Reply #5: Does that mean that the Volt runs off the battery for ~40 miles and then the

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generator starts? So that, as long as you plugged it in every <40 miles it would burn no gas?

For a comparison with gas vehicles, how much gas would it burn if you just drove the 300 miles in one go; what is the gas mileage (if it's fair to call it that)?

I find this pretty attractive, since we do a lot of <40 mile drives, but will go on 100+ mile trips more than once a month. I can easily imagine that some of the roads we drive would have lots of miles between plugs, which would make me very uncomfortable with all electric...