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What’s ailing the Chevy Volt? (They asked so fire away!)
WASHINGTON POST ^
| 3/4/2012
| Brad Plumer
Posted on 03/04/2012 5:24:47 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: Brownie63
The Chevy in my driveway is the last Chevy on the premises.... go pound sand ZERO....
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posted on
03/04/2012 5:55:27 PM PST
by
ptsal
(E)
To: twister881
Pretty much!
Saw one in my area a month or so back.
Driven by a “teen or twenty something” looking lady, yapping on a cellphone.
She near drove into me head on.
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posted on
03/04/2012 5:56:16 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
To: lurk
Don’t forget, when the battery is exhausted at 30 miles, you can switch to the ICE. It’s a plug-in hybrid.
So you have the privilege of paying for two powerplants in the car: the batteries + electric motor and the ICE. Might be easier to tow a spare car around town.
To: tobyhill
... the Volts only caught fire days or weeks after extreme lab testing ... Huh? Was that guy's house that burned down an "extreme lab?"
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posted on
03/04/2012 5:58:19 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
("If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost." --Winston Churchill)
To: tobyhill
Look dumb asses no one wants a car that can go only 40 miles then need 8 hours to refuel...and pay a premium for it
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:04:25 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(American is Barack Oaken)
To: tobyhill
I’ve been been so detrameanend. twas horrirribble.
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:04:56 PM PST
by
allmost
To: MissMagnolia
Best line I’ve seen so far was the one congratulating GM for inventing the external combustion engine.
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:06:33 PM PST
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: tobyhill
The energy contained in all of the Volt's batteries equals about 1 GALLON of gasoline. Pound for pound, hydrocarbon fuels contain much more energy than any current battery technology. The trick is to extract as much energy out of a pound of fuel as the state of the art will allow. The closest technology we have that will work is fuel cells. Hydrocarbons are a storage medium of energy, basically stored sunshine. Chemical to electrical to torque at the wheels with the least loses during the conversion process will win. This is an engineering exercise clouded by political and financial interests. The solution to any engineering exercise is to attack the problem from all angles.
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:07:35 PM PST
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: tobyhill
Volt’s problem is price.
Prius is proved by over 1 million sales, at much lower cost.
To: truth_seeker
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:11:01 PM PST
by
allmost
To: Seaplaner
One indication that even the left is acknowledging what a disaster the Volt is comes from the fact that a couple of days ago their online sock-puppets started repeating talking points claiming the car was designed during the Bush administration. When they start blaming it on Bush, you know it’s a failure.
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:12:49 PM PST
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: tobyhill
It is not just the volt. It is my severe distaste for Commie Motors. No Gumermint Motors, No Italian Chevy/Dodge for me. POUND SAND ZEROIST MARXISTS!!!
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:17:31 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(Tim Tebow will never be successful in the NFL - Leftist journalists who have sold their souls)
To: ArmstedFragg
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:18:57 PM PST
by
MissMagnolia
(Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
To: tobyhill
Maybe it’s because instead of that new car smell it’s got the Lord-of-the-Flies-Obama-pheromone odor about it.
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:19:15 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: tobyhill
(They asked so fire away!)I see what you did there....
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:19:28 PM PST
by
ponygirl
(Be Breitbart.)
To: tobyhill
If you wanted a decent ultra efficient car, then you probably should buy a Prius which costs less than half as much, has proven reliability, doesn’t spontaneously burst into flame and is built and guaranteed by Toyota which is a much better and more honest company than Government Motors.
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:21:03 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
To: tobyhill; potlatch; PhilDragoo; bitt
Sorry, GM was dead to me as soon as dealerships were stolen and stockholders cheated.
There wasn’t much news coverage at the time, and crickets ever since. Does anyone know if there are lawsuits working their way up the legal system. This is a Constitutional issue, after all.
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:21:18 PM PST
by
ntnychik
To: tobyhill
How much does it cost to recharge per mile?
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:22:15 PM PST
by
Raycpa
To: TigersEye
Is that really what it looks like? Somehow I haven’t seen any ads for it. That looks like it was already kind of crushed from the top.
To: RetiredTexasVet
Show me your math on the Prius costing less than half as much, please.
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posted on
03/04/2012 6:27:08 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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