Posted on 08/02/2011 5:30:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DETROIT -- For 2011, General Motors' return to electric-powered vehicles has been a sellout success, the U.S. automaker said Monday.
GM said the production run for 2011 was set at 4,488 for the hybrid Chevrolet Volt and they've all been sold.
Through June, GM had sold 3,071 Volts, while Nissan had sold 3,894 Leafs.
GM, meanwhile, has increased its production schedule to 16,000 for 2011 and plans to make 60,000 in 2012. Eventually, GM plans to make 100,000 Volts per year.
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A friend of mind has a Volt. He told me yesterday that he is getting 144 mpg.
Bear in mind that he only drives 10 miles to work so most everything he does is on the battery.
What the he!!s wrong with Immelt?? How can he be the CEO of a major international corporation and embrace a Marxist like a Saturday night whore???
I’ve yet to see one volt in my town of over 300,000 people.
OH but GM sells in that nitch market. Remember the 50K pick up? SSR I think they sold 4 or 5 of those. What a crock. Why not build something you can sell a million of?
Curiously, so is the Republican Congress.
I know, 0 must be giving volt loans for people who donate—in Illinois and Michigan.
The saddest part of this is the fools who write articles like this actually think they’re helping, and the people who read and believe it are quite content having the wool pulled over their eyes. I’m quite convinced that what passes for journalists today know that there’s another story out there, but to actually pursue it would damage something they see as obviously a good thing: the movement toward A Green Economy. At the same time, for the readers to question the standard media meme causes great discomfort. Questioning what we think we know to be true can shatter the nice little world in which we want to live.
I see the latter in my sister-in-law. She’s an intelligent person, yet she refuses to face what would be obvious were she not content to do the intellectual equivalent of shoving her fingers in her ears and yelling, “I can’t hear you! La, la, la, la, la...” Facing the fact that she’s been lied to, and has allowed it to happen for so many years is beyond what she’s willing to shoulder. Being wrong is far easier than admitting wrong.
Did they make any money on them? Could the Volt compete without the subsidies and other incentives to get people to buy them?
Go check the parking lot at major gov-mint offices, any General Electric office, these were the mandated “buyer’s”.
ML/NJ
LOL! Sad, but true. Thanks for the laugh.
yeah..
Another Satisfied CustomerTM
In 1988, GM sold “only” 40,000 Pontiac Fieros—after finally getting them designed right—so they shut that model down.
GM employees here in Detroit were some of the only ones buying the VOLT because GM put chargers in their parking structure.
GE agreed to “buy” many of the remaining VOLTs for their fleet cars.
Car Dealers were “buying” VOLTS to get the $7,000 tax break.
“Real World” sales were still dismal. I know people who work in the GM corporate offices and its pretty common knowledge that GM is not very happy with the VOLT. The increase in production has nothing to do with DEMAND...its coming mainly from Washington.
Many Federal Offices are required to be partly “green” in their purchases...The VOLT will help them meet those requirements.
The Feds are telling the FEDS to buy their own cars, its a self subsidizing program....
we have non-union made cars.
Almost all of them WERE sold to Federal agencies.
This article is Journalistic Malpractice of the highest order!
Behind the misleading headline, the actual numbers are more than a little underwhelming.
Erm, a significant number of those are still on the road today, over half a century later. Not to mention that the original design specs called for a simple, robust vehicle that was repairable with ordinary hand tools at low cost, and it delivered. I doubt very highly that many Volts will still be on the road even 15 years from now.
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