lease a volt for 369/month?!

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Definitely. The leaf is pretty much a 2nd car, as in you have a conventional car still. You can't plan life around 30 miles of driving. That pretty much means anybody in the Northwest suburbs can't make it to downtown Chicago for work, kind of a waste. Where as the volt would only use gas the last 5 miles or so..... charge it while at work, and make ir most of the way home. Eliminating range anxiety puts the ball in chevy's court for sure.
 

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Even if you never "require" gasoline, the volt will run the engine in maintnence mode for a few minutes (to lubricate the top end) at least once a month, and if you havent used all the gas in a year it will do whatever it can to get rid of the stale old gas so that you have to refill. Also, if you charge it everyday and drive 12,000 miles/yr on pure electricity, it uses less electricity than a typical refrigerator (you'll never notice it on your electric bill in other words). Not only that, but if you drive one they are pretty damn quick. Likely the fastest econo car out there.
 

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But don't you get a huge tax credit for buying one instead of leasing? Thought I remember reading that it's some ridiculous number
$7500 tax credit, the problem is that the car still winds up costing you $35k+.

Nice car, but pricey at $35k. I test drove one in the past. It cost less than $2 to fully charge it and we were looking at installing a solar system this year that would make that cost $0, but the car is too costly to justify financially (from a gas saving standpoint). I will look into the lease though, especially if there is basically $0 outlay initially. I even ran 220V power to the garage in case I wanted to install the faster charger for it (if I ever bought one).

The car is actually really nice to drive, especially for a small vehicle. If they got it down to under $30k (after government rebate), I'd consider one. I've been seeing more and more of them on the road.
 
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