Actual use tests show that the Volt only goes 25-miles on a charge.
The Waverly was eventually abandoned due to lack of sales because of its limited range.
Now, if 60-miles per charge was too little for a 1902 society, why the hell would GM think America would go gah-gah crazy over an over-priced, lead-sled, that only goes the equivilent of one gallon of gas would take it if it had an internal combustion engine?
Sure, it has that little lawn-mower engine [sic] to cripple it on over to the next (virtually non-existent) charging station, but even the little lawn-mower engine [sic] requires HI-TEST gasoline...and only has a limited range, and, it does not recharge the battery at all.
No one wants to hire an expensive electriction to come and install the charging apparatus in their home, and even if they did, chances are the battery is not going to die in their driveway, but on some road - say, about 25-miles from their home, and your brand new charging station. Can you say "Tow Truck"?
Now the price; $41,000? You've got to be kidding! Battery replacement, over $8,000 (not couting labor)? Would you going to ever put $8,000 into a three-year old car?
What, exactly, would be the trade-in value on, say, a three year old Volt with a dead battery? Never mind the wrecker bill to have it towed to the dealership.
The Volt is supposedly built on a Chevy Cruise frame/body...OK then, what is the trade-in value of a three-year-0ld Chevy Cruse? We're not talking BMW here, it's a Chevy Cruise compact. So trading in a Chevy volt with a dead battery would be worse than trading in the Cruise with no motor.
obama has taken our homes, our retirement, our jobs, our savings, and our energy...and now we are supposed to laughingly invest in obama's folly to support his union buddies, which will evenually cost us upwards of $45 grand.
We're supposed to visit grandma at Christmas (providing obama doesn't outlaw Christmas in his next term) over 100 miles away...which involves four, 8-hour battery charges, and that's ONE WAY? To go to Grandma's and back will take over 64 hours on the road, which will include food, motel bills, and whatever you'd pay to get it recharged, IF there happened to be four recharging stations along the route.
No, GM does NOT want to ask me what is wrong with the VOLT...the VOLT is a JOKE, a canard, and another one of the three-card-monte president's insults to our intelligence, our freedom, and our integrity.
The Volt is too small to be useful (no back seat becase of the battery) and too large to be a paperweight, so I can readily see why sales suck.
General Motors, I knew ye when...Government Motors, I don't want to know at all.