100 Million Miles in the Chevrolet Volt.......
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- No, that's not a typo. In the next couple of days, owners of the Chevrolet Volt will have driven a cumulative 100 million miles. That is more than 200 round trips to the moon.
Why is this significant? When the Chevrolet Volt was first conceived in 2006, and finally put into traffic in 2010 after four years of development and testing, one of the key questions was whether this radically new automotive propulsion architecture would be reliable. How frequent would repairs be in the first 150,000 miles? How about in the first 400,000 miles?
As important as fuel savings are, much of the future of electrified cars hangs on their reliability record. If a car like the Volt ends up with a bad rap due to parts that break down and keep it in the shop too much, that would risk soiling the reputation of all new automotive propulsion technologies. So we have to know where the Volt stands on this.
Back to the 100 million miles for a minute. You deserve to know where all of these numbers come from. General Motors(GM_) publishes the cumulative number of miles driven on its Volt Web site as they are reported real-time. How many cars are involved? Based on Chevrolet's production and sales numbers, we can estimate that it has manufactured around 35,000 Volts to date since November 2010.
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I've been seeing more & more of them in fact at Home Depot one almost ran me over I never heard it sneaking up on me. I had one on the NJ TPK in the outside lane outpacing me in my 440 Dodge. I was doing 75 mph or so.
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Are they tracking the cars in real time?
