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I have had a Volt since 2012, and typically fill it up about once every 4 months.

3 days? I make it 2 weeks in a 20 year old car. Sure, if you're doing a lot of driving it won't last 6 months. But for typical everyday use, I bet that's not an exaggeration (certainly not for my use).

>I make it 2 weeks in a 20 year old car.

I used to go for two weeks between fill-ups in a '78 Buick but that was mostly becuase it had a 24-gallon tank (and I only drove about 20 miles a day).

Was that a round trip? That's 71 miles to the gallon if so. If not then it's 35 miles per gallon which sounds pretty dreadful.

How would you compute the MPG for that? You have no idea where in Maine they drove to. From Boston to the northernmost town in Maine is 475 miles, so that would be 68 MPG one way.

I think that stat is for people who use the car for their daily commute recharging the batteries overnight.