Seen in the wild
In The City (My The City), you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Nissan Leaf. However, here’s the first Volt I’ve seen that wasn’t owned by the dealer:
Still had the sticker on it so maybe it wasn’t owned either.
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May 16th, 2012 at 9:35 am
Not sure about your state but in mine (Virginia) that would be a dealer plate. Also, the fact that it’s stuck on the body instead of in the license plate location tells me it is magnetic. Once the car is titled to a customer the dealer plate has to come off.
May 16th, 2012 at 9:36 am
But it could also be temporary. I’m guessing not sold.
May 16th, 2012 at 10:20 am
Saw one in the Wild north of Boston Yesterday. Some idiot in my town bought it.
I wanted to say to the woman driving it: “Enjoy you car, bitch, I paid for it!”
May 16th, 2012 at 11:08 am
I’m telling you they got to have them make some noise. I darn near got run over by one getting my mail at the post office.
Perhaps its me being old school but in a parking area I look for present cars first, then listen for engines running so as to not get backed up on. I’m in the snow belt so electric is not that common. Suddenly I had a car moving backwards at me without a sound.
May 16th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Saw one on the highway in NJ (with PA plates, I believe)just last month. Looked privately owned to my eyes.
May 16th, 2012 at 11:49 am
Dont think thats a private owned car… Its plate is on a rubber plateholder just wedged in the trunk… Plus the D first letter “may” indicate dealer… Did anyone notice the totally staged Volt repo on one of thise stupid repo shows on TruTV? Dont know what Chevy was thinking on that!!!
May 16th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
We have a bunch I see around here in DC. A few are driven by politicians, and a few are driven by union officials. What’s interesting to me is my neighbor John Dingell (D-Detroit) doesn’t have one (his wife runs the GM lobby shop and her family has its own class of GM stock).
May 16th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
In my travels about the oh-so green Citeh of Portland, I have seen one Volt (registered private) and several Leafs. My local Kroger store (Fred Meyer hereabouts) put in two charging stations last fall, but I have never seen an electric car at either one of them.
May 16th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
There’s a Cracker Barrel in West Knoxville with EV charging stations. Somehow I don’t think there’s a lot of overlap in those two demographics.
May 16th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Lumpy, I’d advise you to be extra careful in that Post Office lot, because there’s about to be a year’s worth of Volts there. All with “Marvin Runyon’s nose” on the side. Look out for solar arrays falling off the roof, too.
May 16th, 2012 at 5:16 pm
I was amazed to see one north of Indianapolis some weeks back. “They do exist!”
May 16th, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Is it on fire already or is that a dirty windshield?
And yes, those are Tennessee Dealer plates.
May 17th, 2012 at 9:23 am
There’s a Cracker Barrel in North Knox that also has a charging station, as does the Three Rivers Co-op on N Central. Have not seen any charging, but I have seen 2 in the wild (at least one I recall had a non-dealer plate). I work for a natural gas provider and took our natural gas car to an earth day event and was parked next to a dealer Volt (aside from the whole .gov involvement and absurd cost, not a bad-looking car, but a stupid idea).