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G.M. Puts $41,000 Price Tag on the Volt (If you had the money, would you buy?)
New York Times ^ | 07/27/2010 | Nick Bunkley

Posted on 07/27/2010 12:04:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

DETROIT — The Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in car capable of driving about 40 miles at a time on battery power without using any gasoline, will have a sticker price of $41,000 before a $7,500 federal tax credit, General Motors said Tuesday.

G.M. will also lease the Volt for $350 a month in the hopes of attracting consumers who want lower monthly payments or would hesitate to buy the vehicle until they are more comfortable with its technology.

The carmaker has begun taking orders for the Volt, using the Web site to direct consumers to a participating dealer. Dealers in selected states, including California, New York and Michigan, are scheduled to begin receiving the vehicle in November.

G.M. had kept the Volt’s price a secret since introducing the model as a concept more than three years ago, though executives had hinted that it would cost about $40,000. The price is considerably more than the Nissan Leaf, a pure electric car that goes on sale for $32,780 in December, but G.M. insists the Volt is a better value.

“You can drive it cross country, and our competition can’t do that,” Joel Ewanick, G.M.’s vice president for United States marketing, said. Nissan’s Leaf is expected to have a range of about 100 miles on a battery charge. The Volt has a small gasoline engine — which will require premium fuel, G.M. said Tuesday — that will give the car a total range of about 340 miles and allow drivers to fill up at a gas station if they cannot immediately charge the battery.

Both G.M. and Nissan are counting on the government’s $7,500 tax credit for plug-in cars to go a long way toward making their vehicles more affordable.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: electriccar; generalmotors; gm; volt
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To: Wilderness Conservative
Wait till all these hybrids and Volt’s batteries need to be replaced. There will be a lot of sticker shocked car owners. Count on seeing them for sale by the 1000s

Perhaps some enterprising type could create and sell a gas conversion for these cars. The irony would be delicious.

41 posted on 07/27/2010 12:17:43 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism - it's all shades of black.)
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To: SeekAndFind

hang on, it runs 40 miles ONLY and costs 40 grand, anyone would have to be a total nut buying one just like buying and riving one of those so called smart cars which are not smart to drive at all and actually make the person look really really dumb and stupid.


42 posted on 07/27/2010 12:17:50 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind
Those idiots have to be kidding right?
43 posted on 07/27/2010 12:17:56 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: brytlea

Shhhh...the secret is government unicorns on treadmills.


44 posted on 07/27/2010 12:18:09 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I doubt that it will pull the boat or make it through a Minnesota winter......

Are you kidding me? Those folks at Government Motors got you covered!
Prototype Volt pulling a boat:


Volt with sunroof, (solar heating of the interior saves the batteries), and the optional manual snow extraction tool.

45 posted on 07/27/2010 12:18:34 PM PDT by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: PGR88

Like giving it a range that isn’t a complete joke?

Or telling us how to charge the batteries when Stroker tells us that the price of electricity is going to necessarily skyrocket?

Or what happens when the batteries crap out and have to be replaced?

Or, how I am going to load a ton of wood and sheetrock into it?

I’ll stick with my truck, thank you very much.


46 posted on 07/27/2010 12:18:50 PM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November from my house.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I couldn’t even make it to work and back.


47 posted on 07/27/2010 12:18:56 PM PDT by Lost Highway (I don't know what the world may need but a V8 engines a good start for me)
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To: SeekAndFind

Brilliant - let’s make cars the average working Joe can’t afford. They are such morons.


48 posted on 07/27/2010 12:19:11 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: SeekAndFind

I think I will be the contrarian on this one.

If the question is “If you had the money would you buy...?” the answer is Yes.

I was one of those guys (”fools”, if you will) who 30 years ago was buying CP/M computers at $3,000 with 64K of RAM. Innovators and early adopters drive technology improvements with their investment in technology early in its life. Without them, technology doesn’t advance.

If the question was “In your current circumstance, would you buy...?” the answer is No.


49 posted on 07/27/2010 12:19:41 PM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: brytlea

Thanks...I thought it came from lightning bugs..


50 posted on 07/27/2010 12:19:54 PM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: downtownconservative

I hear ya!


51 posted on 07/27/2010 12:20:32 PM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November from my house.)
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To: SeekAndFind

40 miles wouldn’t get the job done. Maybe if there were charging stations at the Wife’s work but, not for me.


52 posted on 07/27/2010 12:20:32 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: manc

$41,000? For that I could move to Costa Rica,
live like a KING, deep sea fishing, and pay
someone else to drive me around for YEARS.


53 posted on 07/27/2010 12:20:40 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SeekAndFind

40 miles at a time? Be still my beating heart...


54 posted on 07/27/2010 12:20:48 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Haiku Guy

reminds of the fool I met who got a prius.
When I asked her why she got it she said she wanted to save money on gas.
I asked her how much she bought for it and she said she is paying 200 a month for a few years.

Asked if her older car was bought off she replied yes it was she owed nothing.

so let me get this right, she put herself into debt over 20 grand to save a few pennies on gas.
that is the thinking behind these far left nuts today


55 posted on 07/27/2010 12:21:03 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: wolfcreek

Forty miles? I’d have to stop and charge just to
get into town!!!


56 posted on 07/27/2010 12:22:14 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll never buy a goobermint motors product


57 posted on 07/27/2010 12:22:14 PM PDT by jrg
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To: SeekAndFind

Hell no, no way, no how, ever at any price!


58 posted on 07/27/2010 12:22:56 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: SeekAndFind

I can buy a nice $30k car and run it about 100,000 miles on the difference and that doesn’t even consider the higher electirc bill and battery milage limitations. Do the math yourself.


59 posted on 07/27/2010 12:23:46 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Grumpybutt

Good to see you take care of your son while he is taking care of us. I thank him for his service. Hope he enjoyed his leave.


60 posted on 07/27/2010 12:24:02 PM PDT by packrat35 (Planned Parenthood... killing more blacks than the Ku Klux Klan could have ever dreamed of.)
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