Posted on 08/23/2012 10:02:49 AM PDT by jazusamo
We have a closet liberal radio announcer here in Atlanta on WSB 750 in the morning (Scott Slade) who takes his 40 pieces of silver each morning touting how “wonderful” his Volt is......
He’s the same guy who after Katrina hit and there was a temporary disruption in the pipeline to Atlanta triggered a one-day gas run panic here that drove gas up over $6/gallon.
His story was essentially untrue and all hype...
Analyze his show over a month and you’d conclude he’s a damned liberal.
I google “chevy volt” daily and it amazes me how many blog posts and auto sites are stumping the Volt with glorious accounts of anything and everything to do with the Volt.
Between those and supposed owner testimonials I wouldn't venture even a guess as to the dollar amount this is costing Government Motors in advertising.
I went to the local Chevy dealer the other day.
“That Volt is a nice looking car”, I told the salesman.
“That’s our popcorn machine”, he replied.
The Chevy Volt is an experiment that has failed badly. GM would have been better served by bringing back the EV-1 vehicle they had made for a market survey. The first EV-1 models had a lead-acid battery, later models had a NiMH battery set, with higher energy content, and longer range (100 miles, up to 140 miles). If the Volts used even the battery system from the EV-1, they would be in far better position and have plainly superior usability, but apparently somebody else has the patents on the battery system.
But GM was never that enthusiastic about this technology at the time, and it sort of died on the vine.
The vehicle has to able to stand on its own without taxpayer subsidies to be successful and it just isn't here yet.
No mention of Volts bursting into flames?
CEO Akerson learned his craft (lying and hyping) as a senior executive at MCI Communication which morphed into (and died as) Worldcom.
Never ONCE, has Slade, or that dipsh!t ditzy girl they have doing commercials about how great it is - no gas, just plug it in at night, unplug, go to work and then plug up and then unplug and go home... NOT ONE OF THEM MENTIONS THE COST OF AND THE FUEL USED FOR GENERATION OF THOSE “PLUG-UPS”....not a damned one of them...
Volt=Vega
I will never let GM forget the Vega that they conned me into buying. NEVER!
Is Akerson doing the planning or is he passing on what he is given by the relevant government bureau? Is a bureaucrat ever really responsible for anything?
That was a feature added for birthday parties and i didn’t catch on.
The Volt is just Obama’s (and Government Motors’) version of Hitler’s VW.
Volkswagon, for those who may not speak German means “People’s Car”.
If the Volt is to be our VW, expect to see more Americans returning to the “glory” days of the horse and buggy!!
A Volt starts at $39,000. A Toyota Prius plug-in starts at $32,000. A standard model Prius starts at $24,000. The Prius c starts at $19,000. Why would anyone ever buy a Volt?
The difference is that the “People’s Car” was affordable by the people. It also happened to be reliable.
True, but the experiment was run back in the gaslight era (circa 1880) as the Baker Electric. The Baker had nearly identical range, speed, and proportional price and sold moderately well to little old ladies from Gramercy Park. The Baker lost out in competition with internal combustion powered cars on just about all figures of merit except noise level of the propulsion system.
All electric cars will not become "everyday" transportation until the power density of battery systems has improved enough to provide equivalent range and speed to gasoline/diesel powered cars. Hybrids performance will continue to pace improvements in battery technology and may altogether replace conventional combustion only autos if prices can be brought into line (economies of scale through mass production).
Regards,
GtG
To make the Volt competitive, Dumbo will issue an Executive Order that 1) all gasoline-powered cars be restricted to gas tanks holding no more than 2 gallons, and 2) that all gas filler caps have time locks preventing them from being opened more than once in any 8 hour period. This EO will be retroactive to all vehicles currently operating.
Hmmm...maybe I shouldn’t be giving the moron-in-chief any ideas?
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