The Chevy Volt- the electric car of the future is selling like Lindsey's Lohan's book on rehab. ain't no one buying it.
From fenderbender.com "Sales of Chevrolet’s Volt were down 40 units in February compared to January sales, according to the company’s monthly sales report.
GM sold 321 of the new plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in January and 281 in February. The numbers were released shortly after GM announced plans to make the Volt available nationwide by the end of the year.
At the end of January, the car had been delivered to customers in the Washington, D.C. area, California, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Texas. Deliveries to Michigan are planned this spring and the car is supposed to be available nationwide during the second quarter of the year, with deliveries starting on the east coast.
http://www.fenderbender.com/FenderBender/March-2011/Chevy-Volt-sales-fall-in-February/
The Volt needs to be charged every 30 miles. 30 miles. That's about how far I travel to and from work.
I saw the Volt for the first time today and while they are asking for $41,000+ for the car, it's not much better than a smart car. It is tiny, not much trunk room, not much leg room or back seat room. It's a horrible car in every sense of the imagination.
And so, this is the liberals answer to solve green house emissions? Heaven help us.
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That bad? I haven't seen one in person, but it looks great in MotorTrend and Automobile Magazines, and got both of their year's best awards. Guess I'll have to see one myself.
ReplyDeleteActually Jamie, it is really small. The back seat can only be used as a trunk.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am sure it is a very heavy car, with all the batteries it has, in the front of the car and in the trunk. The trunk is rather small as well- it's not deep because batteries in the bottom of the trunk and not could not hold more than a suit case or two. But if you are only 30 miles between charges, I guess you don't need suit cases.
Dan wins the Dolt award - on Volt. Dan, you're a great example of a blogger who doesn't get his facts straight before shooting off his silly mouth.
ReplyDeleteThe next month Fenderbender.com stated Volt sales were up - and every story to now ( June ) about Volt sales being slow are so nuts because the Volt is only sold in 7 states - and for the first part of 2011 3,000 had to be built for dealers nationwide to demo, 10,000 units were ordered by GE, another 1300 by the government - and those don't reflect in the total retail units delivered to actual customers like you and me ( and no I don't work for GM ).Conservatives still fuming about "Government Motors" ) and naysayers who hated GM from the last picture are eager to get their hits in while they can in the disinformation dept.. I think Dan here is only guilty of reading and relaying their false info. I'm a Republican and I believe folks should know the truth.
Motor Trend Got 127 mpg for the week they drove the Chevy Volt, then named it Car Of The Year based upon it's ability to do what NO OTHER CAR HAS EVER DONE - and that is travel 30 - 50 miles on zero gas and then silently switch over automatically to it's gas engine ( generator ) and take you up to 340 miles.The Volt is not an "electric car" - it's an extended range PHEV that won't leave you stranded like an electric car can. It seats 4 comfortably. On gas it's about as efficient as a second gen Prius - But since most Americans don't travel over 40 miles per day - they'll do that ON NO GAS AT ALL.
Dan assumes lots about the Volt and blabs garbage without doing any research at all. It's OK Dan, most women and some men know a car has wheels and you put gas in a hole in it's side and when you turn a key it goes - and that seems about what you know. Volt sits upon the Chevy Cruze architecture, yet it's a hatchback with rear seats that fold down - thus you can make trips to Home Depot with it or carry two golf bags and three large Samsonites back there if you wish. It's only "drawback" is that it seats four, not five, like most compact sedans since the battery pack sits low down the middle of the car. Yes the batteries are revolutionary because they are thermally controlled for hot and cold weather and they're lithium which is state-of-the-art. 400 lbs. of batteries in a car bigger than a Corolla with 5 doors which weighs less than a Mustang - Got that Dan?
Has Dan driven a Prius? I own one. I get good mpg at the cost of driving a tin wagon that handles like a Big Wheel. Prius was groundbreaking tech a few years ago - but the American Volt leapfrogs it handily. If Dan drove a Volt he would find it luxurious in silence - eerily quiet on the highway - handles like a regular car, is quick and is full of luxuries like heated seats, Bluetooth, 5 years of free OnStar , voice-activated everything, XM, NAV a 30 gig HDD, cell phone autostart - info and charge control and more....This is at a pricepoint of many cars foreign and domestic which get 20-27 mpg and put out 90% more emissions. Global warming may be naturally cyclical but do you like breathing car exhaust?
The Volt is American made and BMW just hired the GM lead engineer of the Volt project to design it's electric and PHEV autos. Volt's price will decrease as economies of scale kick in and it is available to be purchased in all 50 states. What other auto can so radically decrease the amount of money we each spend on fuel we purchase from countrys that hate us?
Currently we Americans send $1 billion dollars per day to the Middle East for crude oil. Add the hundreds of billions we have spent and priceless lives being lost securing our ACCESS TO FOREIGN OIL FIELDS.
(Dan there still feels we are in Iraq to spread democracy.) :)
James - Buy a Volt - kiss Abdul goodbye
Haha, thanks for the funny response.
ReplyDeleteFirst, i am too tall to be sit in a Prius and certainly in a Volt.
Further, it is not a family car and trunk space sucks. It's kind of like the Smart Car- they are so square, you just want to tip it over.
My electric bills are high enough, thank you, without throwing a electric car into the mix and our electric rates are going up thanks to Obama and the liberals.
I'm glad you enjoy your Prius and Volt and more power to you, but these cars are not made for the family or for people bigger than Lady Gaga.