ATF fluid changes ARE Required.

I was wrong about the 20% figure.
It's 37%, for last night's trip. If I just use my home rate of $~0.12/kwh and gas at $3.10 locally/currently.

Last night it was cold, electric heater running in EV:
3.6 miles/kwh = $0.03/mile.
(In nice weather with no climate control load it can be much higher miles/kwh. And of course speed is the biggest factor, just like gas burners) (Some can get 6 mi./kwh, but these are the same hypermiling jerks you guys have here.) (My PR is 51 mi./10kwh on a leisurely Sunday morning joyride. {when you pay this much for fuel you can joyride again} But this was not hypermiling, I was at the posted speed limit of 55mph for quite a bit.)

Running in Gas only:
38 miles/gal. = $0.08/mile.
(This can be better. I got this on a 500mi. road trip, gas only, at +5mph the posted speed limit with AC. 80mph in OK.!)

I get to plug in at work to top off for the trip home, 48 mile RT. I don't know what the commercial rate is.
I did not account for any of this freebie in my original wrong post.

El Do,
Yes, I read this. I doubt I could have gotten this $250 Kit L2 EVSE and my cobbled 240V extension cord setup qualified for any tax incentive anyway.... Oh well. Some pay +$1500 to have an L2 charger installed.

What's a PiP like? Is it a 3 season EV? I know about the 62mph limit and limited acceleration. That's what got me to look at the Volt in the first place.

With 150HP/ 238ft/lb of torque on tap anytime, better handling and ride, the Volt is just what Lutz wanted,
A Leap in Technology!!!

 

Fellow tech nerds,
I updated the first post in this thread with new Oil Analysis reports.
I added a new ATF analysis from my buddy's Gen 3 w/104k mi. He got rid of the Gen2 that is shown in the reports.
His was similar to my original report in that the ATF was too dark to do the 'Particle count'.

Enjoy all the little numbers.
And some still believe Toyota when they say this is a lifetime fluid.....

 

He went with WS.
I'm telling him to change it again, at least at the next 10k engine oil change.
I recommend to keep changing it until you get a decent report. He added the magnet to the drain plug also.
He's a bank courier and racks up the miles. His Gen2 had 385k miles on it when he moved to a Gen3.

My Gen3 had Redline D6 in it when I sold it. That has a very similar viscosity to WS, but it is synthetic and not the generic house brand that toyota puts in their entire fleet.

 

tf,

This won't work on the plastic engine oil filter housing used on a Gen3.
Besides, we're talking about the transaxle and how the Gen3 doesn't have a stock magnetic drain plug like earlier models.

 

There is no reason to "modify the housing".
Add a super magnet to the drain plug ( post #1) or buy an aftermarket drain plug with a magnet installed (covered somewhere in this long thread).

You say you "have no issues". You are adding an added 'ferrous filter', but only oil analysis reports measure claims like this.

tf,
Have you changed the ATF on your Gen2?
If not, why not? Have a sample bottle ready to do an analysis. And you'll get to see your stock magnetic drain plug.

 

ATF on your Gen2?