is a hatchback that looks like a sedan, which puts it at a disadvantage in the American car market, where crossovers are becoming king. It may be good news, though, if GM does what it promises and doubles its investment in the all-electric vehicles it will introduce in the next decade. That’s unwelcome holiday news for the plant workers, but reflects business reality-the Volt has never been a big seller. During the very week I was testing the 2019 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, GM announced that it was closing the Detroit-Hamtramck plant where it’s built, in March, 2019.
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