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The Chevy Volt was introduced with much fanfare and became a media darling. I never see, read or hear anything about it now -- at least not in our area.

 

Did it just not catch on, or are there other reasons it seems to have disappeared?

 

My mind is wandering more than usual today... ^_^

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My understanding is that it costs the taxpayers $50k for each one sold....another great idea from GM/Obama....

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Nah, if I can get my mind organized -- which is always a challenge.... Umm, what was the topic? :lol:

 

Heck if I know, my mind didn't even bother coming to work with me today, it started vacation a day early! :blink:

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Is this another shameless plug for the volt?

I'm shocked, sir, simply shocked you'd say such a thing! :lol:

 

Truthfully, I'm not a fan of the vehicle conceptually or the politics and taxpayer funds that go into it. I guess it's on my mind lately as Ford and GM have large assembly operations here (Kansas City area). As such, these plants and the parent companies are a frequent topic in the local media.

 

Anyway, lots of car/truck-related news in our area recently which is why the absence of the Volt seemed apparent to me today.

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It's a short circuit flash in the pan ideological blunder - I mean really....a car that costs about $17k being sold for $40k with very little infastructure....:lol:

 

GG ~ :FlagAm:

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I'm shocked, sir, simply shocked you'd say such a thing! :lol:

 

Truthfully, I'm not a fan of the vehicle conceptually or the politics and taxpayer funds that go into it. I guess it's on my mind lately as Ford and GM have large assembly operations here (Kansas City area). As such, these plants and the parent companies are a frequent topic in the local media.

 

Anyway, lots of car/truck-related news in our area recently which is why the absence of the Volt seemed apparent to me today.

 

Please sir, I was not attempting to make this political. ^_^

Ya right! :lol:

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I was rolling around 72-73 mph on the west end of James River Freeway in Springfield Missouri last Thursday evening when a Volt passed me like I was sitting still. He had to be doing well in excess of 85 mph.

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I believe I heard the other day that they have suspended production of the Volt.

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I believe I heard the other day that they have suspended production of the Volt.

That's what I read about a month ago. The reason is that they have plenty around that they still haven't sold. I've only seen a few on the road.

 

:) Rye

 

 

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Will admit it is a very nice looking car, but where I live at and how I would use it, even the salesman said that I would be better off with the Cruze. 50 miles one way would mean it would be running on gas for the last 10 miles and all the way home with mileage less than what my 05 Cobalt now gets.

 

At $35,000, that is more than $15000 more than a Cruze, which of course would buy a lot of gas, so the Volt as it is now would never pay for its self before it is worn out.

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Here is a good read on the VOLT....... :wacko: :wacko:

 

 

Subject: Dirty Little Secret Behind the Chevy Volt"

 

 

 

This is what happens when the government tries to run the marketplace.

 

The Chevy Volt MUST NOT be allowed to fail!

The "Dirty Little Secret Behind the Chevy Volt"

 

 

Patrick Michaels is a senior fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute and the editor of the forthcoming Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of our Government and our Lives, as well as the author of several other books on global warming. His Forbes column on the Chevy Volt is a case study in the nexus between big government corruption and big business subsidies. Michaels briefly recaps the consumer fraud in which GM has touted the Volt as an all-electric mass production vehicle on the supposed basis of which its sales receive a $7, 500 taxpayer subsidy , and it is still overpriced and unmarketable. Michaels notes that "sales are anemic: 326 in December, 321 in January, and 281 in February." Do you see a trend here?

 

Michaels adds that GM has announced a production run of 100, 000 in the first two years, and asks what appears to be a rhetorical question: "Who is going to buy all these cars?" But wait! Keep hope alive! There is a positive answer to the question. Jeffrey Immelt's GE will buy a boatload of those uneconomic GM cars. Here the case study opens onto the inevitable political angle: Recently, President Obama selected General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair his Economic Advisory Board. GE is also awash in windmills waiting to be subsidized so they can provide unreliable, expensive power. Consequently, and soon after his appointment, Immelt announced that GE will buy 50, 000 Volts in the next two years, or half the total produced.

Assuming the corporation qualifies for the same tax credit, we (you and me) just shelled out $375, 000, 000 to a company to buy cars that no one else wants, so that GM will not tank and produce even more cars that no one wants. And this guy is the chair of Obama's Economic Advisory Board?

 

Michaels includes this hilarious detail in his case study: In a telling attempt to preserve battery power, the car's heater is exceedingly weak. Consumer Reports tests averaged a paltry 25 miles of electric-only running , in part because it was testing in cold Connecticut. (The GM engineer at the Auto Show said cold weather would have little effect.) It will be interesting to see what the Volt's range is on a hot, traffic-jammed summer day, when the air conditioner will really tax the batteries. When the gas engine came on, Consumer Reports got about 30 miles to the gallon of premium fuel ; which, in terms of additional cost of high-test gas, drives the effective mileage closer to 27 mpg.

A conventional Honda Accord, which seats 5 (instead of the Volt's 4), gets 34 mpg on the highway, and costs less than half of what CR paid, even with the tax break.

The story of the GM Volt deserves a place in the Harvard Business School curriculum....but of course, it won't.

It's a classic tale of the GOVERNMENT deciding what the public needs, not the marketplace.

 

 

What is one of the reasons for this?

Why keep the UAW in business, because Obama owes them for his election. Starting to make sense yet?

 

 

 

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I believe I heard the other day that they have suspended production of the Volt.

They should recall all of the rest and send them to the recycler.

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The company that got a $150,000,000, plus $50,000 in tax relief from Obama to make the batteries has fur lowed it's employees and after 2 years has not made a single battery for the Volt. Your tax dollars at work :angry:

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