two ways to store 25 to 40 miles of energy.
This tax credit is for all EV’s that qualify and includes the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf.
Working link:
http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/03/08/another-%E2%80%9Ccrapload%E2%80%9D-chevy-volt-nonsense
If they understood math and how to calculate total dollars per mile of ownership, they wouldn't be Volt owners.
does the gas engine in a Volt recharge the battery? or drive the car?
I haven’t seen this ad with the dizzy broad , but I have seen the one were some Leftist looking middle age guy tells me he never loved a car before, but he loves his Dolt. If you are that old and never owned one car you loved, you probably spent most of your life riding your bike to Green Peace rallies in your youth. The ad makes me laugh at it’s pathetic message.
The Chevy Volt has a battery replacement cost of $8,000. Now, proponents will argue that large scale manufacturing will bring this cost down; I argue the opposite. IMHO, the Chevy Volt is being REJECTED by the consumer, thus the replacement battery will not be a common part - it will be on par with a "collector's item", far exceeding the $8,000 price tag of today. Even if the price were to remain constant, and this part was available - given the overall reliability and depreciation of Chevy vehicles, my question is this "Will an $8,000 battery replacment exceed the value of the car?". I submit that the cost of the replacement battery will effectively "total" the car out. It will be most cost effective to scrap the car, than replace the battery.
Or, in simple terms - for $8,000 you can basically rebuild the engine, transmission and still do substancial body and interior work on the Toyota Camry. Essentially, if you put $8,000 into your 8 yr old Camry, you will have a very well restored car. New engine, new transmission, new interior, new paint, new tires, new exhaust. If you put that same $8,000 into the Volt - you get a new battery. Same worn paint, body, exhaust, engine, transmission, seats, carpet, etc.
I just see no justification for the Volt at all.
According to Modica’s calculations, it would take about 20 years of $2/day gas savings to make up for the $15,000 premium in price over, say, the Chevy Cruze (which is built on the same chassis as the Volt).
That’s a crapload of time to make back your investment!
What are they driving? Mid Sized GM SUV...
Some clinton era politcian (mccauliff?) was on MSNBC this am pushing the absurdity of electric cars and the fiction that jobs in the usa is the same as profits.
There are no adults in the green industries.
GM has already halted production of the Volt.
Let’s see, average energy cost of 8¢ per mile. My 2007 Sonata has averaged about 26 mpg thus far. At $3.69 per gallon, that puts fuel at @14¢ per file.
All other variables being equal (which they most certainly are not) the Dolt comes out $6,000 ahead in 100k miles. Well below the replacement cost of the battery alone. Which is not proven to go 100k, yet.
My Sonata cost about $20K (including the full 100K ten year warranty). Repair/maintenance costs have been almost negligible. I have driven the car on long trips over half the US, in comfort. Do that in a Dolt.
The financial numbers on this car are so bad that it makes a damning statement on the education and reasoning levels of so many Americans that they swallow this “crapload” of lies. The disgusting ignorance of the average American is why (though I will never stop fighting the left) I believe we conservatives are fighting a losing battle.
When I was 10 years old I had a grasp of math that would have made me LOL at a Volt owner. And obviously I was ahead of the current occupant of the WH, and a good percentage of the congress.
two ways to store 25 to 40 miles of energy.
I think we just found a new name for this vehicle: the “Chevy Crapload.”
“These guys at Government Motors just continue to outdo themselves.”
It’s the natural outcome of Party Propaganda in the same vein as Baghdad Bob, China, and Russia.
They have to pump out the crapfest for the leadership, even if they don’t believe it themselves.
I’d take one if they paid me for taking it off their hands...
Yup - that's what's wrong with the 'Volt' in a nutshell. It's government made, government designed, at space shuttle prices.
To wit - Endeavour cost us 150 billion dollars to build, it was launched 25 times at an average cost of two billion per trip. Total cost of building and using, 250 billion dollars.
NASA has no competitors - they are now nearly out of business - thanks to this president - that wants to provide us with cars that have space shuttle-like operating prices - perhaps we will soon see Government Motors going away again.