Posted on 03/10/2014 9:09:24 AM PDT by jazusamo
Volt ?
Dolt !
This ELR should turn out to be the real Dolt, a fancy Volt for twice the price.
GM is owned by Obama. GM tries to conform to “green BS” standards so it comes with a lap dog car called the ELR. The ad for it gets criticized because it makes America look elitist and snobbish. The ad, none the less, creates a lot of buzz. They sell only 58. What can GM do to keep the king happy?
Whatever he says.
When the second bankruptcy comes I pray taxpayer dollars won’t bail the UAW out again.
Talk about believing one's own propaganda. A visit to any auto show will quickly show this "philosophy" to be false. GM places its hybrid cars in the high-traffic areas of the convention halls, but the crowds walk right past with barely a glance.
Fantastic commercials, not ready for prime time technology.
I read somewhere that replacement batteries for electric cars cost $43,000. This makes no economic sense. $43,000 can buy a lot of gas for a real car.
There’s been a couple of articles recently that GM dealers have quoted ridiculous numbers but in fact they either don’t know or won’t say.
For quite a while Volt replacement batteries were estimated at $8k to &10K and I’ve read that Tesla’s were estimated somewhere around $40K.
Then there’s the crowd that insist the price will come down dramatically with increased technology and higher production but I’m not too sure of either.
Or it can buy a real car (or two)!
Make your car with a conventional engine, but make it switchable between gasoline and CNG. For short runs around town, CNG is cheap and clean-burning; use it for that. For distance travel, gasoline has the energy density you can’t do without - use it for that.And just pretend that the CNG gets converted to electricity first. Or else actually use a generator to convert the power to electricity and dedicate an electric motor to each wheel. Instant electric car!!
I like the CNG idea. Some delivery companies have converted to CNG with their local delivery vans and smaller trucks. I talked to a driver awhile back about their switchover and he said it’s worked out well for them.
GM actually had it figured out, and then the Democrats screwed it all up. They built and sold cars for different aged people. Young people wanted small, fast sporty cars. Middle Age wanted bigger cars to haul kids and go on vacations. Retirees wanted big luxury cars. The mileage standards required by the government has really reduced the big luxury cars. So, GM tried to switch from large luxury cars to smaller sports sedans that were “like BMWs”. BMW owns that market. Let GM make big luxury cars again, without the UAW, and they’ll do fine.
Therein lies the hang-up, the UAW owns a sizable chunk of GM stock and doubtful they'll be ousted.
Survival sometimes demands sacrifice. There’s no law that says the UAW must exist. It used to be that a kid in the Midwest didn’t have to have a college degree to make a decent living. The UAW has killed that. The old guys in the UAW got what they wanted, but their Grandkid’s friends can’t make a decent living.
GM hasn’t made a real Caddy in decades. I owned three back in the day when they were the size of boats.
GM is a has-been washed up American relic of better days gone by. Detroit and Flint are monuments to GM’s epic decline.
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