I Can Drive 55

As the title of this post implies, I woke up this morning to a new high number on my guess-o-meter.

That was great news. Then I drove to work and somehow still managed to hyper-mile just a little bit.

Here is what I ended up with.

Sorry for the photo quality there. It was really sunny out when I got to work.

Here is how many miles I went.

So that's 21.6 miles on only 19 miles of EV power. Not bad if I must say so myself. In the interests of full disclosure, I did take an all side road route and it was a little slow-going.

This achievement allowed me to walk out the door after work to this new high number on the guess-o-meter.

I just can't imagine that I can do a whole lot better in the heat of the Florida summer. I lost about a mile off that coming home but I'm sure I'll still get 55 or so tomorrow morning. We'll see. The 2015 Volt maxes out at 60 on the guess-o-meter even though there are many reports of folks getting over 60 miles on battery, especially when they have the benefit of a long trip downhill. But the meter won't show more than 60 and on model years before 2013, the meter won't show more than 50.

In other fun news, I'm well into the top 100 on VoltStats, hanging steady at 91 all day.

My highest ranking is 81 for electric driving efficiency.

I would hope it would be higher, but I move up a little every day. Another fun stat - I've made it to level three in miles-without-using-gas:

I would probably be at a higher level if it were not for the three miles I had to run on gas two weeks ago when we ran a massive law enforcement exercise on campus and the lots with charging stations were all closed.

If there is more exciting guess-o-meter news tomorrow, I'll share it, but in any case I'm working on something about charging in Central Florida, and I'm hoping that will be ready. Charge on, Volt fans!