Comment Re:It's a clam, folks (Score 1) 366
There is a cool statistical result known as German tank problem
This seems more like one of the successful KGB misinformation campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s.
Are you refering to that stunt when Russians claimed that a bunch of BBC's senior staff members were on MI6 payroll? For that case, current consensus is that it was actually true.
What's happening is that degradation is being hidden from you. Volt's battery is much bigger than needed for the purpose - they over-provisioned it because cycling of a smaller battery kills it really fast.
So as the battery degrades, cycles start to grow at faster and faster rate (even when you're keeping the exact same driving routine). So when that point comes that the car can no longer hide the overall state of the battery, your electric range will start dropping like a rock.
Actually, regardless, money becomes an issue really fast anyway - few days ago Wired run a story that for many types of loads AWS does not make much financial sense anymore and people started to add two and two together. In other words - people are prepared to pay only so much (in a pinch a little bit extra) - ask a little bit more and they'll start to roll their own.
The first rule of diversification: don't put your eggs into correlating baskets.
In this context it means that if your primary is on AWS, then your secondary must be on Rackspace or whatever - NOT other AWS.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.