Chevrolet Volt Fatigue Setting In

Business Week ^ | 07/30/2010 | David Welch

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The Chevy Volt Dance

Big government awesomeness!

Updating 60s Soviet chic with a distinctly 80s feel.

[Ditto]

Or, it could be that the car sucks. A 40 mile range after somehting like an 8 hour charge (@ 110 V)?

From what I understand, you have to install a 220 V line to charge it. 110 won't work.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

$40,000 for a volt?.....FUBO!....I can buy a classic car with a new engine and drive train for less!

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

And it STILL has a fossil fuel burning engine on board in the form of a "generator" for recharging the batteries "on the go".

Except, IIRC, it doesn't recharge the batteries. It merely generates enough electricity to power the traction motors.

Given that it still costs twice as much as a Cruze (same car, conventional powertrain) and more than a Prius even after the tax credit, I predict the Volt will be a flop.

[Truth is a Weapon]

Are you talking about the car or 0bama?

[rahbert]

hyperbole and overstatement is a hallowed FR tradition.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Actually, a 110 volt connection will work -- it would just take a lot longer.

The Volt is heavily subsidized; ipso facto it is not worthy of being sold on the free market. There are plenty of reasons to criticize it -- don't water down the criticism by attacking with easily falsified arguments.

[ichabod1]

The Volts wagon. The REvolt. The Bolt. The Dolt. The ...

[WayneS]

I read an article yesterday that said it takes about 8 hours to charge at 110 V; or 5 hours at 220.

[winner3000]

It is reVOLTing what Obama did in GM’s bankruptcy, basically stealing from bondholders in favor of his union chiefs buddies.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

BOYCOTT CHEVROLET!

[SeekAndFind]

RE: $40,000 for a volt?.....FUBO!....

The actual price is $41,000, but you don’t have to pay that much -— You get a government rebate for $7,500 just for purchasing their car.

[maggief]

[Claud]

Yeah, what IS the deal with the heater on this thing, when there’s no heat of combustion available to warm the cabin? Does anyone know how it works?

Don’t tell me that the heater in this thing is an energy-hogging electric.

[Ditto]

You could be right.

[maggief]

“It is reVOLTing what Obama did in GM’s bankruptcy, basically stealing from bondholders in favor of his union chiefs buddies.”

Thank me very much.

[norraad]

Gasoline will always rule.

For many reasons, not the least of which is plenty of heat in seconds on a cold winter day!

[pennyfarmer]

I can’t wait to laugh at friends and family that fall for the voltswagen.

[preacher]

G.M.’s Electric Lemon

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/opinion/30neidermeyer.html?_r=3&ref=opinion

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Oh dayum! Michelle gonna go Aunt Esther all over his ass for cruising with a white chick!