The propaganda: April sales are up!
The reality: The Volt is still behind 2013 in year to year sales.
How does GM respond to these terrible sales? Why, by throwing $449 million more dollars into the shredder! BTW, per this link:
http://insideevs.com/gm-announces-449-million-next-gen-chevrolet-volt-two-future-vehicles/
This means GM will have invested a BILLION DOLLARS into the Hamtramck plant for EV vehicles.
To date, GM has sold 58,000 Volts...highly subsidized by you and me. Currently that's a plant investment of $17k a car....hard to recoup if they're actually losing money on each car.
Who is propagandizing?
The same site is reporting both facts; Volt sales up in April vs April 2013 but down YTD vs 2013.
Last year 25,011 plug in vehicles were sold through April.
This year 28,867 plug in vehicles have been sold through April with Ford and Smart still left to report.
Fact is plug in hybrids like the Volt and ELR have been leapfrogged by fully electric automobiles.
Thanks for posting, lacrew. Interesting.
Government tax incentives for purchasing a Volt…
http://www.chevrolet.com/chevy-volt-electric-car-tax-credit.html