CHEVROLET VOLT 2012 FULL REVIEW - CAR AND DRIVING

Leave aside the arguments about cost effectiveness for a moment. The big reason most UK car buyers haven't switched to electric vehicles is pretty simple to grasp. They're worried about running out of juice on some wet and windy moorland or in a bad neighbourhood of town. Potential buyers picture their daughters borrowing an electric car, getting stranded somewhere and then promptly buy a diesel instead. Chevrolet realised it didn't have to be this way with its Volt electric car. Here was a vehicle that you could happily run after plugging it into the mains and charging the batteries, but when those batteries went flat, you had the belt and braces approach of a 1.4-litre petrol engine to ensure that you never found yourself stranded. It ought to have been a sales winner but it wasn't. Does it make a better used buy than it ever did a new one? Read on to find out.