If GM is so sure there will be demand for the Volt, why don’t they give the car to the dealers on consignment?
Oh, I see...that would require the free market decide the fate of the electric car - can’t have that now can we?!
There was a time when dealerships HAD to sell a quota of unpopular crap cars (like the Volt) in order to get the supply of popular cars and trucks that people actually wanted to buy.
And if that poor dealer didn’t move enough of the crap cars - they got squeezed out by bigger dealers who could absorb the losses by having too much junk in their inventory.
I imagine things are pretty much the same in that industry.