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A Chevy Volt would be perfect for your use case. Disclosure: happy Volt owner that my wife drives 95% around town with the occasional 120-300 mi road trip.

• readhn 8y ago
  A colleague of mine bought 2x 2018 Chevy Volts recently - after all rebates came out to $18000 cash each for a brand new Volt. Thats a no brainer to me - at 2000$ gas / year - the car pays for itself in 10 years. Unfortunately for most people out there the economics does not work the same way - they cant get to this pricing. But if they could USA would have a much larger share of electric cars.
  • d1zzy 8y ago
    I'm curious, how do you get a $33k MSRP Volt down to $18k? Was it second hand? (if it was then you don't get any federal/state credits, those are claimed by the original owner)
    • readhn 8y ago
      yes brand new cars - combination of federal and state rebates on electric cars. if this was available to everyone - we'd have a much larger share of electric cars in USA TODAY. pretty much buy one get one free in this case - two great electric cars for the price of one. INSANE.
• ed_balls 8y ago
  It's not sold in Europe. You can buy Prius plugin hybrid, new Corolla hybrid, BMW 330e etc.
  • rebuilder 8y ago
    It was, as the Opel Ampera. You can find them used.
  • jacquesm 8y ago
    Opel Ampera.
    • ed_balls 8y ago
      It's not sold any more since PSA bought them.
      • jacquesm 8y ago
        It's perfectly ok to buy a second hand vehicle.
        • ed_balls 8y ago
          Absolutely, but the raport was about new cars. In this cause I'd be cautious. The access to spare parts could be limited in the future.
• madshiva 8y ago
  Chevrolet have a really bad reputation in Switzerland.
• addflip 8y ago
  Unfortunately GM has decided to discontinue the Volt. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chevy-volt-discontinued-chevrolets-last-volt-rolls-off-the-assembly-line/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chevy-volt-discontinued-chevrol...