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If Romney wins, will the Chevrolet Volt die?

Posted on 10/22/2012 7:18:31 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill

I have Time of Use electric power billing and pay only $0.055 per KWH, so the Volt will cost me less than $200 per year to charge. I also rarely drive more than 20 miles per day.

I will lease/but one if they are giving them away, and the thought of owning a limited run car is attractive.

But, If (when) Romney wins, will he shut the line forever and make the current inventory collectable?


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1 posted on 10/22/2012 7:18:33 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill
If (when) Romney wins, will he shut the line forever

If the president can do that, we might as well all move to Cuba where the dictator makes every industrial decision by this personal whim.

2 posted on 10/22/2012 7:20:25 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("You know I'm always there for you," he told her, as he hurried out the door.)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

For all intensive purposes....it’s already dead.


3 posted on 10/22/2012 7:21:11 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: SumProVita; Andy from Chapel Hill
For all intensive purposes....it’s already dead.


4 posted on 10/22/2012 7:23:13 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (If there is ever another revolution, we need to decorate telephone poles with the MSM.)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

RE: If Romney wins, will the Chevrolet Volt die?

Does pulling tax payer money out of a business mean that the business dies?

Well, the answer is this — If they produce a car that people WANT, they’ll thrive. If not, they deserve to die.

In which case, why not focus your resources on building something people WANT?


5 posted on 10/22/2012 7:23:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

I think the Chevy Volt will die regardless of who wins. There isn’t enough of a demand for a $40k car that goes 35 miles on a charge.

If the markets are allowed to work, the Volt will die. Only when battery technology makes a great leap in storage capacity, cost, and speed to charge will it be viable.


6 posted on 10/22/2012 7:23:43 AM PDT by PDGearhead (Obama's lack of citizenship)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

Don’t forget to factor in that a little after 10 years (depending on your usage,) you’ll wind up having to replace the entire battery. At current prices, that’s about $3,000 plus labor.


7 posted on 10/22/2012 7:23:49 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: SumProVita
"For all intensive purposes..."

What in the world does that mean?

8 posted on 10/22/2012 7:23:59 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: Renderofveils

I don’t think I’d put $3000 in a 10- year-old car, anyway, I heard battery replacement was $19,000.


9 posted on 10/22/2012 7:26:32 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: diogenes ghost

He’s series ?


10 posted on 10/22/2012 7:26:42 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

He doesn’t have to shut the line. Nor should he have the authority to do so.

But, he can instruct Federal agencies to spend their money efficiently, so the military or embassies don’t throw away their budget on overpriced Volts. GM can then decide if the production line is worth keeping open.


11 posted on 10/22/2012 7:27:57 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: FrankR
I don’t think I’d put $3000 in a 10- year-old car, anyway, I heard battery replacement was $19,000.

It'll vary, price-wise. If you've got salvageable cells, it's going to be around the $3k mark. If you've got to replace all four cell modules (about $1.4k each) you're looking around $8-9k.
12 posted on 10/22/2012 7:28:44 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: Tax-chick

I think a lot of FReepers are going to be rather disappointed at how many of the green fantasies keep rolling along fueled by taxpayer dollars.


13 posted on 10/22/2012 7:28:50 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: diogenes ghost

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:for_all_intensive_purposes


14 posted on 10/22/2012 7:28:53 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

The Volt has already committed suicide...


15 posted on 10/22/2012 7:29:57 AM PDT by moovova (I work well with others, as long as they leave me alone.)
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To: Renderofveils

That doesn’t sound too bad to me.


16 posted on 10/22/2012 7:30:16 AM PDT by Hildy (F"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - Socrates)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill
“I have Time of Use electric power billing and pay only $0.055 per KWH”

My electric rates are double that.

17 posted on 10/22/2012 7:30:28 AM PDT by tobyhill (Obamacare, the final nail in the US coffin.)
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To: Tax-chick

Obama’s car czar fast-tracked the Volt and sidelined the small V-8 Duramax Clean Diesel engine for the pick=up truck line.

Given how much GM owes to the Government and how Obama set the Czar precedent, I have no doubt that a Romney White House could reach into GM and rearrange their priorities.

Also, there is a lot of talk that GM will need a restructuring to survive long-term. The terms and conditions of the Government’s ownership will be on the table. That is another opportunity for Romney to influence spending money on premature projects.


18 posted on 10/22/2012 7:31:00 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill
Could be worth big money someday.


19 posted on 10/22/2012 7:32:02 AM PDT by McGruff (I smell DESPERATION in the air.)
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To: SumProVita; diogenes ghost

simply an uneducated person’s mishearing of the idiom. A malapropism.


20 posted on 10/22/2012 7:34:21 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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