Originally Posted by big john

Chevy Volt engine never starts if you keep the battery charged. If you don't use any gas in a year the engine will start and after it consumes a part of the fuel and you add new fuel it resets and you can go another year. This perplexes some customers and we had a guy insisting that we override the feature so it wouldn't use any gas. I guess to him, buying 6 or 8 gallons of gas in a year was more than he could bear.

When it goes into that mode there is a message on the screen that informs the driver. I guess some people don't look at the screen or don't know what it means because they bring the car in and complain about the engine coming on.