The Volt, driving to Boston from Hudson, NY

Room with large Roman Goddess statue, MFA Boston.

I took a road trip last week, driving to Boston via the Mass Pike on Tuesday morning, and made very good time, arriving at the Museum of Fine Arts a little after 2pm.  I left with a full charge, which read 38 miles of battery life, and stayed in normal mode until I got to Rt. 66 outside of Hudson, where I switched to Hold mode to save the battery for when I arrived in Boston. Good thing I did it turns out.  I stayed in Hold mode on the highway until I was taking the exit off the Pike into city driving, when I switched to Normal mode, going electric in town.
After going to the Museum of Fine Arts, I then went to a garage near the hotel where I was staying, that I'd found through Chargepoint, a service which you sign up for that operates EV charging stations across the country I think. Certainly in the Northeast.  I found my way to the EV charging stations and one was available, however I couldn't figure out how to make it work. Turns out the app isn't enough, you have to have a card that the station scans to release the plug. (I did call after I got home, and it turns out you can use the app, but no directions were on it to tell you how, and this garage was underground and that feature depends upon GPS location services. I could also have called, but who knew? I certainly didn't at the time) The garage attendant attempted to help, they have a card that allows access, but their card didn't work. So I was unable to charge my car in Boston, despite there being a charge station. That was very frustrating.  Good thing I saved my battery, when I parked for the night I still had twenty miles of range left.
The next day, I drove to the Harvard Art Museums, electric all the way, and parked there, again no charging stations were available for the public, Harvard parking has a few but they are available only to Harvard faculty and students.  But I still have enough battery life to get me out of the city driving. On the return trip, once beyond the traffic on the Mass Pike, I switched to Hold mode with only 6 miles of charge left on the battery, saving it for when I got closer to Hudson, where I then went back to normal and exhausted the charge.
Overall, for the return trip to Boston and Cambridge of 370 miles, I got 46 miles to the gallon, including the electric charge I started out with. That doesn't matter to me, since the electricity came from my solar panels, and is carbon free energy. The whole point of this exercise is to reduce the carbon I use in my life, and the solar panels have allowed me to do that, along with the Volt.
I am loving the Volt now that the weather is warmer, the mileage is now what I was expecting, and even more.  It is like having two cars, an electric car for short range local driving and a gas car for longer trips that still gets good MPG.  A pretty neat trick that Chevrolet has pulled off, and a good intermediate vehicle for this transitional time when we go from fossil fuels to electricity for transport.  The infrastructure isn't there yet for worry free all electric travel, thus the Volt is perfect for now.

Above is a shot of the driver information screen showing that I had 40 miles of battery life to start my day with! That exceeds the 35 to 38 miles per full charge that the 2013 model was advertised to have.  The warmer weather and low resistance tires designed for the Volt makes a big difference!