The tire has broken cords and has separated.

I took the tire in to Jacks Tire and Oil, they unmounted the tire and found that the steel cords had broken and separated from the casing.  They have ordered a new tire for me that matches the OEM Goodyear tires that came with the Volt. The new tire will be here tomorrow afternoon. This makes for an excellent time to rotate the tires.

South Hills Trip to see Humming Bird Migration Feeders. Right Front Tire Punctured

We shortly after driving away from the Hummer Feeding area.

I noticed the low tire indicator showed the Right Front tire at 16 Lbs.
We pulled off the road at Bear Gulch Campground.

This is what I found...

It appeared as though the tire was punctured.  I put a plug in it to get us home.
I will take it in the the tire shop in the morning for a permanent repair.

The Icons on the pump and sealant settings was not familiar to me. The Volt Owners Manual needs a picture that shows the pump and tire sealant selector positions with matching the icons. Has any one felt the same?

Twin Falls to Declo, ID on a full battery charge.

Today, we went from our home here in TF to Declo and decorated our family graves.
We started out with a full battery charge, 37 miles anticipated battery range.
We drove the old Highway 30, with the cruise set at 55 MPH, or the speed limit.
I made the whole trip with the Range selector set in LOW, to maximize the regeneration when coasting and braking.
I started the trip, in the Normal Mode, and drove in this Mode until the Battery Range Meter said that I had 12 miles remaining.
At this point I switched to Mountain Mode, the engine is now running powering the car AND recharging the HV battery.
I continued driving at 55 MPH with cruise control on for about 10 minutes in Mountain Mode.
I have found that the Mountain Mode typically builds the HV battery back up at 2 miles for every 5 minutes of driving.  This recharging rate of the battery is not set in stone because of radiations in road elevation.

I now switched back to the Normal Mode and observed that the HV battery had been recharged to an anticipated range of 13 Miles.  I now drove in the Normal Mode until the HV battery was again down to 10 Miles remaining, where upon I switched back to Mountain Mode.

I did this several times in the 45 minute drive and I did not make my switch into the Normal Mode if I was driving up a hill or on a stretch of road that had a visible elevation increase.
I am not sure if this holds true if the elevation is dropping, if it is better to stay in Mountain or to go back into Normal.  I don't know precisely which Mode, MM or NM will give me the most regeneration.
At this time I feel that going down hill in MM gives the best HV battery recharge for the same period of time.
But, I need to try this several more times to be sure.

Okay, here are today"s results.
I arrived home with 1 Mile remaining on the HV battery, which is what I wanted to do.
I wanted to use up (as much as possible, with out the gas engine coming on this last time) all of the HV battery charge as possible before I arrived home.
Nice! We squeaked in with 1 Mile remaining on the HV battery.
The 239.4 Miles on the trip odometer includes the miles from our fuel fillup in Snowville, UT on our way home.
The main point of this display is to show that we arrived home today with 1 mile remaining.

This display is showing the information on this HV battery charge.
We have driven 127.1 Miles on this charge, 83.6 on the Hv battery and 43.5 Miles on gasoline.
We used 10kWh of electricity or $1 ($.10/kWh) and we used 1.78 gallons of gas.
The display says that we achieved 71.0 MPG!
This gets complicated, to me anyway, because we are using gas to drive the car and recharge the battery that  both get you down the road.
But, this looks pretty impressive!

52 MPG, 143.6 Miles on Battery, round trip Snowville, UT to Twin Falls, ID (Home)

This is the total for mileage from Snowville, Ut to Twin Falls, Idaho (home)
We filled up in Snowville, Prem. $3.83 / Gallon and this is the totals for the drive home from there.

This is the trip totals, for the round trip, Twin Falls, ID to Logan, UT.

OH, and I forgot to plug in the car last night, so we started on our trip this morning with only 11 miles available on the battery.
I tried a different way of driving using the Normal and the Mountain Modes in combination.
Look at the trip mileage on this beginning with a partial charge!
52 MPG for 452 Miles!
This looks very promising!
I will do this again beginning with a full battery charge and see how it comes out.

Finally, 50 Miles Anticipated Range!

This is a first for us in our Volt!
50 Miles Anticipated Battery Range!
We have been hanging around 48 to 49 miles for several days, finally made it to 50!!

60th Birthday in Farr West, Ut.

We went to Farr West, UT. for my 60th Birthday.
Here are some pictures of the trip display.
We arrive in Farr West, better put some fuel in before we head back home.

The Kiddos put on a real fun birthday for Grandpa!
Thank you for the sweet and thoughtful cards!

Thank You!!,  Daryl and Nicole and Kids!
We got home and this is the display for the trip home all on gas.
44 MPG
and 49 MPG for the whole trip.

April Mileage Totals

Here we are at May 1st.
Volt miles, 11633
Today's Kw Meter 1447.6
April 1st Kw Meter 1168.7
Kw used in April, 279
Electric cost $.10 X 279 = $27.90
Information from Volt Stats my vehicle #4116
Gasoline MPG for April = 105 MPG