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.
“Who is propagandizing?”
That little part where they state:
“April was mostly good news for the Chevrolet Volt.”
Then a little further down, they persist in their monthly fantasy that more Volts would sell, if only they could make more:
“Additionally, with focus away from the Cadillac ELR, inventories finally ballooned up to a more reasonable level in April with the Volt’s Hamtramck assembly line bumping out cars much faster than they could be sold for a change.”
What an objective story would say:
GM has dumped half a billion dollars into the plant alone, for the Volt, and its year to year sales aren’t even holding even. The Volt is following a sales pattern almost identical to that of the Pontiac Aztec, which was properly cancelled. However, GM has chosen not to kill the Volt program like it did to the Aztec, and is planning to dump another half billion into their plant.
I don’t pay much attention to the full EV vehicles. My monthly fascination is with the Volt, which is a terrible idea.