Will I be able to maximize my electric range? So I am still getting 40 miles of range, give or take 5 or 6 miles depending on conditions, throughout the year. I have still yet to see anyone online convince me they are seeing any range degradation on a Volt, and I doubt I'll see anything until past 75k miles. And in actuality, it is better, as I have learned to drive the car more efficiently. While this still might be the case, at nearly 50k electric miles, my daily electric range is precisely where it was when I bought the car. As someone who charges 1.5 cycles a day, I was worried I would be pushing the limits of the battery and would be one of the first Volt owners to see less daily range. I nervously watched the Leaf owner forums when owners in hot climates started seeing their batteries degrade in hotter climates. So far the car is not expensive, nor have I had any problems requiring dealer intervention. I did my one and only oil change last month. My front two tires, which I have shamelessly ignored with only one rotation, will likely need replacing in about 6 or 7k miles. My brakes appear to be almost new, as I drive in Low almost all the time (it reduces the use of brakes to almost nothing). But nothing that required dealer service. I have connected to a bad electric vehicle service supply that threw some error codes, that had I not known better, would have resulted to me taking the car in.
Short of that, I haven't had any issues that required service. My car was one of the early Volts that needed the battery reinforcement upgrade. I have brought my car into the shop one time. Well, this is a major jinx, but I don't know any other way to say it. Will the car be expensive to maintain? Will I have a lot of problems? I have only changed the oil once with my volt, netting me an additional $540 in savings, or $18 a month. After 50,000 miles, I would have changed the oil 7 times with my other vehicles. Oil changes averaged around $90 a change. I changed my oil around 7,000 miles (using synthetic) for both my previous cars. You should also add in the cost of oil changes. Comparing this to the Volt, I am only spending about $40 a month in total fueling costs, netting me a savings of $160-$220 a month on fuel alone. So, had I kept driving either of those two cars, ignoring all other costs, I would have spent anywhere from $200-266 a month in fuel costs. The previous two cars I owned was a Mini Cooper that got around 32 MPG and a BMW Z3 2.8 that averaged a little less than 23 MPG. To compare those numbers above to my previous vehicles.
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