Too expensive, charging may trip a breaker and then when you get up it's not charged, not enough range, what do you do with the batteries when they're used up is a real environmental problem.
Probably because of the high price. I would have considered to buy one if the price would comes down. Also I assume they would have also made some advances on the car to make it better. I guess it makes no difference now.
Because they never meant it to be in production for consumers to buy. It's too expensive, but since Politboro Chairman Bought himself a car company, (with taxpayer money) he told them to build it and they said, "Yes boss".
Did you mother ever tell you that Broccoli was good for you??? They build a fancy golf cart and throwing it unto the public like they are going to lap it up on a charge of 25 miles??? The one thats going to make the air dirtier because of all the coal used to charge them up and a couple of years down the road when you have to pay thousands to replace that battery???
Obama said that the secret service would not let him ride in one but he'll buy one in 5 years. He'll be unemployed in November and can then put his sorry butt in one. Too small, no room for Michelle.
They did a Top Gear show on two electric cars after a relatively short drive by modern standards both crapped out in traffic and took 13 hours to recharge plus finding a charging station was less than a breeze. They work this kind of stuff out and this stuff will work but for those who remember the battery life on early cell phones compared with those of today is night and day. Just the price you pay for being cutting edge and the first on the block to have one.
Granted the batteries are better but the new phones don't draw the power the old ones did. They could make the cars lighter . Hell they could make golf carts go 70 and have a decent range. Are you going to drive one in traffic? Me neither.
Because the Volt didn't sell. It was too expensive. It had mechanical problems.
But I don't believe it's 'temporary'! Sometimes it costs more to shut down a place even temporarily than it is to keep it functioning. The Volt is the new Edsel!
They didn't meet the goals they set for sales. Seriously, how many people can go out and purchase a $40,000 electric hybrid, plus have a charging station installed and see their electric bill raise to get about 33mpg after the 25-50 miles on battery?
Too expensive, charging may trip a breaker and then when you get up it's not charged, not enough range, what do you do with the batteries when they're used up is a real environmental problem.
"Does General Motors' (GM) five-week production suspension of the Chevrolet Volt because of oversupply cast doubt on whether electric cars can sell in volume at current prices? The analysts at Edmunds.com think so. "
"The oversupply of Volts suggests that consumer demand is just not that strong for these vehicles," says Lacey Plache, Edmunds chief economist. Plache notes that high price is a drawback. "The price premium on the Volt just doesn't make economic sense for the average consumer when there are so many fuel-efficient gasoline cars available, typically for thousands of dollars less."
Everybody else can make electric work, Toyota, Honda, Nissan but Chevy as usual tries to shave a few bucks off the price by eliminating a few sometimes useful accessories, like the engine and transmission.
Good! Its not pratical, natural gas is the way to go and get away from the eastern countries that are suppling oil products to our country. It may even break their dependancy on us to fight their wars and disputes for them.
Only thing missing is stations and pipelines. Even better is ethanol. It grows, you can use all the Monsanto you want to grow it faster, you can ship it like any other alcohol, conversion is very simple, but the farmers would rather throw it away than lower the price. I have an idea; stop subsidizing non-production. If they don't get paid by the Gov, they'll be an ethanol station every mile in a year.
Not a bad problem to have. Sells of the Volt has been higher and they can not get all the resources to produce the Volt. Which would you rather be, the company who manufacture the Leaf and don't have customers buying them, or Chevrolet who can not keep up with the selling of the Volt.
Actually, if you check in to the battery fires you would have found out only the Chevrolet Volt was crash tested with charged battery. GM was forced by the Obama's administration to purchase their batteries from the same manufacture that made the exploding batteried in the Compaq / HP laptops.
The liberal media trashed Chevrolet over this one fire of a Volt but did not report the whole story. The car was empty and had been setting of almost one hour after the accident and the battery cables were never cut as instructed by the new handling of Hybrids / EV vehicles. Yet 30+ Nissan Leaf's have rolled over and caught fire before the occupants could exit.
Actually the same results from three different volt crashes but the feds said it was ok. But that doesn't change the reason Volt production is being suspened, excess inventory due to SLOW SALES.
While I like the ideal of an electric car the price even with the tax credit prices it way out of the market even with $5 per gallon gas. A comprable gas car will sell for a lot less and it takes a lot of driving to make up those thousands of dollars difference in gas. A small Toyota can be purchased for around 14 to 15 thousand, or 16,000 less than a Volt. At $5.00 per gallon and 35 mpg that extra $16k for gas is much more cost effective. Figure 3,200 gallons of gas will go 112,000 miles.
and if you read the full article and whom brought this to light. It was the foreign auto manufactures and after all the T's were crossed and I dotted. It was found not to be a defect in the Chevrolet Volt but the manufacturing of the batteries.
Now to be fair, since the Nissan Leaf has hit the road, the IIHS has reported over 30 rollovers which ended in a fire. The Nissan Leaf has been found to have a higher risk of rollover then the 1985 Suzuki Samurai. Now why is it that a America company hit the news for a fire which was not cause by the design failure, but you don't hear about the number of rollovers of a Japanese death trap.
I've never even seen a Volt on the road, and your lunatic Right inside info, has them running on computer batteries and crashing in a fireball all over the road. Must be those damn Libruls all over the road in their "29 Lincoln Phaetons.
Is this a hint? ---> "GM, which is based in Detroit, announced to employees at one of its facilities that it was halting production of the beleaguered electric car for five weeks and temporarily laying off 1,300 employees. " <---make more dependent on the government, unemployment? Or are these federal employees? Oh, they are not? Then why the bail-out?
that is why Obie likes it. well giving UAW hundreds of billions buys him votes, and campaign funding. what a guy this Obama is.
But I don't believe it's 'temporary'! Sometimes it costs more to shut down a place even temporarily than it is to keep it functioning. The Volt is the new Edsel!
"Does General Motors' (GM) five-week production suspension of the Chevrolet Volt because of oversupply cast doubt on whether electric cars can sell in volume at current prices? The analysts at Edmunds.com think so. "
"The oversupply of Volts suggests that consumer demand is just not that strong for these vehicles," says Lacey Plache, Edmunds chief economist. Plache notes that high price is a drawback. "The price premium on the Volt just doesn't make economic sense for the average consumer when there are so many fuel-efficient gasoline cars available, typically for thousands of dollars less."
The short version, its not selling.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news...
The liberal media trashed Chevrolet over this one fire of a Volt but did not report the whole story. The car was empty and had been setting of almost one hour after the accident and the battery cables were never cut as instructed by the new handling of Hybrids / EV vehicles. Yet 30+ Nissan Leaf's have rolled over and caught fire before the occupants could exit.
While I like the ideal of an electric car the price even with the tax credit prices it way out of the market even with $5 per gallon gas. A comprable gas car will sell for a lot less and it takes a lot of driving to make up those thousands of dollars difference in gas. A small Toyota can be purchased for around 14 to 15 thousand, or 16,000 less than a Volt. At $5.00 per gallon and 35 mpg that extra $16k for gas is much more cost effective. Figure 3,200 gallons of gas will go 112,000 miles.
Now to be fair, since the Nissan Leaf has hit the road, the IIHS has reported over 30 rollovers which ended in a fire. The Nissan Leaf has been found to have a higher risk of rollover then the 1985 Suzuki Samurai. Now why is it that a America company hit the news for a fire which was not cause by the design failure, but you don't hear about the number of rollovers of a Japanese death trap.
Another example is no drilling in the Gulf and elsewhere.
there are a lot of votes in those bail out $$$ ...