Not sure where to start.
Sure having an electric car is a novelty, but once it wears off (like owning a useless convertible in Ontario LOL) I say let the early adopters get their Volts and learn what a pain in the *** it really is.
Your suggestion seems to fly in the face of the
statistics where the overwhelming majority of Volt owners report loving the car.
And as of the Consumer Reports wrap up this past Christmas
90% of Chevy Volt owners report they would buy it again.
So, sorry the facts don't fit your argument.
when you come home, say with a load of groceries, or screaming kids, a long tired day at work, etc. you forget to plug your damn charger in, then what? Then the range anxiety, no long trips!
On a Volt, You forgot to plug the charger in, then what? You start the car on gas and drive away. And you STILL get around 4.2-5.0L/100K. It sips fuel.
No long trips? Again, the Volt will run indefinitely on a dead battery no different than any other car so long as you gas it up...like any other car. And while running on gas with a depleted battery the regenerative braking will slowly charge it up, so it does come back into play regardless.
In the winter, and we have long cold ones, less mileage on the battery, and not being able to fully use the heater and defroster at comfy settings? What about if you don't have a garage or power point nearby? Even worse. Scru dat!
Sure the Volt has a gas engine, buts its like driving in "limp mode" when its running. Scru dat!
The 0=60 times (which are not exactly a slouch, it will out accelerate many small cars) are virtually identical in electric mode as they are in solely gasoline mode. Some reports measured the acceleration to be slightly *faster* on the ICE, for that matter.
So yes, again, your statements are wrong.
And again, if you bothered reading the responses, the heater "issues" are completely non issues.
For these reasons, and the fact I'm clearly a huge Honda fan, I stick to my original thoughts in this thread, for around the same cash, get yourself a EPA rated 50mpg Accord Hybrid, and you get all the pluses of a traditional car with lots of power, no heater defroster worries, no range anxiety (I mean if you run out of gas, CAA will bring you gas, as opposed to running out of charge and needing a tow)
I fixed that for you.
By the way, what was the answer to my earlier question on the replacement cost for the battery pack on the Accord Hybrid? People reading this thread would probably like to know since Consumer Reports
indicates a "shocking 33% failure rate" of the battery packs in a recent report.
Meanwhile, 7 years later,
original Volts are still running on original batteries with zero degradation issues - GM has never once had to replace a battery under warranty for your much feared degradation, and you need not look far online to find plenty of evidence that it's NOT an issue.
Listen, it's clear (as I mentioned previously) that you have a hate on for anything not a Honda (despite many of your stats being fueled by
questionable or blatantly incorrect information, see my responses above), but the reason I focused on the Volt from the onset was because I actually spent the time looking at the reliability aspect beforehand, with the practicality second, and the desire for a vehicle that could operate a good part of it's time as a pure EV also a big part of the equation.
On my number 1 priority in the above list, reliability, the Volt simply wins against the Civic and Accord and the pure EV functionality saving us gas money with every single kilometer we drive is also a no brainer. The hybrids simply can't match that, and as much as you continue to ignore my earlier posts with the simple to understand math that shows the Volt wins.
The ONLY thing the Accord wins on is if we never charged the Volt (ever) and drove it on gas for the entire time we owned it, which clearly is not the goal here. That's also assuming the Honda Hybrid isn't
in the shop every 12 months for battery failure, as well. 
