[dfwgator]

I did notice that there is a lot less smug in the air.

[ClearCase_guy]

Coal powered cars? I don’t want one.

[Fiddlstix]

[FoxInSocks]

So how much of my money was wasted on this stupid idea?

[Skywise]

Like all socialist ideas... they fail - but then they weren’t true socialist idea then... because only socialist ideals succeed.

[sparklite2]

can go only 20 or so miles on electricity

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...and AAA batteries are EXPENSIVE.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

What a POS. GM gets what they deserve and I hate it for the workers.None of the gm plants are closing in china.All the more reason to never own a gm product.

[Seaplaner]

While it was a financial loser, it did what was intended,” said retired GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, who shepherded the Volt into production.

One suspects that Mister Lutz lies without worry about that pesky conscience thingy.

My questions are more focused regarding potential influence of Dem politics re the 'volt', but that's just me being suspicious.

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[Henchster]

Ah, let's remember who was the ecologic-economic "genius" who helped foist this turd on America:

[willk]

Our 2017 Volt is on it’s last month of a 3 year lease. It has been a great car. Not one problem in 30,000 miles. Fun car to drive with the instant silent torque. Electric cars are the future. I just test drove a Chevy Bolt where you can drive in stop and go traffic with one pedal (not having to take your foot off the accelerator). In a few years most electric cars will have a 400 mile range with 30 minute charging. An electric 4WD pickup is coming out next year with a 400 mile range and O-60 in 3.5 seconds. Embrace the technology.

[spokeshave]

Steam power is the way to go

[Spruce]

-40 Fahrenheit in 5mph traffic is no place for a battery-powered vehicle.

[Zhang Fei]

[GM, he said, should have spent more to promote the car. “I’ve been really surprised at the lack of marketing,” he said. “I would not have an electric car if I did not have that gas engine.”]

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I don’t think this Volt owner understands that every Volt sold lost money for GM. It wanted to sell just enough to help the blended gas mileage of its cars sold in the US meet CAFE standards. Marketing the heck out of the car would have eaten into GM’s profitability if it had actually sold more Volts.

[thegagline]

“”Five years from now when I’m not president anymore, I’ll buy one and drive it myself,” Obama promised 1,600 auto workers at a United Auto Workers union event in Detroit”. BHO February 2012

Sure hope Onama kept his promise.

[Celtic Conservative]

I saw one in a parking lot with dealers plates on it. Asked the driver if it was one of them new coal powered cars. Guy said ,”no, it’s electric”. I then asked him where the electricity came from. He got mad and walked away.

CC

[Daniel Ramsey]

I want steampunk cars and trucks!
Got lots of trees, pallets,and burnable garbage that i can mulch into presto type of lohgs or pellets.

Or best yet.....

Build my own nuclear fusion heat source, in time everyone will have a Mr.Fusion.

[Texas Fossil]

Volt Dolt

[Darksheare]

They keep calling it an electric car when it is a poorly designed and implemented hybrid.

[hattend]

I guess Obama didn’t buy a fleet for his faily.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Last summer we visited family near Palm Springs. I witnessed a very amusing sight of one of those $100,000 Tesla’s driving in 120 degree weather with ALL THE WINDOWS down. I finally realized that they did not have enough ‘energy’ and could not turn on the air conditioning and make it home. I laughed all the way to the gas station (air conditioning on full blast) where I filled up my gas tank with renewable energy (it renews to 100% every time I fill up the tank). L u