Next Achievement

We're working on our next achievement level on voltstats.net which is total miles driven on the same tank of gas, we're up over 1800 miles now since our last fill-up and if we can make it to 2k that will be level 2, what's also neat about that is the time between fill-ups, we haven't put gas in the volt since April 9th, nearly 2 months ago...and we still have half a tank left!  I might have to get the manual out to remember how to put gas in it by the time we fill up again.  ;-)

Actions/Reactions from others

Another thing happened today that I thought would make for a good blog topic, the actions/reactions from other people.
So far we've had a few our of the norm things take place, here are some examples of what driving a volt has triggered that with an ICE wouldn't happen unless it was possibly a Ferrari or some other exotic show car.

• Taking a picture of the license plate "PLUGITIN", multiple times.
• A guy signing to his deaf kid what the license plate says and then giving a "thumbs up" (yes it was a thumb and not a finger)
• A long conversation struck in a parking lot mostly about "how it drives" and not anything about how energy efficient it is.
• Someone taking a picture of the Plug on the side of the car while it was charging at the public charge station (today which triggered this blog topic)

Haven't had anything funny happen yet, I'm guessing I'll eventually get asked something like "what kind of electricity does that thing take", or "how do you change the batteries", or "were the batteries included"......I will definitely make a dedicated post for something like that.

VoltStats.net Achievements

We just completed our 3rd level for Electric Miles without gas....we had some extra driving today and had to use .2 gallons of gas, not bad for going 680 miles without using any gas!!!
Here's a screenshot of the latest achievements on voltstats.net

Maybe after we win the Lotto

Saw this parked outside a local coffee shop, maybe after we win the Lotto we can head to a local coffee shop at 10 am in our Tesla with the top off....

We have TWO Volts!!!

We now have a second volt, it's the funny greenish color (Viridian Joule Tricoat)!!!!

OK, so those of you who notice things in pictures real quick you'll realize that we don't park it on a wood grain floor...that's because this is a 1/18 scale volt that the Volt Adviser Team sent us, not really sure why, but it's pretty cool and will sit nicely with my 1/18 and 1/24 scale corvettes.

As seen below it even comes with a little fast charger (which sara has already broke) and is highly detailed, has a portable charger in the trunk just like the full size.

Stats Update:
As for the full scale 1:1 red volt, our stats are doing better now that we got it back, they had to replace a Battery Regulator.  We actually feel like the range and miles per kilowatt hour are doing better than before it was serviced.  We're back up to about 109 MPG lifetime, we're currently working on our latest achievement award in voltstats.net for miles driven without gas (over 400 miles), we also haven't put gas in it since we got back from vacation in April.

Anyway, thanks for reading the blog, sorry you have insomnia or such boredom that you have to read my mess, but thanks anyway!!!