Easy.
It's a bad idea.
Do I get a prize?
One of the potentially greatest advantages of an electric car is it’s simplicity.
But I’m sure this Volt thing is an overly complex contraption because it can’t make up it’s mind whether to be a gas car or an electric car.
Reminds how early steamships kept being built with sailing rigs or how some were equipped with both paddle wheels and propellers.
If you can’t keep it simple, forget it.
What happens to the batteries in a Texas Summer with 110 degrees or a Wisconsin Winter at -30 degrees?
It’s made by Obama supporting union thugs, Muslim Obama wants to force me buy one, it’s based on lies and corrupt politicians, it won’t tow my 8,000# boat, it won’t tow my Airstream trailer, it’s production is financed by stolen money, the dems like it, there is no place to put hay in it, it makes anyone in it look stupid....... AND it’s not a Toyota Tundra.
A Volt is a great car for a Democrat.
Short trip radius, useless in an emergency like when Obama’s friends set off ‘suitcase’ nukes and you have to evacuate. Unable to tow anything. Just an all around piece of crap suitable for crap-heads.
$25,000 over any other small car like it, all to go only as far as 1 gallon of gas could take it, and fueled by electricity made from coal power plants they want to shutdown in the first place. Some how they call that “green”. I call it dumber than dirt. Liberals always are.
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Not as many dolts exist to buy O-bum’s Volt as was expected!
Way too expensive, has about enough range to pickup movies at Redbox but not take them back, and it tends to explode.
Other than that, it’s gold Pony Boy, just like you.
Yes, a much bigger engineering budget was spent on it. Yes, a lighter, fancier battery chemistry was employed in it. Yes, it meets modern crash-test and other safety standards.
But for all that, I could buy a 1970 Ford Courier, replace the engine with the motor out of an electric forklift, pack the bed with standard-tech lead-acid batteries (with helper springs added to the rear suspension), and probably get comparable performance.
And have maybe a quarter of the cost invested.
I heard the Volt was a concept car that Obama pushed into production to “create/save” jobs. If it wasn’t for the government an General Electric, sales would be next to nothing. We pulled up next to a Volt at a traffic light the other day. We started pointing and laughing. The occupant turned right at the “no right turn on red” - couldn’t take it. Our car was a Toyota Camry Hybrid.
In addition to all the other points already made, I saw in the paper last week an ad for a 2012 Chevy Cruze, rated at 36 or 38 mpg, for $17,849. You can buy a lot of gas for $23,151. Or even $15,651, after the $7,500 of tax credit money.