We have a closet liberal radio announcer here in Atlanta on WSB 750 in the morning (Scott Slade) who takes his 40 pieces of silver each morning touting how “wonderful” his Volt is......
He’s the same guy who after Katrina hit and there was a temporary disruption in the pipeline to Atlanta triggered a one-day gas run panic here that drove gas up over $6/gallon.
His story was essentially untrue and all hype...
Analyze his show over a month and you’d conclude he’s a damned liberal.
I went to the local Chevy dealer the other day.
“That Volt is a nice looking car”, I told the salesman.
“That’s our popcorn machine”, he replied.
The Chevy Volt is an experiment that has failed badly. GM would have been better served by bringing back the EV-1 vehicle they had made for a market survey. The first EV-1 models had a lead-acid battery, later models had a NiMH battery set, with higher energy content, and longer range (100 miles, up to 140 miles). If the Volts used even the battery system from the EV-1, they would be in far better position and have plainly superior usability, but apparently somebody else has the patents on the battery system.
But GM was never that enthusiastic about this technology at the time, and it sort of died on the vine.
No mention of Volts bursting into flames?
Volt=Vega
Is Akerson doing the planning or is he passing on what he is given by the relevant government bureau? Is a bureaucrat ever really responsible for anything?
The Volt is just Obama’s (and Government Motors’) version of Hitler’s VW.
Volkswagon, for those who may not speak German means “People’s Car”.
If the Volt is to be our VW, expect to see more Americans returning to the “glory” days of the horse and buggy!!
A Volt starts at $39,000. A Toyota Prius plug-in starts at $32,000. A standard model Prius starts at $24,000. The Prius c starts at $19,000. Why would anyone ever buy a Volt?
To make the Volt competitive, Dumbo will issue an Executive Order that 1) all gasoline-powered cars be restricted to gas tanks holding no more than 2 gallons, and 2) that all gas filler caps have time locks preventing them from being opened more than once in any 8 hour period. This EO will be retroactive to all vehicles currently operating.
Hmmm...maybe I shouldn’t be giving the moron-in-chief any ideas?