which means that there's a 35 mile electric range and when you run out of battery power a gas engine engages which powers the electric motors at the front of the vehicle now this is the first year of the Chevy Volt which was produced from 2011 to 2015 and then in 2016 Chevy came out with the second generation model now given that this is the first year of the bolt it's a pretty good year to look at because a lot of times the main issues with electric vehicles occur.

right at the beginning of production now overall it's been a very reliable vehicle there have been very few repairs or issues with it I've got  that goes over the actual repairs that have been done to this vehicle since it was brand new so in this video I wanted to talk more about that long-term durability and the life of the range so this has 73,000 miles on it and there's been almost no reduction in the battery life on the vehicle when I was researching the purchase of this vehicle I also found statistics I don't know whether that's changed or not that suggests that Chevy has not replaced a single battery pack in any volts since they started production now there's a really interesting website.

I'm going to jump there in just a minute and show you that site really great website to look at if you're looking at getting a bolt has a lot of information it's called bolt stats dotnet and what it is is it's a website that tracks real time mileage and efficiency information from many volt owners and you're able to compare different volts the total mileage their efficiency percentage that's run on electric range and on that website there's a two thousand twelve volt that's owned by gentlemen in Ohio and he's put three hundred and seventy eight thousand miles on his volt as of the date.

he's got a two hundred and twenty mile commute charges his battery at home and then when he gets to work for his trip home and looking at looking into his story a little bit he says that he's seen no no or very little reduction in his electric range since buying a vehicle and it seemed very high malphur gallon rating.

so I'll jump there in just a minute and show you some of those statistics but like I said on on my volt I've seen very few issues since it was brand new and the battery life seems to be plenty long to last the life of the rest of the components on the vehicle so this is the home page of volt stats dotnet and if you go down to this listing here you can see that there's a number of Chevy Volts that owners have registered on this website in many different states and you can sort by state evey miles total miles percent.