Two years ago this weekend, Jeff Kaffee (pictured above) took possession of his keys and became the very first person in the U.S. to buy a Chevrolet Volt.
Since then, the retired pilot from Parsippany, New Jersey, has put almost 12,000 miles on his range-extended electric car–using just 26.1 gallons of gasoline while doing so.
That works out to a lifetime average of about 460 mpg, since most of those miles were covered on grid electricity.
via Venture Beat
December 18, 2012
He drove it across the continental US a bit.
Now of course it’s clamouring for new Microsoft runtime libraries and another 2GB of DDR (not really); still less than 6 quarts of newly minted oil.