I have a buddy from the gym who has a VOLT and he won’t shut-up about it.
His driving is VERY town-centric so he has made a claim he can fill it up (a hybrid) and since he’s always on electricity it’s likely that at the end of 3 months the gasoline tank is at least HALF full.
And the cost for the electricity he charges it with overnight makes 1 mile traveled cost him something like $0.05, or something.
Check in with him when he needs a new battery for that thing down the road......
My brother and his wife are on their second Volt and are town-centric like your example. For them, it fits. I’m 75 now and still drive sports cars; a British Racing Green Mazda Miata. I get 40 MPG on the highway.
The Volt is based on the Cruze chassis. The equilibrium point where the cost is overridden by the efficiency of fuel is somewhere around 300,000 miles. For a town car, a 1980 Chevy Caprice is a better overall value.
I have a beater Saturn that gets 32mpg so @ $2 gallon it costs me $0.06 / mile. I guess I can just save my $40K for something else :)