the Chevy Volt ...was $43,000. The dealership also gets a tax credits of $7,500 per Volt... Will GM earn a profit on Volt sales ? ... The Volt costs $81,000 to build per unit and has sold 493 units in April for a loss of $38,000 per unit, paid for by taxpayers ... I would love it if the private sector developed a workable, cost effective electric car (even though we plug the car into a grid with power generated by coal burning plants). But the Volt seems like something directly out of the old Soviet Union where Stalin would...