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Oh, by the way: I don't have a dog in this fight. I have no vested interest in CermaLube, and please, PLEASE don't think that I am advocating this oil.

Gents, In my package of MicroGreen filters, they stuffed a single sheet for CermaLube oil. They gave a website, www.CermaLube.com with information about their oil. As far as I can tell, the key to their oil is nano Silicon Carbide (SiC) and they make a whole bunch of crazy claims (Increased...

Originally Posted By: exranger06 Have you had any problems filling it with gas? I used to occasionally drive a company car Volt, and every time I tried to put gas in it, the gas pump would shut off immediately as if the tank was full. I went to several gas stations and had the same issue at...

Originally Posted By: Cujet ...I'd love an EV, and, "I think" one with reasonable range (say 150 miles) coupled with an emergency engine for, you guessed it, emergencies... would work for my uses. It would use electrical power 100% of the time, but put me at no risk of being stranded. For me...

Originally Posted By: L_Sludger I have an i3. Would you believe that I took an 1800-mile round trip road trip with it? (I wouldn't recommend doing that) Ug! At 70 miles per tank, that's about 26 stops for a tiny tank of gas. The Volt would be 6 stops for gas (300 miles per tank). These are rough...

Originally Posted By: JHZR2 What percentage and range of state of charge does the battery use? What was the new and current ESR? I believe the battery is rarely charged above 85%, and rarely discharged below 20%. There is a little bit of head room to permit regenerative braking of a fully...

Originally Posted By: Cujet I regularly get to drive Tesla's and occasionally the Volt, Leaf and others. I'm absolutely convinced modest electric cars can make sense for most owners. Knowing your Volt has limited EV only range, what do you consider as a minimum range to be practical? A...

Originally Posted By: oliveoil What is the oil change interval (OCI) on your car? I understand it's not very often per the OLM. OLM determines the oil change interval. If you run it mostly electric, then the OLM only decreases by about 1% per week. This is to make sure that you change the oil...

Originally Posted By: goodtimes Did you apply for the PGE $500 rebate? If the first owner didn't, you may qualify if you have PGE, What oil filter will you use? I noticed the 12 cent/gal tax hike on gas also means a $100 per year license fee on EV vehicles since they use the roads but don't use...

Originally Posted By: Reddy45 What are the temps of the liquid cooling system for the battery? Does it rely on the AC system to provide the heat exchange, since I don't imagine a Volt has a radiator and fan like a gasoline engine? The Volt has 3 liquid cooling systems. The first is a regular...

Originally Posted By: SatinSilver How long will you keep it and is the second gen that much better? I usually keep cars to 100-200k miles. One of the reasons I got the Volt is GM liquid cools the battery and doesn't charge or discharge the battery too much. This makes it last longer. GM hasn't...

Folks, I own a 2015 Chevy Volt (1st generation range-extended electric car). I'm also an electrical engineer, so I have some insight into how the car works. Feel free to ask any questions and I'll try to come up with answers worth at least what you paid for them.

Originally Posted By: rrounds Is there a web site that gives out just the Ultra filter numbers so I could check the size of each filter. I looked a the Fram web site but could not find what I wanted. ROD Try www.oilfilterdata.com Not exactly what you want, but likely to be helpful.

Originally Posted By: oil_film_movies ...I'm extra careful though, always using an oil filter with a silicon ADBV & an all-glass-fiber or glass/paper blend media. Fram Ultra is the best to use for these 1-year oil changes, no more than 20k miles of course. Silicon = An element, a glass hard...

Originally Posted By: 2000RX300 I ordered 4 jugs of the EP online and I'll be picking it up at my local Walmart tomorrow. Mobil has some rebates going on, check their website for details.

Originally Posted By: UncleDave Originally Posted By: kohnen Originally Posted By: UncleDave ...It is quite unique with the PTFE micro disk. If you go look up PTFE filtering you'll find reams of data that supports the material filtering capabilities. Earlier filters I've dissected have had PTFE...

Originally Posted By: UncleDave ...It is quite unique with the PTFE micro disk. If you go look up PTFE filtering you'll find reams of data that supports the material filtering capabilities. Earlier filters I've dissected have had PTFE filters in them. The more recent filters, however, have...

Originally Posted By: Phishin Everything you're asking is frivolous. That may be. I'm not worried about Dexos G1 vs G2 for my Volt, because it's a non-turbo, non direct-injected engine. I'm more curious than anything else about this. As for the 1 year vs. 2 years, the reason I'm asking this...

Gents, I've seen the common question: What is an oversized filter for filter ? I've found a website, OilFilterData.com, that makes answering this question really, REALLY easy. Thought you folks might want to know about it - I found exploring around the site to be most illuminating.

Gents, I have two questions. I've asked Exxon Mobil, and their inability to actually answer them is hilarious. So, I'd like y'all to take a crack at them: 1) Does Mobil 1 5W-30 Annual Protection, as is currently being sold, meet the Dexos1 Generation 2 specification? 2) Exxon Mobil makes a big...