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Originally Posted by rice_classic
While that does make sense, the majority of people commute less than 40 miles to and from work.
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And that is one way to work for me, so I'd be running on gas at least half the time, hence me wondering what I was wondering...
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Originally Posted by rice_classic
IMHO, the VOLT only did 3 things wrong, otherwise I would own one.
1: It's ugly but not too ugly to own, until you get inside of it. It's interior is on par with that of the Mazda 2 or any other econobox IMO.
2: This low-tier interior could be forgiven if the price was $20-25k. (kind of like how I forgive the FRS for its somewhat awful interior.) So yeah, the Volt needed to be more affordable.
3: The "generator" needed to be a more efficient and fuel conscious power plant. AKA: Diesel... better yet, diesel that is compatible with bio-diesel. Talk about being an environmentally friendly car. For 40 miles I don't need to burn a drop of fuel and when I do I burn fuel from French Fry grease and generate electrons more efficiently then doing it from petrol.
And there's the conundrum... If they addressed issues (1) and (3) they would worsen issue (2) significantly.
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I agree it should have been a diesel rather than gas. I don't know if there is any disadvantage of diesel over gas in a long term storage tank.
Your buddy, for example, does need to worry about water in the fuel. Fuel in a partially filled tank will gain water through condensation and the water is going to sink (heavier than gas).
This doesn't happen in a full tank. I realize its not quite the same, but I have personally drained a gallon of water out of a Cessna 172 tank that was parked for a month without the tanks being topped off. Top them off, it doesn't happen.