I’ve been car shopping lately and thinking about what mileage I need in the new vehicle. The cars that I like and are more fun to drive hover just under 30mpg while the 35+ models tend to be a bit mushy on the gas (or tiny)
Today I came across this: http://www.comcast.net/articles/finance/20090811/US.GM.Volt.Mileage/
GM is unveiling a car that get 230MPG in the city! I thought that was awesome until I came across 3 facts
- That mileage is in City driving
- The car is not shipping yet (and all my projects are ‘bug free’ until they ship also)
- The car is $40k
I wrote up a quick app to let me calculate how many miles I have to drive in order to recoup the $40k price tag. Even comparing it against a $20k hybrid that gets 50 MPG I still have to drive almost 320,000 miles to break even! (at $4/gal)