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Some Chevy Dealers Pull Plug on Volt – 2012 Sales Well Below Goals
National Legal & Policy Center ^ | January 7, 2013 | Mark Modica

Posted on 01/07/2013 9:17:53 AM PST by jazusamo

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The public gets ripped off from all sides on this fiasco.
1 posted on 01/07/2013 9:18:06 AM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo; windcliff

I’m shocked. /s


2 posted on 01/07/2013 9:19:07 AM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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Working link:

http://nlpc.org/stories/2013/01/04/some-chevy-dealers-pull-plug-volt-%E2%80%93-2013-sales-well-below-goals


3 posted on 01/07/2013 9:19:07 AM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo

Great. This kind of news usually encourages the Fraud to double down on his stupidity.


4 posted on 01/07/2013 9:23:41 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: I Drive Too Fast

I actually saw my first one yesterday. What a ugly car.


5 posted on 01/07/2013 9:23:55 AM PST by windcliff
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To: jazusamo

The problem is the government subsidizes this abortion with tax payer dollars so it is not a personel investment they expect to see a profit from, they sell a product no one wants, no one can afford and the dealers cant fix because the tools cost to much. Once again the dabble where they have not a clue, nor do they care! This like the green solyndra election payoff scam and many other criminal scams conducted with our money and still they want more of our money thru tax hikes. They all need to be brought into the townsquare and burned at the stake. Have you heard from your liberal friends yet? They should be paying their increased Obama taxes. If they did and they open thier traps just tell them they have to pay thier fair share!


6 posted on 01/07/2013 9:35:18 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Being Breitbart, Lexington / Concord, America's first gun grab attempt)
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To: jazusamo

And many of those ‘sales’ were government fleet sales.


7 posted on 01/07/2013 9:36:26 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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Yep, subsidized government sales and many subsidized leases to the public.


8 posted on 01/07/2013 9:41:36 AM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo

But they get logged down the same and then touted much like Mike Manns hockey stick graph, now in the twentieth generation of his recent revisions.


9 posted on 01/07/2013 9:44:24 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: jazusamo

I understand the prius creates large amounts of hazerdous waste to manufacture. Does anyone know if the volt causes the same issue?


10 posted on 01/07/2013 9:57:37 AM PST by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
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To: V_TWIN; jazusamo

Yes.
It does.
The battery has hazardous waste for one.
Any electric vehicle has such an issue.
Gets swept under the rug, after all it’s a green vehicle”.


11 posted on 01/07/2013 9:59:48 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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This article leaves out a few facts. Hybrids got tax subsidies and sales were very slow when they first came out. There are more plug in vehicles coming out in the next few years . The C-Max plug in version can’t keep up with demand.The 2013 Leaf will be an improvement over previous years at the same or lower price. Nissan is serious about making a successful EV car. The car and batteries will now be built in Tennessee. It will be to everyone’s benefit if EV cars succeed. The Tesla S Model can go from 0-60 in 4.4 sec with up to a 250 mile charge. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 2016 Leaf will do that at a third of the price. Like a broken clock liberals have been right twice in this countries history and they both involved automobiles. Car safety and emissions.


12 posted on 01/07/2013 10:00:00 AM PST by willk
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Chevy Volt Deathwatch Ping.


13 posted on 01/07/2013 10:12:34 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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I'm skeptical on costs and ranges of plug in EV's. I believe a huge breakthrough in technology will have to take place to get reasonably priced EV's along with appreciable incresed range.

Government Stimulus Can't Overcome 100 Years of EV Battery Shortcomings

14 posted on 01/07/2013 10:27:42 AM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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I’m looking at ‘13 fusion hybrid. Maybe energi sedan. Considering es350 but don’t want to pay that much.


15 posted on 01/07/2013 10:34:16 AM PST by Morris70
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I’m severely skeptical of EV range, NY state gets cold at times, and batteries tend not to function well in the cold.
And range would suffer.

As for teh Tesla, if teh battery runs out fo juice, it bricks.
Replacement battery is 40K bucks, and MAYBE you wil have a working vehicle.
And that 40K is all out of pocket, not covered by warranty.
Yet in an interview with Jay Leno, Elon Musk claimed that Tesla doesn’t care about how little battery juice is laft.

Don’t trust Musk, he’s a slurper of taxpayer funding which he then risks instead of his cash.
In other words, the socialist economic model of ‘business’.
-He stick the risk onto others in exchange for preferencial business treatment.


16 posted on 01/07/2013 10:45:12 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: jazusamo

It’s a Volt Revolt.


17 posted on 01/07/2013 10:45:29 AM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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Don’t trust Musk, he’s a slurper of taxpayer funding which he then risks instead of his cash.

Couldn't agree more, you're dead on the mark.

18 posted on 01/07/2013 10:50:36 AM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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Sadly, he has his fanboys that do post here.
Ran across one the other day.


19 posted on 01/07/2013 10:52:22 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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Thanks, got an ecohippy across the street who’s set on buying a volt, can’t wait till he does so i can show him how eco unfriendly it is.


20 posted on 01/07/2013 11:03:16 AM PST by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
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