Using gas Only, what is the MPG of the Chevy Volt?

[youdontknowme]

If you run out of electricity for the Chevy Volt, what if the Miles Per Gallon for the car only using gasoline?

[LeAnne]

Honestly, who really knows? After the Chevy EVO fiasco, it's hard to believe anything that comes out of GM's marketing department.

[Wes]

An analysis by GM-Volt.com, an unofficial site that is not affiliated with G.M., runs the numbers this way: The E.P.A. city cycle is just over 11 miles, so the Volt would run 40 miles gas free, then go through an 11-mile cycle with the gas engine running in “charge-sustaining mode.” If we assume the Volt gets 50 miles a gallon in that mode (based on the number G.M. cited for its concept vehicle in 2007), then it would use .22 gallons of gas in 11 miles, the equivalent of 231.8 m.p.g.