Alexandra Paul challenges Volt owners to help create a video-based owner-generated User Guide. Check out the list of features below, grab your Flipcam or video camera, and upload your videos at Chevrolet Voltage - Owner Stories. Pick as many individual features as you want, and upload one video for each one. We’ll compile the best ones into a video-based User Guide; a much better way to learn how to use your Volt!
- Turning the car on
- Understanding the efficiency ball
- Understanding the other information on the instrument panel
- How and when to apply the pedestrian-friendly alert
- Using your keyless remote
- Using your Volt mobile app
- How to fill ‘er up.
- Uploading music to your Volt
- Switching between operating modes
- Operating the stereo
C’mon – grab those Flipcams and be a part of history!
Comments (2)
I live in a valley. I only commute about once per week but my commute is about 55 miles each way. Every way out of valley is 5% grade or more and the grades usually peak about at about 1/2 of the drive. I have to go over one of them to get to work.
In Normal Node I get about 32 miles on a charge. I reach the top of a grade and regenerate down the other side, picking up about 5 to 6 miles of charge. 12 or 13 miles before my destination my Volt switches to gas. There’s my Volt in beautiful Santa Barbara with no place to charge and 55 miles to get home. The dash says that I usually get less than 50 mpg this way.
Look what happens in Mountain Mode! I drive the same route and use about the same amount of fuel. But when I get there I have between 12 or so miles of charge when I turn the car back on in Normal Mode. I can drive around Santa Barbara or park the car and not worry about the batteries overheating. Then, I put it in Mountain Mode for the return trip.
If I use Mountain Mode to go up the hills and switch to Normal Mode to go down I seem to collect more regenerative power and have better mileage. I might switch 3 or 4 times on a commute. I don’t let the Normal Mode charge indicator go below 10 miles. The difference is that I get well over 68 mpg this way.